Chuck Larsen is my personal clipping service. He manages to catch EVERYTHING — and I mean EVERYTHING — about typewriters that’s happening on the Westside. He’s found black beauties in Cuba and brought back the tales of their Hemingway history. He’s noticed them in Outer Mongolia. He’s incredible. When he sent me this story in…
People notice typewriters when they’re out & about. Sometimes, if I’m lucky, they’ll tell me about one. Or even better, take a shot of it. Karen & Roger were out for a walk in their neighborhood when Karen spotted this one in a window on Beverly Boulevard. They didn’t tell me where the store was,…
I got back from Rhode Island School of Design — where I zoomed through days of non-stop meetings — and came home in time to throw a surprise birthday party for my friend Darlene. It was a hit, and she was totally dumbstruck. (I now know what the term “jaw-drop” looks like!) I had a…
When I went in for my annual visit to see Dr. Ross, my gastroenterologist, she asked how I was… and I could see on the front of her file one of my typed notes. “Do you have anything for me?: she asked … and I shoved my typed “To Do” list at her. “”I’m still…
I’m a long-time “JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE” viewer. So addicted am I that when I went to a sleep psychologist to figure out how I could curb my insomnia, he diagnosed part of the problem: I was staying up every night to watch “Jimmy Kimmel”. When I started cutting out the last half-hour, my sleep…
Dessert is my specialty. Brownies — made by me, but from a box (shhhh — don’t tell!) I am always grateful to be included in Darlene Basch’s dinner parties. Usually I write a note immediately thereafter. Somehow it slipped off my radar until today, almost a week later. Luckily I had this picture from Ethan…
We have a tradition. Gloria Gordon, Gloria Shepard, Donna Guillaume and I share our birthdays at The Grove. Cheesecake Factory first. Then the two Glorias and I high-tail it over to Forever 21, where we find junk jewelry that seems like high-end treasures to us. Gloria Shepard sent me these pictures after she had them…
We didn’t meet Ron Burkle, who generously opened his magnificent estate for the 20th year to the Rape Center luncheon — but I wanted to tell him ‘thank you’ anyway. These are the kinds of letters I write because I believe in the power of thank you … even when I’m just one of the…
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…
I had a delightful morning yesterday when BRIAN KORBEL, a friend of Vin’s whom I’d met at a party we gave a few months ago, came over with his wife and granddaughter GEORGIE. They showed up with not one but THREE typewriters Brian had saved — including the very first he owned, that he was…
