Lana Turner has collapsed!

Moving and grooving

I heard someone once use the phrase “a lady in a movie,” to describe the feeling of her arms loaded with shopping bags at the mall. This phrase could apply when you're standing on a balcony in a cardigan, both hands gripping a warm cup of tea while you look out to sea, or when you’re late running through the city and bump into an ex lover. In Sex and the City season 2 episode 18, Carrie meets Big outside of his engagement party and says, “Your girl is lovely, Hubble,” brushes his hair back and leaves. Carrie is very much a lady in a movie. Can it be, “a lady in a movie,” when using actual movie quotes? Whatever.

If this is you, you are a lady in a movie

If this is what you are wearing, you are a lady in a movie

At this very moment, my hair is tucked into the turtle neck of my sweater, you could say I’m totally a lady in a movie. I thought about running an anonymous movie review Instagram account called Leggy and Movie, because I walk to the Alamo Drafthouse theatre down the street from my house and well, watch movies there. I thought maybe it’d catch fire… movie reviews under photos of my legs. I actually still think this is a good idea. Forget everything I just said. When you see @leggyandmovie popping off, it isn’t moi. Thanks.

I think about my posts here often. I want to be like a really smart, funny writer. I want to say things about the culture that are meaningful, and maybe even new. I think I’ll write long essays one of these days. I just learned about this poet from the 50s and 60s called Frank O’Hara. O’Hara was known for his, “spur of the moment,” writing style. Meaning he wrote quickly and without much planning (or editing?). That’s what I’m doing here. I wake up early on Friday, write whatever I’m thinking about and am like, “that's done.” I’m a student of the O’Hara method.

Frank O’Hara

I like the poem “Lana Turner has Collapsed!” by O’Hara:

Lana Turner has collapsed!
I was trotting along and suddenly
it started raining and snowing
and you said it was hailing
but hailing hits you on the head
hard so it was really snowing and
raining and I was in such a hurry
to meet you but the traffic
was acting exactly like the sky
and suddenly I see a headline
LANA TURNER HAS COLLAPSED!
there is no snow in Hollywood
there is no rain in California
I have been to lots of parties
and acted perfectly disgraceful
but I never actually collapsed
oh Lana Turner we love you get up

Lana Turner

Anyway, everything is perfect and it is the best time of year! Variety’s Actors on Actors series is out on YouTube, and the Hollywood Report is starting their roundtables.

I’ve got shopping plans.

Au revoir, lovers.