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A dog’s life
This handsome pooch just cost a major motion picture studio ten million dollars, and I’m referring to the creature with the fur. Let’s just say a certain person was slated to make a sea faring epic in...
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From publishing deal to self publishing in the blink of an eye. Poppets,...
No matter how you design it, or chart it out, things change. This Friday, past the end of business hours I heard some astonishing news. My joint-publishing partners were no longer a publishing entity....
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Lupe Velez shot at Gary Cooper when he was boarding a train for Chicago, but...
Gary Cooper meets Lupe Velez at Central Station, Los Angeles, in 1932:
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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...
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The novel, in which I spill the beans, let loose, tell all, well, all that I...
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...
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What’s life like with Crazy-Pants Publishing-Girl?
Let’s imagine we’re Mister Lester… Why! I feel so tall all of a sudden! Back to reality here. The Mister does stand about a head taller than me, but I’ve never seen him in eyeliner. I’m not saying it’s...
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Vickie Lester gets all grand-maternal
I had a little guest over for dinner last night. Of course she came with parents, but she tailed me throughout the evening, helped me in the kitchen, and we chatted and laughed pretty much non-stop....
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A. Quincy Jones builds a house for Gary Cooper…
Yes, that tall Montanan played an architect in one of the most humorless, bombastic, pieces of drivel every put on the screen—and by that I mean “The Fountainhead”—but he knew where to go when he...
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Gary Cooper in curls
Goofing around Gary Cooper dons a wig, can’t identify the gentleman on the left (a director?), on the right is Basil Rathbone. Happy Sunday! Hm. Let’s make this free association Sunday. This picture...
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Design For Living – 1933 – and a very merry movie for the holidays!
For some reason I always think of this as a holiday movie… . First, it was a play written by Noel Coward, and let’s just say it was inspired by his relationship with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne...
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Hollywood scandals — Gary Cooper reads all about it
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Claudette Colbert skis Sun Valley, and who’s that tall drink of water? Why,...
* Claudette Colbert (1948) Sun Valley – photographed by Earl Theisen. Getty Images * click on the red letters * Earl Theisen, my dad: Daughter finds negatives of Marilyn, more. *
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“Film Cutter: He puts the pieces together…” Marlene Dietrich
Nothing fazes him. He cannot only change the action, but, by clipping tiny frames of film to speed it up or by adding tiny pieces to delay it, he can also change reaction. He can cut sound with the...
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“I will honour Christmas in my heart, and try to keep it all the...
Come the holidays and breakfast seems more of an event than dinner. I love the scent of coffee brewing on a chilly morning, the look of sliced bright red strawberries, the bright blue glow of the gas...
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