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Do You Remember? Ingrid Bergman’s Fall from Movie Royalty
This is second installment of my new series: Do You Remember? Tell me, do you recall the extramarital affair with nearly destroyed Ingrid Bergman’s career? What do you think of how this affair shook...
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The Evolution of Wigs and Hair Pieces
In one of my two Works in Progress (WIP), my main character chooses to wear a disguise. However, as I write in the Regency Period, the use of wigs, as were common in the 18th Century, had gone by the...
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Doo Wop Quiz – Are You Old Enough to Pass This One?
Doo Wop Quiz – Are You Old Enough to Pass This One? My special friend, George Arnold, sent me this in an email. I know not its source, but for me, it was a fabulous trip down memory lane. George earned...
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Why Austen’s Works Easily Translate into Modern Adaptations
Jane Austen’s works are often classified as “romances.” The assumption comes from the premise that if the heroine meets a handsome man in Chapter One, he must be the hero. Fitzwilliam Darcy is the...
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Do You Remember? When Sophia Loren and Carlo Ponti Committed Bigamy
In February 1965, an Italian court in Rome declared the 1957 nuptials of Sophia Loren and her producer husband, Carlo Ponti, invalid, saying his Mexican divorce from his first wife, Giuliana Fiastri...
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From Where Does That Phrase Come? A Bit of Slang
Slang, consists of a lexicon of non-standard words and phrases in a given language. Use of these words and phrases is typically associated with the subversion of a standard variety (such as Standard...
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Do You Remember the Yankee’s Farewell to the “Iron Horse”?
For the last few weeks in August, those of us in the States have been bombarded with images of common folks and celebrities pouring buckets of ice water over their heads in the name of fundraiser for...
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Sadie Hawkins’ Day, not a Leap Year Event + a Giveaway
(Image from Sadie Hawkins’ cards at www.postcards.org) When I was a teen girl, I enjoyed the school sponsored Sadie Hawkins’ dances. We didn’t exactly go for the girl asking the boy to the dance (like...
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“Emma” 1995’s Depiction of Social Class
Emma 1995 – Columbia/Miramax feature film (120 minutes); Directed by Douglas McGrath; Screenplay by Douglas McGrath; Produced by Patrick Cassavetti and Steven Haft Cast: Gwyneth Paltrow…………………………….Emma...
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Are You Familiar With These Words and Phrases?
Spillikin ~ The Oxford Living Dictionaries gives us: [treated as singular] A game played with a heap of small rods of wood, bone, or plastic, in which players try to remove one at a time without...
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