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BEGUILING HOLLYWOOD35. You made it! The last chapter of Hollywood & MineI’ve been tossing about as much stardust as I can muster right now. That’s it, this novel is done. I think the podcast of the book runs a bit over 10 hours in its entirety. Let me know if you’d like to hear another Hollywood novel podcast — remember it…2021-01-1618 minBEGUILING HOLLYWOOD34. Hollywood & Mine — Life is the past, the present, and the perhaps.“Do you know the Mayo Clinic lists menopause under diseases and conditions? What do you think of that?” “Well, I know it’s not contagious.” He sat down beside me. “Jesus, this is hard on my knees.” “Sorry about that, old-timer. Cooper, I am not pissed off.” “Then what’s with the…2021-01-1024 min
BEGUILING HOLLYWOOD33 Hollywood & Mine — Hollywood is very pretty, but people grow old here — not outside, but inside.There were heaps — accumulated reminders of a life — all around. Everything that served as an archival asset, or a teaching aid for future filmmakers, I boxed and hauled over to the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. Clothes, I donated. Books, I culled down to the essentials…2021-01-0223 min
BEGUILING HOLLYWOOD32 Hollywood & Mine — It’s said in Hollywood that you should always forgive your enemies — because you never know when you’ll have to work with them.All through life, instinctively or intellectually, we adapt to survive. Even insects have some boss strategies, for example, the formation of a chitinous exoskeleton, which is the somewhat see-through shell that encapsulates and protects a shrimp or a spider. I have a theory about directors who succeed in the movie…2020-12-2713 min
BEGUILING HOLLYWOOD31 Hollywood & Mine — I always say that if a woman will tell you her age, she will tell you anything.Life is a series of metamorphoses. Some of them get more airtime than others. I remember once waiting in a gynecologist’s office to see the doctor. There was his desk, on the walls family pictures, on the shelves, some weighty texts. I was curious about hot flashes, so I pulled…2020-12-2621 minBEGUILING HOLLYWOOD30 Hollywood & Mine — Every star I know in Hollywood acknowledges the same fact. With luck you can climb. Without it, your brakes don’t work even when you coast.For a few short days after Antoine’s crisis I was more aware of the rhythms and mechanisms of filmmaking and its twitchy straitlaced cousin finance than I had ever been. Much like how time can seem to slow when you fall, leaving you able to see everything around you with…2020-12-1908 minBEGUILING HOLLYWOOD29. Hollywood & Mine — Never admit anything to anybody. Honesty is not the best policy.Lethal stress can come at you no matter whether you’re onscreen or off. Actors in Hollywood have committed suicide by swallowing ant paste, Nembutal, or barbiturates. George Sanders (check out his performance in All About Eve) swallowed five bottles of pills in Barcelona and left two suicides notes. One in…2020-12-1905 min
BEGUILING HOLLYWOOD28. Hollywood & Mine — Clara Bow wasn't the only one who found Hollywood depressing.Clara Bow wasn’t the only one who found Hollywood depressing. On a chilly, unusually clouded over, February afternoon in 2009 when I was 48, after the fourth week of shooting on the revived franchise, I received a call. It was Antoine. He told me he couldn’t make it to set…2020-12-1913 minBEGUILING HOLLYWOOD27 Hollywood & Mine. Mabel Normand said, "Acting in the movies is like a cold — you get used to both after a while."Gifted with a glib tongue he moved quickly from never-featured actor, to production assistant, to assistant director, and rapidly ascended the dating scale (as he saw it) from the cute craft service gal who brought cucumber sushi snacks to camera at four in the afternoon, to the daughter of a…2020-12-1328 minBEGUILING HOLLYWOOD26 Hollywood & Mine, All creative people should be required to leave California for three months every year.In the words of Dorothy Gale, there’s no place like home. The light here is what made filmmakers move to California. It shines here most of the time, and there are certain places, certain times of year that take your breath away with sheer wonder. It’s a crying shame that…2020-12-1212 min
