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Shopping in Someone Else’s Intellectual Property, They Can’t Replicate Spirit

The public didn't pick up on the predictable patterns of Truman Capote's malignant narcissism, just as they accept it as innocuous now, the rattlesnake again in the grass with Taylor...

‘[ . . . ] As We Dream by the Fire': Breakfast at Tiffany's in Los Angeles

What emerges from Breakfast at Tiffany’s is Audrey Hepburn. What emerges is very real person in the here and now and what she did that stands out and apart from the movie...

A Sunset Boulevard Christmas

To see what happened in the novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s being plagiarism from prophetic, world-altering art and the transformation of this to the alive, effective dynamism of the movie that still ignites...

Trickster in a Box on the West Coast: Let's Get this Thing Free!

At this moment I’m right outside of fame, right outside the industry, the press, somewhat purposefully so. It’s been a lifetime of intensity of thought. It culminates in this moment...

California and Finding the Very Real in Place

I was at The Grove Farmer’s Market in Los Angeles last Wednesday seated at a covered colorful bistro table in the afternoon amidst all the bustle talking to John Mayer...

How Willa Cather's Breakfast at Tiffany's Began in the Village (1908), Falling in Love with John Mayer in 2010

My heart map of Greenwich Village, 2010"How Willa Cather's Breakfast at Tiffany's Began in the Village (1908), Falling in Love with John Mayer in 2010"A romance on top of a...