My very sweet friend Lee Thompson of Madness as I met him.
“And yet, here was a man with whom I had not had sex and that was a big problem for her.” Chanel Bonfire
London Ladies Who Lunch — Chanel Bonfire
Here’s to the ladies who lunch!
Marian Montgomery in the headscarf, next to Mary Broomfield in pale yellow with hands clasped. Cigarettes, cold white wine and maybe a chicken salad for those who were hungry…
Behind that wall, the IRA bomb went off. Mother wrote songs with Marian who recorded them and sang one of them “The Summerhouse” on the BBC. I’ll post a digital version when I can find it.
Fatal Glamour
The Guthrie Theater in Minneapolis. Designed by Ralph Rapson and completed in 1963 with one of the first thrust stages in America, designed by Tanya Moiseiwitsch.
Peter Zeisler, Sir Tyrone Guthrie and Oliver Rea — founders of the theater.
“Oliver Rea was a successful Broadway producer who, disenchanted with the New York theater scene, had moved his family to Minneapolis to found the Guthrie Theater, where he and Sir Tyrone Guthrie, a scion of the English stage, planned to produce serious classical theater….He wasn’t handsome but had a craggy allure and an air of mystery that mother found fatally glamorous.” — Chanel Bonfire
Hotel Sydney Opera in Paris
The Hotel Sydney Opera in Paris! Now a spiffy Best Western.
With the much-cleaned air-shaft — location of the infamous Henry VIII chicken bone scene in Chanel Bonfire.
“Despite that our school French hadn’t included so much cursing, we were able to decipher that our window opened onto the air shaft where the hotel dried its clean linen. We ran to the window and looked down to see white sheets stained with grease and strewn with chicken bones.” — Chanel Bonfire
Pick of the Weekend March 9/10
USA Today doubles down on Chanel! This Weekend Picks For Book Lovers!
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/books/2013/03/09/book-picks-for-the-weekend/1954965/
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Crazy double exposure picture of mother, on the landing strip in Morocco right before we left in a private plane to cross the Zagora desert, to Ouarzate. Love the English gent behind her…
Once the movie camera in her hands turned on in her purse. It made for a very funny movie of her lipstick and compact in the dark interspersed with glimpses of the bright sky when she opened the purse. Wish I had it but, as we know, there were very few survivors.
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Robbie and me in our playclothes from Dayton’s…
Every summer our dad would meet our plane at the Minneapolis Airport. He’d take one look at our Florence Eiseman dresses and polished Mary Janes and take us straight to Dayton’s Department store (where Mary Tyler Moore tosses her hat in the air) to buy Garanimals, Keds and dungarees that we could get dirty and muddy and wet and be kids in.
One minute and 45 seconds of LAS FLORES DEL VICIO, and believe me, that’s enough.
Mother ran off to Spain with her pals Win Wells (here in the blue and white shirt, and heavy eyeliner) and Silvio Narizzano (Director of “Georgy Girl”), to write songs for the movie. Carroll Baker sings one while she drowns in a fountain during a wild party. Dennis Hopper also starred.
Oh, and quiz for the day: Who was originally cast in the Carroll Baker role but fired when she arrived in Spain too big to fit any of her costumes?