YAY ELIZABETH!

LET THE GAMES BEGIN.

IT'S SUNDAY, TIME TO GO CAR SHOPPING!

GREY GARDENS UPDATE

Just perused the latest Vanity Fair and easily noticed this old photo of Robert Redford and Ben Bradlee. Sadly, the scan isn't very good, but the photo in the magazine is (page 126). I'm thrilled to know that the current resident of GG, like the previous owners, has no trouble pushing a basket.

BREAKING NEWS

Today's news said Zsa Zsa is back in the hospital because there's no blood moving 

through the last leg. Doctors told her that this last leg must be removed, but Zsa Zsa will have none of it and is scheduled to return home. Back in January, I predicted this. Someone wants there to be more than one pile of Gabor.

Can We Ever Forgive Her?

Something told me to rip this out of a magazine back 
in December 2002. I don't know about you, but just looking 
at him makes me shudder. Imagine what it'd make Liza do.

Can I Ever Forgive Her?

A while back, I discovered Letters of Note, a groovy
site, filled with an wonderful selection of written

correspondence from all sorts of folks. I took it upon
myself to grab this delightful Dorothy Parker note
and then began to wonder.

Do you know who Lee Israel is? She's a terrific
writer, having authored Miss Tallulah Bankhead,
Kilgallen and Beyond The Magic
(An Unauthorized Biography of Estee Lauder). Though the book on Estee wasn't all that great, her first two bios were superb. Of course, Lee chose fascinating subjects, women whose lives had been overstuffed with far too many tasty tidbits. Still, Ms. Israel is a gifted writer. I've returned to her books countless times, not only to reread what she wrote about, but how she wrote it. Ah, to write like her!

Seems life got pretty good for Lee after the Bankhead bio and continued on the upward after Kilgallen. Then came Lauder and that book did nothing, but Miss Israel had become accustomed to a certain level of living. She'd also run out of money. There were temp jobs and welfare, neither of which she liked.

While doing an article for a small magazine, her research brought her to the library at Lincoln Center. It was here that she happened upon some letters of Fanny Brice's and figured out that she could write letters as good as Fanny, if not better. So, she wrote; and sold. Lots. Noel Cowards, Edna Ferbers, Louise Brooks', Lee did quite well. Ultimately, she got nabbed by a savvy dealer and some Noel Coward missives. Seemed Lee had gone too far, putting words into Noel's mouth that he never would have uttered. Words that spoke to his sexual orientation.                        




In her book, Lee writes of how Dorothy Parker's, "epistolary legacy is spare" and that she could only limit herself to four years in the Sixties when Dot resided in Hollywood on Norma Place. (Such a lovely name for a street, dontcha think?)



 

These are two of Lee Israel's Dorothys. 

How are we ever to know what is real and what is not?

As for my opening question, I can forgive her, easily 

if 

she continues to write.

So long honey!

Last June 21st, we gave a shout out to Janie on her 89th. One can only hope that the bra with the propellers is helping her wend her way up, up, up, where she belongs.

Yahrtzeit! Zara Cully-1978

It's Sunday morning.....

....and I'd like a second hag cup.

I'm Considering Remodelling

Do you think Abby or Ann had this in their rumpus room?

Fortune Cookie

Pu-Pu Platter of the Day

I've been remiss at posting, forgive me. I am trying to put something together, but alas, 

I am slow. In the meantime, I'm simply going to throw a few things up so that if you 

happen to pass through, you won't be bored.

CALF-ITER

I'm so shocked by this, I just had to share my shock with you.

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