GUEST POST BY HOLLY ABRAMS!
Since I can't be pried off the couch to stop watching my endless parade of Law & Orders, we are very lucky to have guest blogger, and my friend of 40+ years, Holly Abrams, give us her insights into the recent movie, Book Club -- aka "Isn't It Totes Adorbs When ...
Here is a continuation of my Top Ten List of Classic Dame-y Movies. This is no easy task because there are so many movies that feature dames being dames. It was hard winnowing down the list, so I wrote a separate post explaining my final criteria. (Without a using a criterion here and there, I ...
The world is chock full of dames, some fully-blossomed, some who remain stunted as seedlings. One of the best ways to coax a nascent dame out of her shell is to see examples of damery at its finest. Luckily there are dames of the silver screen providing a golden sun to show the way. Classic ...
For several generations I Love Lucy has served as a sort of televisual I-Ching. For millions of young girls, I Love Lucy has been a redhead-led Rosetta Stone, a valuable key offering guidance on such timeless questions as “What if my best friend is wearing a dress identical to mine on ...
Everyone wants their content to be seen by as many people as possible.
But what you really want is for your content to be shared by as many people as possible. (Which is really the way to make the first thing happen, isn’t it?)
Some people obsess about page views and “Likes”, but for me ...
I learned about blow jobs from Charlie Chaplin. (Yes, that Charlie Chaplin.) I was about 12 and with my babysitting earnings I bought the book Hollywood Babylon. As a passionate old movie fan, and an adolescent girl with a filthy mind and an even filthier curiosity, a book like Hollywood ...
According to F. Scott Fitzgerald, "there are no second acts in American lives." Clearly, F. didn’t know f---, and he certainly didn’t know 1920s Blues singer and writer, “Sippie” Wallace.
Like the more well-known Bessie Smith and Ma Rainey, Sippie Wallace was one of the most popular ladies ...
Carole Landis is known primarily as the bosomy blonde movie star who offed herself over Rex Harrison. Of all the schmucks who’ve driven ladies to leap, the idea of killing yourself over a tool like “Sexy Rexy” seems especially senseless. But in Hollywood’s Golden Years one of filmdom’s most ...
My first love is dead.
Like millions of girls (and undoubtedly quite a few boys) growing up in the 60s, my first crush was on Russell Johnson, who played Roy Hinkley, known to generations of TV viewers simply as The Professor. I imagined being held in his arms, smelling the crisp, ...
Two of my all-time favorite things in the world are old movies and Christmas. So when the two intersect, my heart squeals and jumps up and gives my brain a great big kiss!
It's time to stop watching those Hallmark Channel movies and gather the family 'round the big screen hearth and settle in ...
Though most famous (to me, anyway) as the Pepsi-and-milk-swigging half of Laverne & Shirley, Penny Marshall’s new memoir, My Mother Was Nuts, reveals her real life was as crazy as anything that went on in front of the cameras.
The book reads like a Who’s Who of pop culture’s major ...
