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IN THE MID-1960S, San Francisco was still a city of tribal villages. The Castro district and the Noe Valley neighborhood were working-class Irish, though the Irish in the adjacent Mission district were giving way to Latino immigrants. The
David Talbot • Season of the Witch
Charles Eliot Norton,
Natalie Dykstra • Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
Dad compared himself and Lenny with Gerald and Sara Murphy, socialites who entertained the great artists of the Lost Generation on the French Riviera, and on whom Fitzgerald based Nicole and Dick Diver in Tender Is the Night.
Griffin Dunne • The Friday Afternoon Club: A Family Memoir
Irish Catholics were represented by director John Ford, actors James Cagney and Pat O’Brien, and Los Angeles bishop John J. Cantwell. The event was organized by Hollywood leftists Dorothy Parker and Donald Ogden Stewart. Other attendees included screenwriter and author Rupert Hughes, actor Paul Muni, and actress Gloria Stuart.
Chris Yogerst • The Warner Brothers (Screen Classics)
Henry and Clover Adams,
Natalie Dykstra • Chasing Beauty: The Life of Isabella Stewart Gardner
I met Margot Edwards during 1948 in Matcham Skipper's Studio behind the Russell Street police station, and it was only a short time afterwards that I became her lover and a constant visitor to her in a loft in Ivanhoe. Margot was only eighteen years old and one of the most beautiful girls I had ever seen.... See more