BEGUILING HOLLYWOOD

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15. Sometimes a map is a map, and other times it’s a state of mind.

Posted October 31, 202000:09:16

At the moment I’m looking at an old menu from a restaurant called the Brown Derby. On its cover is an imaginary map of Los Angeles with Hollywood...

14. “The American dream is a term that is often used but often misunderstood. It really isn’t about becoming rich and famous. It is about things much simpler and fundamental than that.” Dorothy Dandridge

Posted October 25, 202000:15:06

At the onset of our thirties we, the former nannies, while ascending the career ladder, found our personal lives lagging. Polly found her male peers...

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

Posted October 24, 202000:06:39

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...

12. “You have to be hard-boiled to get through life whether you’re a shop-girl, a debutante, or a movie star.”

Posted October 24, 202000:18:36

There is a kind of courtship that goes on between producer and director, a kind of wooing. The producer holds the means of movie making (money) and...

Episode 11. “Behind every cloud there’s another cloud.”

Posted October 17, 202000:34:53

There are definitely seasons in California, whatever anyone says to the contrary. In the winter the smog lifts. The daytime skies are a blue that delights...