About
Available on Amazon

BEGUILING HOLLYWOOD

If you want a little historical perspective you're home.

Main menu

Skip to content

About
Available on Amazon

Tag: Phoebe Ephron

Show Grid Show List

Post navigation

“I don’t like to read. The only things I read are gossip columns. If someone gives me a book, it had better have lots of pictures.” Ethel Merman

December 19, 2015 by Vickie Lester

Categories: Art, Books, Choreography, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Film, History, Hollywood, Los Angeles, Memoir, Movies, Photography, Theater, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized • Tags: Donald O'Connor, Ethel Merman, Henry Ephron, If someone gives me a book it had better have lots of pictures, Irving Berlin, MarilynMonroe, Mitzi Gaynor, Phoebe Ephron, theres no business like show business

Desk Set (1957) written by Nora and Delia’s mom and dad, Phoebe and Henry Ephron

March 27, 2014 by Vickie Lester

Ruthie Saylor: [Talking about Richard Sumner as he tape measures the office] Do you think we’re being redecorated? Sylvia Blair: Does he look like an interior decorator to you? Peg Costello: No. He looks like one of those men who suddenly switched to vodka!

Categories: Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Fiction, Film, History, Hollywood, Humor, Los Angeles, Marriage, Memoir, Movies, New York, Photography, Romance, Story, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: author, Billy Crystal, Charlie Chaplin, commentary, Delia Ephron, DeliaEphron, Desk Set (1957), funny runs in the family, Henry Ephron, Josh Charles, Katharine Hepburn, KatharineHepburn, Meg Ryan, Nora Ephron, NYTimes, obsessed with the show, Phoebe Ephron, Spencer Tracy, SpencerTracy, The Good Wife, When Harry Met Sally, Will Gardner, wit

4

Nora Ephron: When Harry Met Sally (kinda May, September – Oona and Charlie, definitely straying into May, January)

March 27, 2014 by Vickie Lester

Sally: [Crying hysterically] And I’m going to be forty! Harry: When? Sally: Someday! Harry: In eight years! Sally: But it’s there! It’s like a big dead end! And it’s not the same for men — Charlie Chaplin had kids in his 70’s! Harry: Yeah, but he was too old to pick them up.

Categories: Culture, Entertainment, Film, History, Hollywood, Humor, London, Los Angeles, Memoir, Movies, New York, Photography, Relationships, Romance, Story, Travel, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: author, Billy Crystal, Charlie Chaplin, commentary, Delia Ephron, DeliaEphron, Desk Set (1957), funny runs in the family, Henry Ephron, Josh Charles, Meg Ryan, Nora Ephron, NYTimes, obsessed with the show, Phoebe Ephron, The Good Wife, When Harry Met Sally, Will Gardner, wit

7

I do know the difference between a fictional character and a real person – Delia Ephron for the NYTimes.com

March 27, 2014 by Vickie Lester

Michelle and Robert King, the show’s creators, posted a note to fans, assuring us that Will Gardner may be dead, but Josh Charles, who plays him, “is very much alive and remains an integral part of our family.” Thank you. I may be obsessed with the show, but I do know the difference between a fictional character and a real person. Josh Charles wants to “move on to other creative endeavors,” they say. He wants to direct, for instance. Who […]

Categories: Books, Culture, Entertainment, Film, Friendship, History, Hollywood, Humor, Life, Los Angeles, Memoir, Movies, New York, Story, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: author, commentary, Delia Ephron, DeliaEphron, Desk Set (1957), funny runs in the family, Henry Ephron, Josh Charles, Nora Ephron, NYTimes, obsessed with the show, Phoebe Ephron, The Good Wife, When Harry Met Sally, Will Gardner, wit