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Art
You Know How To Whistle… Lauren Bacall.
I was first introduced to Lauren Bacall by way of the silver screen when I was all of sixteen years old as she burned up the silver screen acting opposite Humphrey Bogart in Ernest Hemingway’s “To Have and Have Not.” … Read More ›
Substance.
The substance is imagination. Go beyond zombie mantras. Learn how to see the world… …in a blade of grass. FantasyArt0102
Through Another Lens
This isn’t a documentary about a photographer of New York fashion and, or, street fashion. It is a documentary about an artist, whose medium happens to be photography, a man to whom fashion is art, and that is how he… Read More ›
Shakespeare, Darlings…
It’s Shakespeare darlings, try not to screw it up. Several years ago I went on a trip with my husband and there was this guy walking around wearing a red and white t-shirt with a picture of Shakespeare on it… Read More ›
Feeling Good, Miss Simone
I watched a documentary last night about Nina Simone, “What Happened, Miss Simone?” I like documentaries and I had watched part of this one before and become distracted. “Feeling Good” was the first Nina Simone song that I ever heard… Read More ›
Stanyan Street.
There’s a good chance that you’ve never heard of Rod McKuen, there’s a good chance that you’ve heard of Rod McKuen and just don’t know that you have, yet. A prolific poet and composer, credited with more than two hundred… Read More ›
Quotes from Joan Didion.
“We tell ourselves stories in order to live. To see enough and write it down, I tell myself, and then some day when I am only going through the motions and doing what I am supposed to do which is… Read More ›
Terpsichore Meets the Wolfman.
The other day I was watching a clip from a Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers vehicle… …Top Hat, 1935. I don’t know how old I was when I first watched one of these extravaganzas. When I was in my… Read More ›
The Origins of Voice.
Author Richard Thomas has written a great article here at Storyville , for the new Lit Reactor writers forum and workshop, about finding ones voice as a writer.One of the things Mr. Thomas suggests, an exercise of writing down your… Read More ›
The Big Blue Marble
Those of us of a certain age may remember the children’s programming of the 1970’s that promoted social and cultural awareness, the idea that we are all different but really, we are all the same. Shows like ZOOM, The Electric… Read More ›
