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Nancie Clare

And So It Begins…

Okay, if no one is interested in optioning The Battle for Beverly Hills to turn it into a screenplay, I guess I'll just do it myself....

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Go Ahead, Blame Bill Maher

Image, if you will, a country in which Al Gore had been inaugurated president in January 2001, (he won) instead of George W. Bush. The...

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Continued Musings on a World Without Beverly Hills

Last week I pointed out some of the entertainment vehicles that would never have been made if Beverly Hills had ceased to exist in 1923....

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Imagine a World Without Beverly Hills

You might shrug and think: What difference would it have made if Beverly Hills had been annexed to Los Angeles in 1923? In terms of...

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The Curious Tale of the Peculiar Monument: Part Three, "A Tribute to Those Celebrities…"

(Detail of Will Rogers from the plinth of "Celluloid" ©Jonathan Brown The monument “Celluloid” is situated on an oddly-angled...

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The Curious Tale of the Peculiar Monument: Part Two, The Asymmetrical Approach

(detail of Mary Pickford from the plinth of "Celluloid") ©Jonathan Brown In August, 1957, silent-screen-actress-turned-real-estate-invest...

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The Curious Tale of the Peculiar Monument

Part One: Corrine Griffith, the Somewhat Unlikely Champion of “Celluloid” ©Jonathan Brown Set into a traffic island roughly the shape of...

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Good Idea + Recognizable Name = Attention to an Idea

Recently, novelist and co-owner of Parnassus Books—the bookstore in Nashville on every writer’s bucket list, mine included—Ann Patchett...

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When Rob Lowe Thanked Local Firefighters with a Feast, He Emulated Douglas Fairbanks

Rob Lowe made headlines everywhere from the Twitterverse to old media when he thanked local firefighters in December 2017, by serving...