Metro stations could pass for planet of the apes type bunkers. (Taken with Instagram at Washington DC)
Behold the elegance of my mothers home. Fake cupcakes and silver teapots she never uses. #butdamndoesitloolgood (Taken with Instagram at Gaithersburg, Maryland)
Katharine Hepburn on the MGM lot during the filming of Without Love (1945)
Calvin Klein: Your style, did it come from you? Or was it someone else that influenced you?
KH: No, no one influenced me. I think that I must have been very self-conscious about my appearance, that I wanted to present something that looked as though it had just come out of the woods or something, and everyone thought, ‘I’ve never seen anything like that before.’
I liked to look as if I didn’t give a damn. I think you should pretend you don’t care … but it’s the most outrageous pretense. I said to Garbo once, ‘I bet it takes us longer to look as if we hadn’t made any effort than it does someone else to come in beautifully dressed.’
CK: Were you influenced by any of the men you knew at that time?
KH: No! I never dressed up for any man. If I thought he cared how I looked, I would have thought he was a fool. I really would have.
The men dressed for me, you know. Nobody ever made a pass at me unless I fully expected them to and welcomed the notion.
CK: Good for you.
KH: I’m rather a forbidding character.
-excerpted from Washington Post Magazine interview (March 9th, 1986)
What a woman.
Here’s a link to my latest producing work at WBUR’s Radio Boston. Get to know the gardeners and history behind the Fens in Boston.
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I decided to get back to my old reporting stomping grounds at “You are Here” at WERS. Here’s my final piece on prescription drug use in America.
I don’t consider myself a baker, by any means. But I’d say this rosemary olive oil cake brings together the best flavors and textures from both the baking and cooking worlds. A few minor adjustments the next time I make it, and it will be perfect.
