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A Modern Hollywood Whodunnit | Silver Screenings – click on the “side-eye”...
Lester seems to give the side-eye to some of the characters in her novel, and you find yourself wondering how closely some of these folks might be modelled on current A-list stars. Yet she tempers...
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People get married for all kinds of reasons…click on the picture
What, exactly, did Cliff tell you about my husband? pg. 66, It’s in His Kiss
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Sometimes there is no light at the end of the tunnel…click on the picture
Anne’s mood switched abruptly from near-terror to anger; she felt fury at the Escalade’s driver and deliberately pressed the “Sport” button on the dash, tapped the paddle shift on the steering column,...
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Where the elite are never discrete…click on the picture
Anne expected The Buccaneers to be some gimcrack, seedy nightmare, covered on the outside with weathered wooden panels while within would be a world of piratical tack with swags and ropes and men in...
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Everything’s blue skies, best friends, and damn—I just can’t shut up about...
Why I love my friends so very, very much: Dear Vickie, I’m still laughing and trying to wrap my head around, “I published my book by accident!” OMG! With all the little tedious details, the...
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Joan Collins, in the words of Mr. Lester, “Zowie!”
“Have you met my significant other?” Anne shook her head, expecting him to introduce a strapping young man, possibly, most likely, in the acting profession. Instead he blew a kiss to a taught, angular...
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Ms. Lester Regrets (Nothing)! For It’s A Book Club World, After All!
Photo by Slim Aarons, the Kaufmann House, Palm Springs. Caption by an anonymous wit, frequent raconteur, and literary sister… There’s a lot of talk these days about the seismic changes in the...
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Quoth I, Vickie Lester, in days of yore we knew not sunblock…
Which yore? Judging from the attire and upturned color I’d say it was the early 1980s. I’m pretending to be my glamorous fashionista aunt, no doubt, chin up, hips turned slightly for the camera. Too...
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“…looking as out of place as a John Singer Sargent painting hung on a...
Anne walked out into the police station’s reception area and was heading for the door when she spied Becky Nelson bedecked in a Chanel suit, looking as out of place as a John Singer Sargent painting...
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Oh my stars! Swept off my feet! The most charming director of photography...
- 5.0 out of 5 stars VickieLesterMagicCarpetRide October 3, 2014 By Paul Hughen Verified Purchase(What’s this?) This review is from: It’s In His Kiss (Paperback) - Let Vickie Lester sweep you away on...
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I’ll tell ya what I’m thankful for…
Plenty. First of all I grew up with loving parents who were wary of the fishbowl of fame. Now, if you’ve been reading along for the past couple of years you know that Cary Grant is not my daddy, but I...
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Cheers! And goodbye to gall that…another thing I am very thankful for!
I am happy to say my cup runneth over. These days I feel très bien, which is in stark contrast to the past year when I thought my general malaise — feeling low and kind of punk — had to do with being...
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I am thankful for you…
For editors, for digital savants, for connoisseurs of scent, for kind hearts around the world, for book clubs, and for this thing we call the Internet. Edith Head and Gloria Swanson, 1950 The places...
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Reprise: I have a Pavlovian response, and when I’m feeling peaked I have to...
When I was a youngster we didn’t spend much time there. My mother spoke of it disdainfully saying, “It’s fine if you’re a Republican or play golf,” neither the party or the sport interested her. I...
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