LOVE – ANNE BANCROFT AND MEL BROOKS – HAPPY VALENTINE’S
“My Favorite Year” was loosely based on Mr. Brooks early experiences working on Sid Caesar’s “Your Show of Shows” and it was the first film Richard Benjamin directed — I got sidetracked. We were...
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I had a couple of emails asking for my cream puff recipe… This is the incomparable pastry chef, Paula Peck: This is her granddaughter’s site: Megan Peck Cooks | Recreating the Works of Grandmother...
View ArticleARCHITECTURAL EYE CANDY LA – HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY
I was running around town with my sweetheart and I snapped these photos with my ancient, but mighty, iPhone. This is a neighborhood at the southern edge of Korea Town, south of Wilshire Blvd. When I...
View ArticleONE OF THE REASONS MR. LESTER IS MY SPECIAL VALENTINE
A friend emailed Mr. Lester this morning and asked, “What did you say to the Pope?” This was his reply, “Wow, that guy is so sensitive! I just told him that maybe, just maybe, he was not a force of...
View ArticleHOW HEF SAVED HOLLYWOOD
I’m very interested in the derivation of ideas and that takes me on some winding paths on which I invite you to join… I was scrounging around for images like these for… ah, tomorrow… you know,...
View ArticleTHE MOST EROTIC KISS IN FILM HISTORY – NOTORIOUS
The great erotic moment in “Vertigo” is the one where the man kisses the woman of his fantasy, while the room whirls around him. There is a parallel scene in “Notorious,” and it was famous at the time...
View ArticleFROM ANY ANGLE – THE PERFECT VALENTINE
“Everybody wants to be Cary Grant. Even I want to be Cary Grant.” Congratulations, Archibald Alexander Leach, you’re the only man who ever was.
View ArticleAsk me anything… within reason
For instance, have you ever had a cosmetic procedure? Yes, I have had three radio wave facials that are supposed to stimulate collagen generation and tighten the skin. You also will notice I do that...
View ArticleLove and forever friends… Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson
“How to define Elizabeth, my god… I think the best way to describe her is she’s an Earth Mother. And she cares for everybody and everything. She cares. She believes in people.” Rock Hudson
View ArticleMe and my Valentine and postmodern decorum…which means I’m going to blurt...
When you walk in a dream But you know, you’re not dreaming signore Scuzza me, but you see Back in old Napoli, that’s amore COURTING IN HOLLYWOOD | BEGUILING HOLLYWOOD. This is the part where I blurt...
View ArticleBabies, do you Bossa Nova? Welcome to a new Beguiling reader and Happy...
Carmen De Lavallade and Wesley (Hello, Wesley!) Fata dance (wow, do they dance!) to the Soul Bossa Nova, composed and performed by Quincy Jones. *** A darling friend, who is Lost in Arles, tells us...
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