Nancie Clare

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....

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...

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....

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...

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

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

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

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

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