Palm Springs – Page 3 – BEGUILING HOLLYWOOD

July 27, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Neo-Noir! If you can’t get to Hollywood, Beverly Hills or Palm Springs get It’s in His Kiss!

Just started Vickie Lester’s It’s In His Kiss yesterday. Some 40 pages in, ‘the crime’ that would become the centerpiece of the plot was discovered. But oddly enough, if it hadn’t occurred, and never did, I wouldn’t have minded at all. Why? Because I was perfectly content and enjoying Lester’s…

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July 26, 2014 / Vickie Lester

in Hollywood…

It’s in His Kiss

July 23, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Julius Shulman: quintessential architectural photographer. The Sandpiper, designed by William Krisel, Palm Desert, 1958

July 4, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Independence Day! Have a great 4th, and if I don’t get too pruney from the pool I’ll pop in now and again…

June 30, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Interview: Vickie Lester and Why “It’s in His Kiss” | It Rains… You Get Wet.

This is Miss Marilyn Monroe at the Racquet Club in Palm Springs. She was never shy in front of the camera, but I always have been…so I say: one million thanks to Michael for the Q & A—it was a blast! If you want to kick off your shoes and…

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June 13, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Patricia Kennedy Lawford, Peter Lawford, Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe, May Britt, photo by Bernie Abramson

May 27, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Joan Collins, in the words of Mr. Lester, “Zowie!”

“Have you met my significant other?” Anne shook her head, expecting him to introduce a strapping young man, possibly, most likely, in the acting profession. Instead he blew a kiss to a taught, angular woman in her late sixties / early seventies wrapped in an Indonesian sarong. She smiled serenely.…

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April 21, 2014 / Vickie Lester

The novel, in which I spill the beans, let loose, tell all, well, all that I know about Tinsel Town. And that’s plenty!

Neither did it have to do with the Easter Bunny, or any various and sundry muses, unless you switch out muses for informants, and then you might get a better idea how I got the inside skinny on many things beguiling—and not so—in Hollywood. The unleashing of the novel, six…

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April 13, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Art Deco divinity — by the pool: Ruby Keeler in Palm Springs

April 6, 2014 / Vickie Lester

All of these individuals were in the film business or married to it…

In contrast, the other guests glistened in tanning oil. There they were, half-naked, with implausibly buoyant bosoms and supplemented bums and biceps, radiating a carefully constructed beauty; all of these individuals were in the film business or married to it. The women were skeletal; Anne assumed they had all…

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