Chaplin could inspire anyone to poetry!City LightsFlowers in my mouthTaste of sacrifice and love.I can see. Can you?This is an entry for the Best For Film Hollywood Haikus blogging competition. Enter n...
Saturday, 30 April 2011
Since I'm still in that Royal Wedding mood, an entrant to the movie haiku contest with a royal theme. Was there ever a more royal princess than Audrey?Roman HolidayBest Haircut? Pixie!Best Ride? A Vespa is bliss!Best City? Rome. Rome.This is an entry for the Best For Film Hollywood Haikus blogging competition. Enter n...
Friday, 29 April 2011
Ah, the poet in me is emerging! Another crack at a movie haiku and an entry in the contest (hey, one never knows). This is kind of fun!Double IndemnitySnake in an anklet;Fool thinks he is in control.Next Stop: Double Cross.This is an entry for the Best For Film Hollywood Haikus blogging competition. Enter n...
Okay - I'll take a few shots at a Movie Haiku. I'm not normally known as a poet, but sometimes films inspire me to be poetic! Let me search my soul......Sunset BoulevardSo Misunderstood!A face of nitrate and dreams;The parade's gone by.This is an entry for the Best For Film Hollywood Haikus blogging competition. Enter n...
Tuesday, 26 April 2011
Ever since I figured out that men were cuter than horses (though I admit I waiver back and forth on that one from time to time), I have lived through many massive crushes on movie stars. Once in a while a TV star would creep in, but he had to be movie-worthy in order to make the cut. I devoured the teen movie publications. Every week a new magazine! New stories and photos to pour over!Being a classic film nut, many of my crushes came from watching...
Saturday, 23 April 2011
Chapter 4 of the Norma Desmond Chronicles.Norma got off on a temporary insanity plea, did a short stint in a spa-like psych center and is now free in Hollywood. She's back and better than ever!Max Von Myerling has loved Norma Desmond for as long as he can remember.The Object of His AffectionAs a young director from Vienna, he was quite a ladies man. One of the young Hollywood's directors who showed promise in the early days (along with D.W. Griffith...
Tuesday, 19 April 2011
Florenz Ziegfeld, master showman of Broadway, hated Hollywood. No, it wasn't an east coast-west coast thing. It wasn't even theater vs. film snobbery. He hated Hollywood (and the movies) because Flo, the great glorifier of the American girl, was constantly having his stable of lovelies stolen by the movies.It wasn't so bad when movies were largely filmed in New York. At least the stage and the movies could share the young beauties (even if...
Friday, 15 April 2011
The long lost diaries of two of old Hollywood's most alluring brunettes have been discovered! While Miriam Cooper worked in the teens and early 20s and Ann Dvorak worked primarily in the 1930s and 40s, both seemed to have struggled against the rule of the Hollywood Blondes. Keep reading for a sneak peek at some of their most provocative inner thoughts. Remember - you read it here first!Miriam CooperDear Diary:I am so excited to be working in...
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