We attended a luncheon today to brainstorm how to get people to better know The Smithsonian — and its mission. They told us to go online to see the antics of Tian Tian, the baby panda. (Here seen rolling in the snow a few days ago). I got home early enough to write our hostess a…
I forgot my little dish — that’s part of a set — when I had lunch at Nan Tepper’s last Saturday. We all worked together at KNXT, the local CBS station, in the Newsroom. Nan Tepper was our beloved boss. We did research, Assignment Editor work, and whatever else we could to make the nightly…
It was a long time ago that I graduated from UCLA and got my first job as a Production Assistant in the Newsroom. I worked in Research at the Assignment Desk, then moved up to work in the office of the Assistant News Director — largely because I typed, I suspect. * Many of my…
A group of women who all worked at KNXT (the CBS affiliate here in Los Angeles) have been getting together for years. I just joined the group recently and have experienced a joy at seeing strong, experienced women who lived to tell the tale of breaking down sexist barriers in the Newsroom back in the…
We helped organize a dinner for the “Gull Wing Mercedes Group” last night at The Jonathan Club downtown. About 50 of us, and Vin got a traveling violinist, who strolled the room bare-legged and beautiful, sawing away at her violin. We had carolers, covered head to toe in formal green & red gowns & tuxedoes…
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When I went with GLORIA GORDON and GLORIA SHEPARD to see the Hollywood Museum a few months ago, I wore my ‘typewriter purse’. Donelle Dadigan, the Founder of the Hollywood Museum, fell in love with it. I figured she’d like the concept since she’s big on preserving and honoring the past. Since Kate Spade hasn’t made…
I went to see “WIESENTHAL” at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts. The air conditioning was out on the one-man show, but TOM DUGAN, who was the actor AND playwright, never let us feel the heat… he told the story of the indefatigable Nazi hunter beautifully, and I hastened to thank him for his…
After I saw “ALLEGIANCE”, a moving musical about 120,000 Japanese-Americans who were interned in camps during World War II by our own governmemt here in the States…. I had the privilege to talk about George Takei’s musical with Director John Gray of The National Museum of American History. I wanted to connect the dots — so I…
I can always count on CHRISTINA HARTLEY, who’s Director of Alumni Relations at Rhode Island School of Design, to come up with a great card. This postcard — with its precious birds on front — caught my eye when it spilled out of my mailbox today. We had dinner after Adam Silverman’s lecture on his…
