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Merry Christmas Week to Victorian Chick Readers! A Story of Christmases and Christmas Trees Past by a Christmas Tree Jew
A Facebook friend and Rockette-turned-artist I finally met in Hoboken this October noted that people were too exhausted on December 26th to wade through a long, rigorous blog about academic politics, the death of journalism, and aesthetic theory: “Today is … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Food & Wine, Lifestyle, St. Augustine, Travel, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls
Tagged Christmas, Christmas Tree Jews, christmas trees, Columbus Circle, la, montecito, my sister's closet, new york city, Ornaments, secular jews, Stephen Nissenbaum
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Not Enough Said in “Enough Said”: Nicole Holofcener’s Grim Vision of Angelenos and Dating in Middle Age
Ed note: This is a spoiler review. It is impossible to explain my disappointment with the film without revealing the plot. *** When the credits to Enough Said finished rolling at Cinema 1-2-3 on Manhattan’s Upper East Side, a block … Continue reading
Posted in Film, Lifestyle, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Catherine Keener, Enough Said, James Gandolfini, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, la, middle-age, Nicole Holofcener, nyc
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Happy Friday from Hot Santa Barbara! Fun 2nd Anniversary Weekend With J (Solo Second Viewing Tonight of To Rome, With Love and Preliminary Note on Evan Handler’s “Time on Fire: My Comedy of Terrors”)
Ed. note: After writing this last night, J and I watched the last two episodes of Californication, Season 2. They were the best two episodes of the second season and I will write about them later. Charley Runkel really does … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrities (Classy Ones), Health & Beauty, Lifestyle, Relationships, Television, Uncategorized
Tagged californication, cocaine addiction, dan tanas, David Duchovny, evan handler, it's only temporary, Julliard, la, marriage, natasha mcelhone, neil simon, nyc, Paradigm, SBAC, time on fire: my comedy of terrors, troubadour, west hollywood
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At Cafe Stella on a Picture Perfect Day on Way to See My Favorite WWII Veteran after Three Weeks Away
A surprising, sunny day in June in Santa Barbara! It’s been 21 days since I left LA for SB to fly to NYC and I’ve collected Pico Iyer notes and Psycho Therapy furious scribblings on envelopes for Cherry Lane Theater subscriptions … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Food & Wine, Lifestyle, Theater, Travel, Uncategorized
Tagged Barney's, Doobie, Harry's Burrito, Hip Sips, la, luigi jazz dance, nyc, pets, upper west side
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Goodbye to the City From Santa Barbara: Yale, New Haven, Luigi Pictures (Minus “Remembering Shakespeare” at Beinecke Library) with Captions
Ed. note: WiFi spotty on American Airlines so I am posting this after a great re-entry to Santa Barbara with J, Emma and Ollie. I had a terrific brunch at Cafe Stella: crab/avocado melt with fontina on rye with Pays … Continue reading
Posted in Fashion, Food & Wine, Theater, Travel, UCSB, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged American Airlines, amtrak, Basta, berkeley college, Bloomberg, cafe stella, Claire's, English, la, luigi jazz dance centre, metro north, Mory's, New Haven Hotel, nyc, Owl Shop, Psycho Therapy: Couples Counseling for Three, sb, taft apartments, upper east side, Vanderbilt Hall, yale, Yale Repertory, Yale School of Drama, York Street
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Childhood Recollections of Movies with My Mother; Favorite Mike Nichols Films; Ally Macbeal; Ishtar [Revised/Old FB Note]
My favorite Mike Nichols movies, because I am nearly 39, not 55, are not Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Graduate, Carnal Knowledge or Catch-22 . I did see some of the first movie because the last boyfriend, 56 now … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrities (Classy Ones), Family, Film, St. Augustine, Television, Travel, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
Tagged absence of malice, biloxi blues, cynthia nixon, dustin hoffman, elaine may, gwyneth paltrow, ishtar, jack nicholson, kramer vs kramer, la, matthew broderick, melanie mayron, meryl streep, mike nichols, moonlight and valentino, ny, postcards from the edge, terms of endearment, thirtysomething
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