Honestly this one bedroom apartment is so stifling

Don't be fooled: it's raining like crazy now

Beverage of the weekend: Dirty Martini

I got most of the fish out before Cobina poured 100 bottles of Beefeater's into our courtyard fountain. She'll spend the day sipping from this font missing her beloved Carole Lombard whose plane crashed sixty eight years ago today.

Still Dead

 Elizabeth Short sure is sixty two years later; careful as you watch this, it is occasionally shocking
There is no better telling of the saga of Elizabeth Short than Donald Wolfe's "The Black Dahlia Files". This is truly one of the best Los Angeles stories ever, with Bugsy Siegel and Norman Chandler front and center in the drama surrounding Elizabeth Short's murder.

Just Watch This

Still Dead

This time it's Peter Finch who in 1977 collapsed in the lobby of the Beverly Hills Hotel (probably dreading the Golden Globes)

Stiller Dead

Fifty-two years later I'm talking about film pioneer Jesse L. Lasky, who could be visited by you today at the Hollywood Forever Mausoleum, in the Sanctuary of Light.

Gone nineteen years today

Whom? Why, the obvious answer of course: Keye Luke Perhaps you know this if you watch the other nine parts let me know how that was.