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“The best thing for being sad…is to learn something. That is the only thing that never fails.” T. H. White

January 31, 2018 by Vickie Lester

I just completed a very big task in terms of the book I wrote, and I thought I’d reward myself, by reading a childhood favorite of mine; a novel I read—enchanted, immersed—compulsively one week during a hot summer vacation many, many years ago. A book written over a period of years from 1938-1958 by T. H. White, The Once and Future King. I picked up the yellowed paperback, and suddenly I wasn’t reading it as a fantasy, but as a […]

Categories: Art, Blogging, Books, Culture, Design, Entertainment, Fiction, Film, History, Hollywood, Life, Literature, London, Movies, New York, Relationships, Story, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: Act Up, activist, courage, health, human dignity, I consider myself a very opinionated man who uses words as fighting tools, I don't consider myself an artist, It’s about speaking up being a buffalo if you have to being mean if you have to, King Arthur, Larry Kramer, Larry Kramer Lives to See His ‘Normal Heart’ Filmed for TV - NYTimes.com., Larry Kramer quote, Merlin, Merlyn, political, reading a novel in the context of history, speaking up, T.H. White, The best thing for being sad...is to learn something, The Normal Heart, The Once and Future King, the right to love, valor, WWll

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Aimee Semple McPherson…fervor, scandal, altered states

July 10, 2014 by Vickie Lester

Aimee Semple McPherson was a religious leader with a broad following. She built the Angelus Temple in Los Angeles to hold her theatrical services and was one of the the first women to buy a broadcast license. This was a typical service with Aimee officiating: This is the parsonage she built behind the temple, note the radio tower: This is the retreat she built in Lake Elsinore: Her life was punctuated by scandal, land swindles, failed movie deals and legal […]

Categories: Architecture, Blogging, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Film, History, Hollywood, law, Los Angeles, Movies, Mystery, Photography, Relationships, Theater, Travel, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: abducted, Aimee Semple McPherson, American culture, Angelus Temple, antifeminist, brimstone, broadcaster, charismatic, charlatan, cloche hat, conservative, cult, damnation, desert, drug, evangelical, evidence, fingerprints, fundamentalist, glasses, healer, hell, history, Hollywood, hotel, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God, kidnapping, Lake Elsinore, land swindle, law suits, Life Story, Los Angeles, movie, non presciption, Old Hollywood, old news photo, ostentatious, overdose, political, preacher, radio, religiosity, revival, rich, scandal, Seconal, sermon, show, speaking in tongues, theatrical

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MARILYN MONROE and LUCILLE BALL have a brush with COMMUNISM

September 28, 2013 by Vickie Lester

BBC ON THIS DAY | 7 | 1958: Arthur Miller cleared of contempt. Arthur Miller wouldn’t name names for HUAC and he was slapped with contempt – here his wife, Marilyn Monroe, reacts to the news in 1958 that Miller was cleared of charges. Now poppets, you will find I rarely stray into the political, but I’ll tell you something my dad told me (a guy who voted for Reagan and whose own father had spearheaded Republicans for Roosevelt), if […]

Categories: Blogging, Crime, Culture, Design, Entertainment, fashion, Film, History, Hollywood, law, Life, Literature, Los Angeles, Marriage, Memoir, Movies, New York, Photography, Politics, Relationships, Story, Theater, Truth & Rumors, Uncategorized, Writing • Tags: announcement, Arthur Miller, committee, Communism, contempt, Democrat, evidence, FDR, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Hollywood, HUAC, I LOVE LUCY, J. Edgar Hoover, Joe McCarthy, Lucille Ball, Marilyn Monroe, name names, political, radical, Reagan, recant, Rep. Donald Jackson, Republican, salvattion, sealed testimony, voter registration, witch hunt

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BULLETS OR BALLOTS – VOTE

October 25, 2012 by Vickie Lester

A real gun moll: If you’ve been following this blog you’ll know I have some pretty close ties to Hollywood and I bet you can guess which way I’m going to vote. Both my parents were active in the Civil Rights Movement and they both appeared in public and in the media to promote it. Up until the age of about nine I really did think the word “Republican” was some kind of curse – like calling someone a bastard, […]

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FDR IN HOLLYWOOD

September 6, 2012 by Vickie Lester

Shirley Temple and Eddie Cantor cut President Roosevelt’s birthday cake: The President’s motorcade through downtown Los Angeles: The President addresses Los Angeles:

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