What We Go Through, Girls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                       Darlings, I am telling you, "Valley Of The Dolls" is the story of us all.  I relate to this scene very well.  I have to take stuff to sleep so, like Neely, I can sparkle enough to write this blog every day.

                         Of course, my drink of choice is coffee, not booze!!!!!!!!!!!  I hardly ever touch the stuff.

                         But I know what Neely is going through.  How many times have I been on a stage where the lighting designer blazes a point so hot I swear he is frying me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  As Neely says, "I SAID I am through for the day!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

                           Not that I would ever abandon my girls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  But it is hard to operate at full speed when you are only up to half.  Maybe I SHOULD take some dolls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                            Or, you know what, darlings?  "I'll do the second act first!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

                            The audience won't care.  They love me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Had It With Winter, Girls??????????? Consider These Floral Designs!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

                            I finished my fourth reading of "Anna Karenina" two days ago.  It took me 17 days, was worth every word, but I had hoped to finish it earlier.  Now, I have a pile of contemporary books to read before beginning my next mammoth project.

                            Spring is a time of brightening colors and celebrating the creativity of nature, darlings, and I can think of no better way than brightening your room with floral wall designs like these.  You too can have a home resembling the set of a Technicolor Vincente Minnelli movie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                            The colored, almost three dimensional, flowers in the middle are my favorite, but the white with flowers above would go great in the bedroom.  Oh, dolls, can't you just see it???????????????

                             I would love to decorate this way.  Of course, my designs would have to include some pink!!!!!!!!!!!!

                             "Think Pink," girls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

"On This Day, In The Year Of Our Lord, 1692, The People Of Whitewood, Massachusetts, Condemned Elizabeth Selwyn As A Witch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

                               "Most God-fearing people do not go to Whitewood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

                                Nor should they, darlings, because a year after her death, Elizabeth Selwyn was seen walking among the graves in the cemetery.  Soon after, the children of the elders who condemned her began dying off, one by one.

                                  Personally, I would love to go to Whitewood, even if I ran into Mrs. Nywles.  I stand a chance, not being a virgin.  But if it is one thing I hate, it is cults, and Selwyn and her group are one of the most dangerous cults out there.  So, I would not desire being recruited.

                                     I mean, what could it give me?  That hair?  That wardrobe?  Who would want it?????  Maybe Elizabeth Selwyn turned to witchcraft because she could not get a date!  People have done less, I am sure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                        Still, it is fun to celebrate this day.  But if there are any virgins still out there, stay away from Whitewood!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                            Where does one find a virgin these days???????????????

Happy Birthday To Jennifer Jones!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                 If alive, she would be 107 today, which means she has been gone 17 years, since she died at age 90!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Can you believe it, darlings??????????  Seventeen years!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                   This is one of her best non-'Bernadette' photos.  She had an illustrious career but will always be remembered for her Oscar winning performance in "The Song Of Bernadette."

                                      And, in just a couple of weeks, girls, it will be Easter Sunday, time; to get out the DVD and watch the 1943 classic again.

                                         She was just stunning!  Could Sally Hershberger give me that hair style??????????????????

                                         No wonder girls in the 40's wanted to look like her.

                                         Hell, I still do!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Happy 61st Birthday To "The Sound Of Music!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

                           On this day, in 1965, Julie Andrews did that twirl first time so the world could see and then lifted her glorious voice to the Alps in song.  "The Sound Of Music was off and running, and no one then could have anticipated what it would become, let alone still be being discussed 61 years later.

                              Of course, the sad thing is Charmian Carr and my favorite Heather Menzies are not here to celebrate it.  Sure, many of the adults are gone, but, really, the children?  It is just too sad to contemplate.

                                  I made it to the 60th Anniversary of the film, at which I had an unexpected and profound emotional reaction.

                                   But I still wanted to remember the film on its anniversary day!

                                   Those owning DVDs, today is the day to watch!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                    I shall wait for the next theater screening.

                                    Happy SOM Day, darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, Darlings, Bring Back Thirties Art Deco!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                           That is Ronald Colman and Jane Wyatt (yes, the same actress who played Kathy's (Dorothy McGuire) biased sister in 1947 "Gentleman's Agreement," not to mention Margaret Anderson on "Father Knows Best!!!!!!!!!!!!") in Frank Capra's 1937 adaptation of James Hilton's novel "Lost Horizon."

                             Capra would seem an odd choice to direct a story about a group of people who discover an enchanting place called Shangri-La.  Even more interesting is that the set designer took not an Asian approach, but a Thirties Art Deco one!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                 Girls, isn't this shot captivating?  Who wouldn't want their own Art Deco estate just like this?????????  The photo is so hypnotic.

                                    I saw this movie in eighth grade, when we studied the novel in English class.  I wonder if anyone reads it anymore?  Or it is it still in print??????????  Who knows?????????

                                     But what an enchanting garden to walk into each morning or just sit in a chair and read all day!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                      Art Deco is a style having been lost but needs to come back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                     Get rid of all this Modernism junk, girls!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

Welcome, March, Darlings!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                               To think we are already one-sixth through 2026!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                                Le mois du printemps!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

                               March means many things to many people.  In like a lion, out like a lamb, or.........?????????????   In just twenty days Proserpina comes back from Hell, and the weather gets nicer., because Spring is coming.   There is also St. Patrick's Day, and Palm Sunday.  On March 19, it is St. Joseph's Day, and the swallows return to Capistrano.  The Oscars are in two weeks, for those who still care.

                                     Yes, March is full of exciting events, and the freshness of Spring.  It is also Mammoth Books Month, when one is supposed to read a book of 800 pages or more.  Well, I have done due diligence, because I am coming down the home stretch on "Anna Karenina."  And "Svengoolie" is having some gems, including maybe the original "Friday The 13th," with Besty Palmer, and that fan favorite, "House On Haunted Hill," with Vincent Price.

                                         There is much to look forward to in March, and after what we went through with the storms in January and February, I am glad it is here.

                                            At last, girls!!!!!!!!!!  "Le Sacre Du Printemps!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"