Poppets, it’s time for Vickie Lester’s “how to” Thanksgiving Dinner
Face it, if you’re serving the feast this year there’s a lot of work to be done. Walk in my door, and you will be directed to the living room with a crackling fire in the hearth. Most likely, The...
View ArticleReprise: Thanksgiving at our house…
Hello dear readers, This in no way resembles what the house looks like in real time. By this point I have become the person who the child refers to as “Boss” and who the sainted man that married me...
View ArticleI am thankful for you…
For editors, for digital savants, for connoisseurs of scent, for kind hearts around the world, for book clubs, and for this thing we call the Internet. Edith Head and Gloria Swanson, 1950 The places...
View ArticleOver the river and through Beverlywood to Grandmother’s house we go…
I look at images like this and I remember my grandmother’s house. The teenagers in my life get the same glazed look they exhibit whenever I turn the channel to TCM. “It’s old-timey!” Which, of course,...
View ArticleThe calm before Thanksgiving is about to break…standby for complete recipes...
When I was a little girl sometimes I would wake and pad down the stairs to the kitchen early on Thanksgiving morning and my mom would already have a 22 pound bird trussed up, stuffed, and ready for...
View ArticleI admire anyone, even if they’re 5, if they can break into song before 8 in...
I’ve started taking walks in the morning, spurred on by my doctor’s advice. I asked during my last checkup if I should start training with weights to prevent osteoporosis, and my esteemed physician of...
View Article“Fruitcake is my kryptonite,” an admission from a friend…
“He left Hollywood and renounced the pursuit of fame, joining a brotherhood of Franciscans who supported their monastery by refilling ink cartridges and baking fruitcake, available at Amazon.com.”...
View ArticleDining with Dietrich
Marlene Dietrich’s Zabaglione “Mix three yolks of eggs with three tablespoons of sugar until the mixture is creamy and whitish. Then add a bit more than half a cup of Marsala wine. Mix. In a double...
View ArticleCheers! And goodbye to gall that…another thing I am very thankful for!
I am happy to say my cup runneth over. These days I feel très bien, which is in stark contrast to the past year when I thought my general malaise — feeling low and kind of punk — had to do with being...
View ArticleSTARS WITH KNIVES
These publicity stills are supposed to portray stars whose lives were anything but typical – as American as apple pie. Ann Sheridan: These are 18 to 24 pound birds and, no doubt, these gals did not do...
View ArticleECLECTIC RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE – LOS ANGELES
I had a friend who used to work in the 1980s for the Samuel Goldwyn Co. He lived in Beverly Hills in an apartment and he took the bus to work. He also liked to walk. Apparently that wasn’t fashionable...
View ArticleWHAT THEY WERE THANKFUL FOR IN 1927 – HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD
In 1927 people dragged out their vintage cars (and horses) and paraded in honor of Hollywood’s early settlers: –
View ArticleHAPPY TURKEY DAY TO MY FRIENDS IN SAN FRANCISCO @ Grison’s 1950s
Especially you, Mister! http://sentsmemory.wordpress.com/ Gobble-gobble!
View ArticleTHAT SCREWY, BALLYHOOEY HOLLYWOOD – OLD SETTLERS PARADE 1927
Producer Al Christie (he produced hundreds and hundreds of comedy shorts) and bathing beauties salute old Hollywood. . Songwriters: WHITING, RICHARD / MERCER, JOHNNY . Hooray for Hollywood That screwy,...
View ArticleTHANKSGIVING AT THE HOLLYWOOD CANTEEN
Service men during WWII enjoying a Thanksgiving meal at the Hollywood Canteen (thanks largely to the efforts of Bette Davis and John Garfield – somewhere in heaven y’all should take a bow) –
View ArticleThe American Menu: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
The American Menu: Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner. This Blogger (click on the red letters above) is FASCINATING. And, Clifton Webb knew how to throw one hell of a party. Wait until you read the guest list…
View ArticleEDDIE CANTOR PARADES IN HOLLYWOOD AND NEW YORK
The Christmas Parade, The Santa Claus Lane Parade, usually the day after Thanksgiving down Hollywood Blvd. This fellow is actor comedian Eddie Cantor on a float in Hollywood: And here he is floating...
View ArticleTHE TIN MAN GOES TO NEW YORK
This is Jack Haley as the Tin Man getting a buff and a polish: And here’s the Tin Man flying above New York City:
View ArticleBILL SCOTT AND BULLWINKLE J. MOOSE
William Scott was born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. During World War II he served in the U.S. Army’s First Motion Picture Unit (reporting to Lt. Ronald Reagan), where he worked with such animators as...
View ArticleParade Balloons Take Shape, but Flight Is Iffy, Depending on Wind – NYTimes.com
By MARC SANTORA and SARAH MASLIN NIR Published: November 27, 2013 7 Comments Felix the Cat once caught fire. Bullwinkle sprung a leak, spewing a blast of helium from his nose yards from the finish...
View ArticleFRED MACMURRAY and LILLIAN LAMONT and their COLONIAL REVIVAL HOME
Mr. Un-Modern Fred MacMurray LOST L.A. Modesty, simplicity and constancy were the themes in the actor’s traditional Brentwood home. October 01, 2011 Sam Watters . Fred MacMurray was a 26-year-old,...
View ArticleI like gingerbread for Thanksgiving… Thank you Edna Lewis and Scott Peacock
This isn’t an adaptation, it’s verbatim from one of my favorite cookbooks. I can’t recommend it highly enough, and of course if you click on the title at the end of the post you will be whisked away to...
View ArticleCider Caramel Apple Pie recipe on Food52.com… A Thanksgiving Delight!
Holy Moly! I do believe I have found the Thanksgiving Apple Pie I’ve been looking for all my life. Thanks to Erin McDowell and one of my favorite cooking blogs: This filling is tart, but with a rich...
View ArticleReprise: Thanksgiving stories…
Once my friend prepared a casserole dish of potatoes au gratin to bake at my house and it sloshed in her car and for weeks it smelled like baby puke, until she took it to a specialty cleaner…the kind...
View ArticleReprise: Thanksgiving Los Angeles Style
1934, turkey shoot at the Elysian Park Police Academy — that’s the first image. The second image was taken at the Biltmore Hotel in downtown L.A. — as chefs prepared Thanksgiving dinner. I remember...
View ArticleI’ll tell ya what I’m thankful for…
Plenty. First of all I grew up with loving parents who were wary of the fishbowl of fame. Now, if you’ve been reading along for the past couple of years you know that Cary Grant is not my daddy, but I...
View ArticleFavorite search term for this website? Hollywood old smooch (!)
Listen my angels, it’s been a hell of a year. On this Thanksgiving I wish you happiness and peace and hope. And most of all — I wish you love.
View ArticleLove in Hollywood
That smiling young person is yours truly, on a rather dingy cold movie set right after The Mister and I decided to get married. We met two years earlier on a movie set in baking hot Palms Springs, and...
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