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Make America Second Rate Again!
For a few weeks now I’ve been waiting to see the news story that European universities and scientific establishments were extending...

Nancie Clare
Mar 252 min read
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Retirement Has Been Cancelled
So, what exactly is going on in the U.S.’s financial arena? When it’s clearly demonstrable that the see-saw application and retractions...

Nancie Clare
Mar 101 min read
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Almond Butter, Cousin of Marzipan
Like everyone else on the planet, there are foods I find mildly distasteful, lima beans, those I dislike—olives of any color, kale—and...

Nancie Clare
Jan 21 min read
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It Occurs to Me…
Yeah, okay, so I haven't written a blog post in almost six years. Bite me. But I need to express some things and it's not gonna be on FB...

Nancie Clare
Dec 13, 20241 min read
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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....

Nancie Clare
Apr 5, 20191 min read
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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...

Nancie Clare
May 6, 20183 min read
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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....

Nancie Clare
Feb 25, 20182 min read
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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...

Nancie Clare
Feb 15, 20181 min read
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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...

Nancie Clare
Feb 6, 20184 min read
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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...

Nancie Clare
Jan 29, 20183 min read
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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...

Nancie Clare
Jan 23, 20182 min read
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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...

Nancie Clare
Jan 8, 20182 min read
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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...

Nancie Clare
Jan 5, 20181 min read
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