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TRUMAN CAPOTE
The young Truman Capote of “Other Voices”. Beaton worried that success had changed Truman, and he wrote in his diary that “he looks like a tycoon, thickset, well-dressed, no longer the little gnome of...
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SWIM, GIRL, SWIM – 1928 – GERTRUDE EDERLE AND BEBE DANIELS
This is Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to swim the English Channel in 1926. I believe she’s covered in grease as insulation against the cold water… Here she is cleaned up and coaching movie stars…...
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I MET THE MISTER ON A MOVIE SET
That’s me in the middle with two green goblins who never made it to the screen. Actually, it’s not the movie I met my husband on, that was another movie a few months earlier. My mother was tired of me...
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I MET THE MISTER ON A MOVIE SET – CON’T
Another picture from the second movie I worked on. Hm, I guess I liked the color red. Here we are on a butte or a mesa (I don’t know what the difference is) in Arizona preparing to blow up a bus. As I...
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Biggest ego, tiniest toupée, and the award goes to Kevin Spacey!
Damn it. I’ve had about eight hours sleep in the last 48 hours, but a deal’s a deal. We’re going to talk about hair pieces. Something you’ll never see John Travolta or Kevin Spacey do: I mean steal Mr....
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Vickie Lester is utterly beguiled by author Ben Vendetta, and a post punk...
There’s enchantment here, and the precision of memory laid down to a throbbing beat: The next day I decide to go to London and meet Nick Danger. Dave probably meant well, but it’s pretty obvious that...
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I went grey at 34 – and you?
That’s me last week, considering the posts of yesterday it’s pretty evident my hairstyle is deeply influenced by my natal decade… Although, I’ve never gotten the eyeliner thing down. Mr. L and I have...
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Reprise—award season, and Vickie Lester has to speak out about: beauty...
Women in Hollywood aren’t encouraged to reflect life experience in their faces… Which is rather ironic considering their faces become “faces” because they’re expected to do just that; inhabit a role,...
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