BEGUILING HOLLYWOOD

Episode 34. Life is the past, the present, and the perhaps.

“Do you know the Mayo Clinic lists menopause under diseases and conditions? What do you think of that?”

“Well, I know it’s not contagious.”...

Episode 33. Hollywood is very pretty, but people grow old here — not outside, but inside.

There were heaps — accumulated reminders of a life — all around. Everything that served as an archival asset, or a teaching aid for future filmmakers,...

Episode 32. It’s said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies — because you never know when you’ll have to work with them.

All through life, instinctively or intellectually, we adapt to survive. Even insects have some boss strategies, for example, the formation of a chitinous...

Episode 31. I always say that if a woman will tell you her age, she will tell you anything.

Life is a series of metamorphoses. Some of them get more airtime...