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Why This Middle-Aged Woman Loved the Facebook Movie: A Response Alexis Kleinman/Highlights of First Week in NYC
I. Eight Days in New York. More happens–more social interaction, more culture, more random stimulation, not to mention more professional networking–in New York City than any place I’ve been or lived. I’m prepared to believe that Paris, London, and a … Continue reading
Posted in Food & Wine, Lifestyle, Literature, Music, Politics, Theater, Travel, Uncategorized, Yale
Tagged Agozar, Alec Baldwin, alexis kleinman, Art Bar, bemelman's, bergdorf goodman, bicoastal brunette, Burger and Barrell, cafe carlyle, delicatessen, Dept of Speculation, dixieland jazz, Duplex, e-cigarettes, East Village, Facebook movie, food, Henley Premium Vapor, Henley Vaporium, huffiington post, Jenny Offill, Joe Allen, lex bar and books, lorin stein, MacDougal Street, McNally Jackson, new york city, New York Magazaine, novels, secondhand scores, SoHo, talia eisenberg, Vive la Crepe, woody allen
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Part I of NYC/Cape Cod Trip Blog and Week in LA (Dance, Blue Jasmine, Flat Tires, Bank Incompetence, PMS Lethargy and Reconnect with Childhood Classmate)
My ambitious writing hopes for the past few days were foiled by a tire blowout on the 101 freeway in Westlake Village, midway between LA and SB. I was lucky to get over to the outside shoulder from the left … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Fashion, Film, Lifestyle, Literature, Philosophy, Relationships, School, St. Augustine, Travel, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls
Tagged Barrington, Blue Jasmine, Cate Blanchett, country clubs, James Bond, Landmark Cinema, luigi jazz dance centre, nyc, RI, Sammy Davis Jr, Something's Gotta Give, upper east side, Wianno Club, woody allen
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New Blog on “The Gift” on Palisades/Brentwood Patch: Pre-Trip Prep on a Sunny Tuesday and Brief Note on John Dryden’s “True Satire”
Reading the weather reports from New York and Boston this last week or two, I realized this will be the first time since 1996 that I have experienced bitter cold. As I have promised New York friends–one in particular … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Theater, Uncategorized
Tagged aaron sorkin, Alec Baldwin, blogging, Discourse on the Progres and Original of Satire, Ellen Paige, Geffen Playhouse, Hama Dance Center, Joanna Murray-Smith, John Dryden, new york city, satire, snow, Sports Night, The Gift, to rome, winter, with love, woody allen
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Happy Fiesta Weekend from Santa Barbara! (Plus Preview of “To Rome, With Love” Rave and Reflections on Victorian Chick’s “Rarefied” Life)
I am back from New York (and the Cape/Barrington, Rhode Island), happily ensconced with J and the animals on a stunning, sunny Saturday after a morning of clouds and drizzle. I didn’t plan to return on Thursday, August 2nd because … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Film, Health & Beauty, Lifestyle, Literature, Philosophy, Travel, UCSB, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
Tagged 1%, 360 State Street, amy waldman, big law, deconstruction, fiesta, graduate school, harvard westlake, husbands and wives, kathy reich, literary theory, manhattan, midnight in paris, new haven, o'melveny and myers, post-structuralism, taft apartments, to rome, upper east side, upper west side, west los angeles, westlake school for girls, with love, woody allen, yale, Yale Club of LA
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“Now I’m Alive, When I’m Dead I’ll Be Dead”: Hannah and Her Sisters, One of the All-Time Great Scenes/Leaving for LA
My friend Hans posted the song “Bewitched, Bothered and Bewildered” on FB this morning. I adore this song but because I am younger than he, I associate it primarily with Woody Allen and Hannah and Her Sisters. I am quite … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Film, School, Travel, UCSB, Uncategorized, Westlake School For Girls, Yale
Tagged afterlife, athiesm, BU, cambridge, columbia, debate, english studies, god, hannah and her sisters, harvard, high school, immortality, new haven, new york city, penn, philadelphia, princeton, religion, secularism, westlake, woody allen, wwii, yale
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Sweet, Funny Inconsequential Movie from 1984: Gotcha, The Last Seduction Meditation re Gender Roles, Woody Allen’s Alice and Blythe Danner
Just a silly shortish note, inspired when I went to Soho, a club in Santa Barbara, for a Christmas rock-and-roll show, at which a friend of my friend’s was singing. J had work to do and never made it and … Continue reading
Posted in Celebrities (Classy Ones), Facebook Notes, Fashion, Film, Lifestyle, School, St. Augustine, Television, Westlake School For Girls
Tagged alice, anthony edwards, bill pullman, blythe danner, family ties, gary goldberg, gotcha, gwyneth paltrow, kevin james, linda fiorientino, peter berg, shana goldberg, the king of queens, woody allen
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