As you know by now, I really enjoy talking to great old ladies. Here’s a story I wrote long ago. I’m sure Rebecca is no longer with us — but she was great while she was.

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There’s an old lady out in California that has some very interesting things to say.

It’s okay to call Rebecca Lattimer an old lady. She has just written a delightful book called “You’re Not Old Until you’re 90″–and she just had her 93rd birthday.

Rebecca does for aging what the Wright Brothers did for airplanes. She makes us look at things from a very different angle. Read More→

When I retired and left Hollywood I started writing magazine stories about “regular” people, and leaned they were every bit as interesting as television stars.

Here’s the story I wrote about an old charmer I met in Northern California:

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Every morning at 4:30 her car moves through Marysville’s business district — long before other business-people are awake.

The car, which carried the license plate CANDYBX, stops in front of a small shop, and Irene McIntosh slowly steps out, favoring the hip she broke a few years ago. Read More→

I loved working with actors in Hollywood, but I sure didn’t like working for them.

Hollywood stars aren’t normal. In fact, there is no such thing as a normal star. Some are brilliant, wonderful people and others need help in counting to twelve. Some are very nice, and others are related to cobras. But none of them are “normal.”

Working for the average star is like having a mean 6-year-old as your boss. We treat them like gods, and then wonder why they act like gods. Read More→