studio head – BEGUILING HOLLYWOOD

December 13, 2020 / Vickie Lester

Episode 27 is introduced by Mabel Normand, who said, “Acting in the movies is like a cold — you get used to both after a while.”

Gifted with a glib tongue he moved quickly from never-featured actor, to production assistant, to assistant director, and rapidly ascended the dating scale (as he saw it) from the cute craft service gal who brought cucumber sushi snacks to camera at four in the afternoon, to the daughter of a…

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October 24, 2020 / Vickie Lester

13. “You’re only as good as your last picture.”

Unlike Mr. Booker, Bob Brown was not a man who, he liked to say, “Waded through god damn minutia,” especially the finer points of male versus female behavior. Bob Brown tended to set goals and chart practical points to achieve them. He thought of himself as an integral, fundamental, part…

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September 10, 2016 / Vickie Lester

All I do is dream of you…

Hello! This excerpt from my novel in progress is for my friend in Seattle, Scott Parker-Anderson. I’m in a helluva good mood, because after months of being forbidden from typing (separated my shoulder joint, long story, tell ya later) I am back at the keyboard. For those of you who…

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June 19, 2016 / Vickie Lester

I wrote my first novel for the man who put me on his shoulders and showed me the world, happy Father’s Day

That’s my father, he died many years ago on a business trip to London. And being my father’s daughter, this is the deal—this portrait of him is a link to my Hollywood novel, click and it’ll take you to Amazon. Hold onto your hats for a rare “non-fiction” moment, I…

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May 14, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Believe it or not, he swore a mean blue streak but, he also was one of the smartest humans I’ll ever know, and the best father – click on the picture

May 14, 2014 / Vickie Lester

A camera-ready world of fantasy fulfilled, artifice and bone-deep glamour — or a place of dark reality…It’s in His Kiss, June 1st

May 6, 2014 / Vickie Lester

Tag: studio head

Episode 27 is introduced by Mabel Normand, who said, “Acting in the movies is like a cold — you get used to both after a while.”

13. “You’re only as good as your last picture.”

All I do is dream of you…

I wrote my first novel for the man who put me on his shoulders and showed me the world, happy Father’s Day

Believe it or not, he swore a mean blue streak but, he also was one of the smartest humans I’ll ever know, and the best father – click on the picture

And while Dad was definitely of another era, he had some very modern ideas – click on the picture

Dad didn’t have a pencil mustache but, he did blow smoke rings and wear a fedora – click on the picture

It’s In His Kiss roams from the dark underbelly of Palm Springs to the power canyons of Hollywood…June 1st

A camera-ready world of fantasy fulfilled, artifice and bone-deep glamour — or a place of dark reality…It’s in His Kiss, June 1st

It’s in his Kiss, everyone has a secret: once-wealthy moguls, studio executives with double lives…June 1st