https://celebrity.yahoo.com/news/jane-fonda-gets-personal-rape-foundation-brunch-230831727.html It was a star-studded event. Kevin and Claudia invited us, and when we got to the house in Beverly Hills, we were escorted along with 999 other people through a huge backyard that resembled Versailles. A sit-down lunch for 1,000 … hard to believe. Stories of young women who were sexually assaulted — even…
We sponsored a busy weekend last Saturday. My mother flew in from Palo Alto. My niece Kuu flew in from Eugene, Oregon. And my nephew Reid drove up from Newport Beach to be part of a dinner to honor “CAMP KESEM”, a non-profit camp for children whose parents have died or are dying of cancer….
“@midnight” is a ‘comedy themed internet related comedy improv show’. My friend John Stewart is the man on the floor — he’s a Stage Manager who seems to know every aspect of how it runs. When I got there tonight for a reunion with our friend Marty Pasetta, Jr. — who was A.D.’ing for a…
Chuck and Ava Fries are a powerhouse couple. When they first began dating, Ava would tell Chuck stories about how she was running a troop of Girl Scouts in Beverly Hills. He said, “Why don’t you make a movie out of this?” And so they did. “TROOP BEVERLY HILLS” is a cult classic now, and…
Garry and Ramyne Spire invited me — last minute — to the Hollywood Bowl on Thursday night. It was 9-11, they said, and symbolic because they’d been at the Bowl with their then-young sons the night of that terrible tragedy. As a tribute, they’d planned to reconvene at the Bowl to honor those we lost….
Lois Weber, is turns out, was one of the most well-known directors of her time almost 100 years ago. Professor Shelley Stamp gave us a spirited discourse the other night about how women directors have been largely “erased” from the history books. I wanted Professor Stamp to know how much I appreciated her insights. Please…
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His business card says “BALLOON ART … TEAM BUILDING”. with the words “Expand and Elevate” underneath. Addi Somekh was at the University of California networking event last night at Quixote Studios in Los Angeles. He told me that among other talents — he’s a producer as well — he does balloon art. “Don’t show anyone,”…
Julia Newman runs the Parents’ Council at Rhode Island School of Design. She came out here to oversee a party at the home of a parent in Malibu — after we’d exchanged a few e-mails and calls about agenda, guests, and general ideas on how to handle the party. (I’ve given 4 or them before,…
Jim Higley is the new Development Director for Camp Kesem. He and outgoing Development Director, Laura Probst, came to introduce Jim to me — since I’ve been involved peripherally with the Camp Kesem folks since the very beginning. We had a deep, instant connection — about losing family members to cancer… how to deal with…
