We’re having some server problems so the site is slow and posting is difficult. My apologies. We should be on a new machine, soon.
Here’s some interesting things I saw this past week.
In the new National Geographic, New York when Henry Hudson first saw it in 1609:
Apparently, author Somerset Maugham was not a very nice fellow. Noel Coward called him “The Lizard of Oz”.
Gerald also preyed on housemaids, debutantes and married women, and liked to boast that while in Siam he had bought a 12-year-old girl for a tin of condensed milk.
Another remembrance of Dominick Dunne, this one from the LA Times.
Like Truman Capote, another social chronicler, Dunne often bit the well-manicured hands that fed him. A friend of Alfred and Betsy Bloomingdale of the department store fortune, he turned Alfred’s relationship with his mistress, Vicki Morgan, into a roman a clef, “An Inconvenient Woman” (1990). Similarly, Dunne, who had been a guest at the 1950 wedding of Robert F. Kennedy and Ethel Skakel, turned his theories about the culpability of Ethel’s nephew, Michael Skakel, in a long-unsolved slaying into another novel, “A Season in Purgatory” (1993). Skakel ultimately was tried and convicted. His cousin, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., blamed Dunne for the conviction and told talk show host Larry King that the writer was “not a journalist. He’s a gossip columnist.”
My very dear friend Jozef Szekeres of Black Mermaid makes incredible dolls.
I’m not a doll collector, but this is the word of a lady who has a dozen dolls. Including Jozef’s.
A wonderful website with a very entertaining gallery of propaganda posters.
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