Category Archives: Scenes From My Life

Scene from my Gatsby life: “Hank, how do you spell ‘occulist'”?

Posted on October 30, 2025 by Naomi

Mia was pregnant. The Newport shoot wrapped before her baby bump blossomed fully into Fletcher Previn. Then, what Redford once, semi-sarcastically, termed “the big money, above-the-line” personnel, and the British camera crew and one minor Paramount executive made their various … Continue reading →

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A scene from my life, with cameo appearance by Robert Redford

Posted on October 11, 2025 by Naomi

After the shoot at Marble House, the production took up residence up the road in Gatsby’s mansion Rosecliff, Stanford White’s petite reminiscence of Versailles’s Grand Trianon. Has anybody ever researched whether the inevitable crises which speckle a large-scale production correlate … Continue reading →

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Had an unpleasant dream last night in which Xmen appeared…

Posted on September 17, 2025 by Naomi

…to tenderize my innards. Fucking irritating; they were not the two or three most significant Xmen in my life. Minor romances,  peripheries, although memorable for one thing or another. It was hurtful, that dream, hurtful again, and the dream circumstances … Continue reading →

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