Monthly Archives: August 2023

Vivendi-Universal was on the other side of that merger. Posh corporate offices. People who’d been there 30 years or more. I was the customer service representative for their website, iclassics.com. I wanted to overhaul the entire company. Place publicity where … Continue reading →

Pink and Black. I’d bought a pink Agnes B sweater at the local Aids charity. I wore it with my black suit. They wanted to hire me on as the assistant to the executive director, but I wanted to be … Continue reading →

At last, a Hollywood party. Our CEO Scott Greenstein had been a lawyer at Miramax before instrumenting a merger between October Films and Gramercy Pictures / Polygram Filmed Entertainment. The big deal about Polygram was they held the sports contracts … Continue reading →

My friend Abby went to LA. International Creative Management. Hired on as the Assistant to a Literary Agent, she followed her boyfriend Douglas to UCLA where he was a Master’s Degree student in the Jazz Institute. She came back looking … Continue reading →

I had a problem. It was my first year out of film school and I didn’t have Virginity, but I wasn’t sexually active, either. My producing professor asked me what I wanted after film school and I replied, “to work … Continue reading →

The History of Editing. Katherine Hubris-Cherrier taught the class. She had the Hollywood look I liked so much. Flouncy black chiffon skirts. Black leather jackets and fuck-me boots. I saw the movie “Weekend” because of her. Jean-Luc Goddard. At Kim’s … Continue reading →

Knowing that he’d missed out on my Virginity, Simon invited me out. Actually, he requested to go somewhere he could smoke. Marlborough Lights. Somewhere it is written aspiring directors have to wear Moleskine, navy blue against his Sapphire Blue eyes. … Continue reading →

The Met. The undisputed leader of institutions in America. I heard they bought a Velasquez so I went to see it. I ended up impressed by the Van Dyck. My husband, of course. When he wasn’t the Van Gogh hanging … Continue reading →

Everett Frost had tenure. I took his class. The Art of Sound. It should have been the Colloquium, but it wasn’t. He worked on “The Heart of Darkness” which is the movie about Francis Ford Coppola making “Apocalypse Now.” He … Continue reading →