she wrote the screenplay for the very controversial filmPretty Baby(and also produced), she was executive vice president of James Brooks’ production company. She was the first woman in the Art Directors’ Guild. (This is nothing to cheer about though. It was the 1970...
fourteen-year-old Lydia was awakened by Japanese machine gun bullets slamming into the wall next to her bed. The enemy rounds had passed just over her head and would’ve killed her had she been sitting up. Not fully
dressing up really pretty, and then I remember waking the stairs [to the club] and hearing my dad’s band — he was playing with his brothers. This is in Oakland and I can hear the music. We got to the door, he saw my mom and ...
Silver hung on to the pony's thick mane, and felt his warmth on her fingers. Now she understood why Abel Darkwater's house was so cold. It wasn't because it was an old house like Tanglewreck; it was to keep him alive. That was why he had no electric lights, and that was why ...
” We weren’t that far along but that’s how it unfolded. I remember going back up to my room and thinking: that’s pretty fucking brilliant. It was like an epiphany. But when it he said he wanted to do it, I was like, “the issue is that you’re a big name in the comedy...
From Susi Sanlier in Germany, one sweet surprise after another. The envelope was adorned with beautiful watercolor rose trimmed in gold pen. On the back a sticker that said, “All you need is love, and vegan chocolate”. Inside, two gorgeous postcards, and her business card that is also ...
when she wrote that piece. The piece, as I said, was in an underground magazine, but it created a wave. Out of that wave, she was given a column on rock and pop music inThe New Yorker, the first of its kind. She literally had no established fingerprint as a cultural commentator. Th...
Sheila had taken time to think when she said ‘and now… and I believe… and it was,’ the fact that she took time to think about what she was going to say supports the remorse that she possesses. Her language has shown her rejection to the patriarchal world she lives in, within ...
as a high intensity pre-race season. Bing warns“be ready — it’s a tough one, and you can expect to be sore. It’s something we like to call “Type-2 Fun”: really hard work that leaves you tired but proud of your efforts.“Bing’s fastest round was 1:39. Can you beat it...
She never wrote me back again. Some time later, I was more than a little outraged to discover she was working on another book with another writer – this one, I gather, slightly less of a hard sell, maybe? Or was it since Iwasn’tan overnight sensation I had been dropped like a ho...