Teri Keresey is a fashion maven. She teaches Pilates now, but she used to be in charge of Fred Segal Men’s store — and helped countless clueless guys figure out how to look hot. We took my niece Kuu to get an outfit for the Beyonce concert last Saturday… to our other friend Pauline’s house,…
I wasn’t quite sure what “BUYER & CELLAR” was about. It’s a play that’s at The Mark Taper right now, put on by Center Theatre Group, and I’d read great reviews about the crisp writing and how the show would probably translate well to Los Angeles. What I didn’t know was that it would be…
There are a few quality people in life. Charles Johnson, a television producer who’s got major credits, is one of those people. So is James Garner, I’m told. When the actor recently passed away, I wrote Charles a condolence card, telling him how sad I was that he had lost his dear friend. Today I…
“He was supportive from a distance and it was quite romantic in a way.” “For Brangelina, an emoji-filled text just won’t do.” When they were 10,0o0 miles apart, they kept in touch ‘the old-fashioned way’ with love letters. “It was quite romantic,” Jolie, 39 — who directed the World War II drama Unbroken Down Under while…
Because it’s fun to get mail — and to send it — I decided to write Gloria Gordon not one but TWO separate ‘thank you’ notes for the two surprise gifts she got me … it’s more exciting to get something in the mail one day after another, I figured, than one big old letter…
Gloria Gordon is a JTV watcher. Jewelry TV, she says, is like video wallpaper. She resists the urge to buy until sometimes, just sometimes, something is so terrific she can’t stop herself. In the case of this butterfly ring — she knows how much I love the symbolism of butterflies … how they flutter in the…
I attended a bridal shower yesterday — in Teylor’s backyard, where her friends had created an ambience that felt like the old South… with baby’s breath tied on the backs of the festooned chairs… Sangria and Champagne, wine and other beverages to sip… all of it al fresco under the weeping willow branches of her…
I went to undergraduate school at UC Santa Cruz for my first two years. Now that I’ve started to work for Dean David Yager of the Arts Division at UC Santa Cruz — I’m getting the distinct pleasure of re-connecting with friends from long ago… all smart, witty, thoughtful people who I admired then and…
Justin’s got youth, good looks and talent — and something I covet. He’s the proud owner of a portable typewriter he takes on the road when he travels. We made a pledge when I visited him at his office in New York — and he let me bang on the keys — that we’d only…
Guilt is a huge driver. We’ve been told by our parents we need to write ‘thank you’ notes. Stationery stores made a living by enticing people to send greetings year-round. For birthdays. Christmas. Easter. Graduation. We may buy the card — and they’re not cheap — but not do anything more. Or skip the date…