BEGUILING HOLLYWOOD25 Hollywood & Mine. Now we come to episode 25 of the novel, in the words of Katharine Hepburn — life is hard, after all, it kills you.The streets of Beverly Hills, unlike the streets of the Hollywood Hills, were nearly empty. One morning I saw a woman of about seventy, with the poise and stance of a dancer, shining long silver hair side-parted like Veronica Lake — probably just as it had been when she was…2020-12-0623 minBEGUILING HOLLYWOOD24 Hollywood & Mine, Billie's boss trips (in a psychedelic way) and she steps in to take his place...I loved recording this chapter, it’s got Hollywood history, everlasting friendship, and of course some very strange goings-on… There we sat, the mogul’s daughter turned academic, the copywriter turned designer, the semi-profane raconteur turned show runner, the pragmatist turned legal advocate, and me; the nanny turned studio executive. It was…2020-12-0518 minBEGUILING HOLLYWOOD23 Hollywood & Mine, an earthquake hits L.A. and Billie falls out of love...We are all the lead character in our personal narrative yet this bothered me. Behind the scenes was my forté, I wasn’t ready for a starring role, never had been. Why was that? And why couldn’t I stop thinking about myself in relation to Cooper? What also bothered me…2020-11-2822 minBEGUILING HOLLYWOOD22 Hollywood & Mine, in which Billie travels to Vegas and has a seismic realizationChapter 20, in which Billie travels to Vegas and comes to a seismic realization. I tended to think of sleep as something healing, freshening, and cleansing. I traced this somewhat peculiar notion to parental influence. I distinctly remembered – though I couldn’t have been more than four at the time…2020-11-2216 minBEGUILING HOLLYWOOD21. Hollywood & Mine, when producer kisses director...Merle Oberon said that thing about Hollywood and one night stands. We’ll talk about her joy ride with David Niven later. Now we’re back to the story of Billie and chapter 19 — A film set is a constantly shifting sea. It’s usually crowded concentrated controlled chaos — until it’s…2020-11-2122 minBEGUILING HOLLYWOOD20. Hollywood & Mine, when movie producer Billie plays a bridesmaidChapter 18 begins with a quote from Bette Davis: I’d marry again if I found a man who had fifteen million dollars, would sign over half to me, and guarantee that he’d be dead within a year. On a Saturday following the first week of shooting, I woke, and for…2020-11-1524 minBEGUILING HOLLYWOOD19 Hollywood & Mine, when movie producer Billie decides to defend her directorThere’s nothing a man can do, that I can’t do better and in heels. So said Ginger Rogers, and thus begins chapter 17. There are so many myths on which the reality of Hollywood is based. Some are funny and fun, some are sad, and some are desperate. I…2020-11-1411 minBEGUILING HOLLYWOOD18 Hollywood & Mine, in which our hero begins her meteoric rise in the moviesI’m feeling celebratory, so there will be three chapters of Hollywood & Mine going up this weekend. This is episode 18 (chapter 16, for those of you keeping track) and it starts with a quote from good old Greta Garbo: If only those who dream about Hollywood knew how difficult…2020-11-1315 minBEGUILING HOLLYWOOD17 Hollywood & MineAnd thus, Anne Brown and her roommate, Tatiana Schneider were dispatched to a TV star’s mountain top domicile. They felt charged with responsibility and a certain kind of contempt for their elders’ unmanageable peccadilloes, “God, how gross,” was a phrase they bandied about between them. The star’s property…2020-11-0714 minBEGUILING HOLLYWOOD16 Hollywood & Mine“I recorded that section about the riots of ’92 one week before the May-June protests in 2020. Pandemic, economic collapse, police brutality… Three horsemen of the apocalypse are quite enough, thank you.” *** That’s a quote from the novel I’m podcasting, you can listen at the end of post. Lena…2020-10-3107 minBEGUILING HOLLYWOOD15 Hollywood & MineAt the moment I’m looking at an old menu from a restaurant called the Brown Derby. On its cover is an imaginary map of Los Angeles with Hollywood at its center. It’s scattered with cartoon depictions of movie cameras, musical notes winging out of the Hollywood Bowl, crooners broadcasting from…2020-10-3109 minBEGUILING HOLLYWOOD14 Chapter 13 Hollywood & MineAt the onset of our thirties we, the former nannies, while ascending the career ladder, found our personal lives lagging. Polly found her male peers juvenile – emotionally immature and adolescent in their delight at attaining useless things. Darla made a three year, nine million dollar TV development deal and…2020-10-2515 minBEGUILING HOLLYWOOD13 Chapter 12 Hollywood & MineUnlike Mr. Booker, Bob Brown was not a man who, he liked to say, “Waded through god damn minutia,” especially the finer points of male versus female behavior. Bob Brown tended to set goals and chart practical points to achieve them. He thought of himself as an integral, fundamental, part…2020-10-2406 