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RIP James Gandolfini
I was on Twitter early this afternoon when news of Gandolfini’s sudden death in Italy broke. There was an immediate outpouring from his fellow actors but also from us regular folks. Everyone was...
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How I Spent My Summer Vacation
Yesterday I spent the day with my old friend Lois Juliber. I hadn’t seen her in years because I live on the west coast and she lives on the east coast and we lead very different lives these days. When...
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Movie Night: “Blue Jasmine”
I ran to see this one on its first night in Santa Barbara, partly because the reviews have been uniformly great and partly because I love Cate Blanchett and partly because I was starved for movies...
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Movie Night: “American Masters/Billy Jean King”
I was really looking forward to this documentary and it didn’t disappoint. I’ve been a tennis fan and a Billie Jean fan since I was old enough to hold a racquet. I remember going out to my...
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Movie Night: “Muhammed Ali’s Greatest Fight”
If I hadn’t read an interview with Christopher Plummer in yesterday’s Daily Beast, I might not have known this HBO original movie was on last night, but I’m glad I did because the movie was utterly...
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My Current Obsession
Now that I’ve finished watching Season 2, I’m feeling bereft, lost, hungry for more. “House of Cards” is addictive that way. I’ve been trying to wean myself off of the show but instead I read and...
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My Mad, Mad, Mad Men Love
After the last “House of Cards” season wrapped, I took a breather and then dove head first into “Mad Men,” and now the characters are haunting my dreams. My waking moments too. That’s what happens...
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Mad Men Finale Part 1
Photo: Frank Ockenfels/AMC I still can’t believe last night’s “Mad Men” finale was all we’ll see until next year. It feels like such a tease to have the last season split into two years’ worth of...
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My Other Identity Revealed!
Why am I posting this cover? Because the author, Hilary Rose, is none other than moi! The details of Hilary and her novella are right here but the long and short of it is that I was presented with a...
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Eating (and More Eating) in My New ‘Hood
I didn’t actually order the above menu item at @ the corner (yes, that’s the name of the restaurant, since it’s right on the corner of the charming town of Litchfield). I ordered the “salmon...
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What I Read, Watched and Ate: Favorites of Summer 2015
I know, I know. I could have posted a pic of late summer tomatoes, which have been luscious here in CT. Or corn on the cob, fish on the grill, a lobster roll or an ice cream cone. Instead, I gave you...
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Movie Night: “Steve Jobs”
Let me just get it off my chest without any preamble: I hated this movie. I hated it so much I was tempted to trash all my Apple devices as soon as I got home. I had no expectation that I would walk...
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