Tag: on set
May 20, 2013 /

I PUSHED THE SEND BUTTON – AND THE MANUSCRIPT IS TRAVELING THROUGH THE TUBES

May 19, 2013 /

THE DATE – PART V – BY GEORGE KAPLAN

THE DATE PART V: BECAUSE MY LOVE FOR YOU WOULD BREAK MY HEART IN TWO Who Am I? Who Will I Be Now? Rhodes Cardell or Will Makepeace? Those questions haunted him as the day of the date came closer and closer like the waters from an on-rushing river. A…

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May 18, 2013 /

YOURS TRULY STROLLING WITH THE MISTER WHEN SHE HAS JUST UNTIL MONDAY TO TURN IN HER BOOK TO THE EDITOR

May 17, 2013 /

MUST HAVE FLOWERS – THE WEEKEND IS COMING – AND THE MANUSCRIPT IS TO BE SENT AWAY MONDAY

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May 15, 2013 /

THE DATE PART IV – OR, BE MY BABY – BY GEORGE KAPLAN

THE DATE PART IV; OR, BE MY BABY Rhodes Cardell appeared, more or less, his usual self. He was working on a shoot which involved copious part-concealed nudity, and numerous insouciant and cheeky requests of the “would you mind pointing your delicious decolletage a little more to the right, Alyssa”…

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May 12, 2013 /

FADE OUT – PART TWO BY GEORGE KAPLAN

FADE OUT . His memories shifted to his second wife Gerda, a striking woman twenty years his senior, a woman, suffice to say, with “connections” in the industry. Another woman with a great belief in him, another woman who he had loved, but used. Yet, it was different with Gerda,…

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May 11, 2013 /

FADE OUT – PART ONE BY GEORGE KAPLAN

FADE OUT Jake Toper looked into the mirror and watched himself disintegrate. Still recognizable as the handsome, virile matinee idol of the ’30s and ’40s he may have been but the features that always leaned toward cragginess had long since begun to crumble. In a way, Toper was glad. Here…

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May 9, 2013 /

DEBBIE AND CARRIE – HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY

Doris: I was such an awful mother… what if you had a mother like Joan Crawford or Lana Turner? Suzanne: These are the options? You, Joan or Lana?

May 8, 2013 /

THE DATE PART III – BY GEORGE KAPLAN

THE DATE PART III; OR, I’M DANCING AS FAST AS I CAN A date with Isabella Arden! Rhodes Cardell’s mask of insouciant cool cracked, and the face of Will Makepeace could be glimpsed beneath. The same face, but also not. Rhodes’s expression on hearing Isabella affirm that she would, wonder…

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May 7, 2013 /

HOWARD HAWKS – GENTLEMEN PREFER BLONDES – 1953

“I’m a storyteller – that’s the chief function of a director. And they’re moving pictures, let’s make ’em move!” Howard Hawks “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” (based on the novel by Anita Loos) has been called Hawks’ only female “buddy picture”. Howard Hawks on the set of “Gentlemen Prefer Blondes” with Marilyn…

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