minBEGUILING HOLLYWOOD12 Chapter 11 Hollywood & MineThere is a kind of courtship that goes on between producer and director, a kind of wooing. The producer holds the means of movie making (money) and the director, if they’re any good, provides the vision. There’s a honeymoon period, and often an inevitable falling out. It was a form…2020-10-2418 minBEGUILING HOLLYWOOD11 Chapter 10 Hollywood & MineThere are definitely seasons in California, whatever anyone says to the contrary. In the winter the smog lifts. The daytime skies are a blue that delights my New England soul. At night the lights that sprawl from the San Gabriel Mountains to the sea glow against a heavenly dome of…2020-10-1734 minBEGUILING HOLLYWOOD10 Chapter 9 Hollywood & MIne“You know my mom and dad came out to visit me when I was on that first movie. I took them to set, Grauman’s Chinese, Max Factor’s. We looked at every little bitty star on Hollywood Boulevard and had hot fudge sundaes at C.C. Brown’s. The day they came to…2020-10-1114 minBEGUILING HOLLYWOOD9 Chapter 8 Hollywood & MineShooting began. Patsy Morris, checking in one afternoon as the crew broke for lunch cautioned me. “Remember, movies are like high school with a paycheck. The same juvenile behavior and more cliques than you can keep track of.”2020-10-1019 minBEGUILING HOLLYWOOD8 Chapter 7 Hollywood & MineWe were in pre-production for months, which is otherwise known as “development.” It’s mostly an accounting trick, cinema semantics as some impressive dollar deals are tied to certain points in the film schedule, like the huge fees that are handed out the first day of principal photography.2020-10-0322 minBEGUILING HOLLYWOOD7 Chapter 6 Hollywood & MineSome people apply battle strategy to film making. Many directors are able to extemporize on Sun Tzu’s thirteen principals of war. I wasn’t very familiar with eastern philosophy, even though Cooper Daniels had sent me to the Bodhi Tree bookstore on Melrose for a stack of treatises in vogue with…2020-09-2620 minBEGUILING HOLLYWOOD6 Chapter 5 Hollywood & MineI scanned the editing room to see if there was a physical tell for an epiphany moment. Two young men in their early twenties, my classmates, were hunched down in a darkened cubicle, stubble across their chins, staring at the projection screen. The only thing on their horizon was their…2020-09-2026 min
BEGUILING HOLLYWOOD5 Chapter 4 Hollywood & MineI called my mom. Mother Lydia was the antithesis of everyone I knew in Hollywood. If I couldn’t get absolution I knew calling her would result in a strong dose of disapproval, an advised course correction, and a grudging glimmer of hope. First of all, as a school superintendent, she…2020-09-1911 min
BEGUILING HOLLYWOOD4 Chapter 3 Hollywood & MineIt’s amazing in L.A., how often the very early morning brings clarity. It’s true. The low angle of the sun, the freshly brewed coffee, the smell of moist earth and eucalyptus after the sprinklers had gone off. In my gullible twenties — after the birth of my son — it…2020-09-1220 minBEGUILING HOLLYWOOD3 Chapter 2 Hollywood & MineIt’s not common knowledge, but most leading men are short. They have big heads in relation to their slight bodies, large symmetrical features, especially eyes, and straight expertly manscaped brows. They photograph well. The camera loves them and in order to make them appear tall in the frame they often…2020-09-0714 min
BEGUILING HOLLYWOOD2 Chapter 1 Hollywood & MineLate in the summer following my sophomore year, I was living in the Beverly Hills home of a blonde former figure skater. This photogenic darling of Orange County had risen from championship skating to spokesperson at Knudsen’s Dairy to management. She married an actor (of sorts) and from there…2020-09-0625 minBEGUILING HOLLYWOOD1 An Introduction to Hollywood & MineHello, now we start our story, all about a Hollywood babysitter who rises to movie mogul. Comfy? Let’s begin… “Some one I love lives in Manhattan. I told him at the outset of the pandemic that what seemed most precious to Californians was toilet paper. He told me, once his…2020-09-0515 min
Allan Helm's PodcastAllan Helm´s Podcast om Blogging (6)En Podcast serie om Blogging är inte komplett om man inte har en episod om hur man startar en blogg.
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Det finns många böcker som handlar om hur man startar en blogg. Jag nämner bl.a Brad Hills bok "Blogging for Dummies" i mitt inslag. jag vill uppmärksamma er på att senare utgåvor av samma bok på samma förlag har andra författare nämligen Shane Birley och Susannah Garner. Orsaken till...2010-03-0504 min