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Nancie Clare
Apr 5, 20191 min read
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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Nancie Clare
May 6, 20183 min read
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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Nancie Clare
Feb 25, 20182 min read
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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Nancie Clare
Feb 15, 20181 min read
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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Nancie Clare
Feb 6, 20184 min read
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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Nancie Clare
Jan 29, 20183 min read
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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Nancie Clare
Jan 23, 20182 min read
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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Nancie Clare
Jan 8, 20182 min read
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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Nancie Clare
Jan 5, 20181 min read
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...
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