
“I met Jennifer Jones when I was twenty-six or twenty-seven I traveled everywhere with her. I spent more time with her than anyone, even Norton … It would take four hours to do her hair and makeup. And it was all for Norton: hair, makeup, beautiful dresses. The point was not to go out and show other people. Everything was for Norton. ‘Norton deserves for me to be beautiful.’ And he was paying. I did her hair and makeup every day, an incredible cost. For the cost of a whole year, you could buy a house in the Valley.
And I did it for more than thirty years, every day, sometimes morning and night. And she didn’t take off her makeup at night. She’d leave it on until I arrived. When she went to bed, she was all made up. Do you know why? This was not for Norton, this was for herself. She said it was ‘in case I get sick at night and have to go to the hospital. Somebody’s going to take a picture of me, and I don’t want to be without makeup.’ She did this every night.”
—Tomoyuki “Yuki” Takei, West of Eden: An American Place by Jean Stein



Isokon Dining Chair, 1936


Coming from the Cemetery
oil on canvas, hand carved frame, 11″ x 14″
Courtesy Chassidic Art Institute

“You don’t know very much about girls. The best ones aren’t as good as you think they are and the bad ones aren’t as bad. Not nearly as bad.”

Hollywood Hills, Topanga Canyon, Riviera and Malibu, Los Angeles, Nov.-Dec. 2016



—Grace Kelly

Judith and her Attendant Going to the Assyrian Camp, 1863


oil on canvas

—Watchtime

—Rod Serling, The Twilight Zone, “Eye of the Beholder” (1960)

Dovima in a suit by Pacific, hat by Lily Dache, Vogue, 1950

Hollywood Hills, Topanga Canyon, Riviera and Malibu, Los Angeles, Nov.-Dec. 2016


Ha’azinu, (Hebrew: Listen) Blue and Gold. Acrylic, gold leaf and shell gold on panel, 16×20.


“#2” Oil on canvas, 1975, 60 x 48 inches

Portrait of The Bostoner Rebbe, Levi Yitzchak HaLevi Horowitz, 1921 – 2009. A few months before Karen and I were married, we visited friends in Boston. They introduced us to the Rebbe who was kind enough to grant us a private audience. At the end of our meeting the Rebbe gave us a b’racha, a blessing.


Bugatti, Petersen Automotive Museum, Los Angeles, Nov. 2016



Pinchas Tzvi looks full of “personality”. May G-d bless him, indeed. My great-great Grandfather was Pinchas. My great-grandfather’s marker notes that he, Aphriam Pokrass, is the son of Reb Pinchas, HalLevy.
Sadly, though we know where great-grandfather is (a cemetery in Towanda, PA), no idea on hid father. As far as we know, he lived and died in Zlatopol, Ukraine, and the Jewish cemetery there was pretty effectively desecrated by the Nazis, and probably Ukrainian “neighbors”.
She said it was ‘in case I get sick at night and have to go to the hospital. Somebody’s going to take a picture of me, and I don’t want to be without makeup.’ She did this every night.”
—Tomoyuki “Yuki” Takei, West of Eden: An American Place by Jean Stein
Jennifer Jones didn’t realize that, when you’re lying in a hospital emergency room, seriously ill or injured, you look like death warmed over, no matter how muchmakeup you’re wearing?
I love the pictures of your grandchildren. This week’s is just bursting with joy and delight.
I shouldn’t do this, but it’s too easy:
The Left’s reaction to the coming of Trump;
https://youtu.be/cHWs3c3YNs4
What you have described relative to Jennifer Jones is the real Sunset Boulevard.
The Post’s attack on Gerlernter is interesting. Apparently only the left is allowed to be “Intellectual.” The slur was noted by Steve Hayward at Powerline.
A Facebook friend points me to a Time magazine profile of Gelernter:
“Inside the house, evidence of the mind of Gelernter is everywhere. The towering walls of books–including his own works on computer science, religion, popular culture, history and psychology. His works of art–some abstract, some powerfully figurative, like the life-size evocations of the great kings of Israel inspired by Christian tomb art at the Basilica of St. Denis outside Paris. Musical instruments fill the floor space. Flamboyantly colored birds survey the scene–a purple parrot in a cage near the kitchen and a multihued macaw named Ike that presides over the family room. Gelernter’s conversation runs in torrents from the prophesies of Isaiah to the subtleties of Gothic engineering to the proper design of graphical user interfaces.
The anti-Intellectual.
Did you see the outrageous character assassination the Washington Post tried to do on David Gelernter this week?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/01/18/david-gelernter-fiercely-anti-intellectual-computer-scientist-is-being-eyed-for-trumps-science-adviser/?utm_term=.e7428a7b96a4
Robert,
The nightmare is not over. To these people (who’s very existence is power based on politics) Trump does represent an existential threat. Not that they’ll go to camps, but with Obama they threw the dice for it all and it looks like they’ve lost. They will fight tooth and nail now (recently not very smartly), but their strength (the press, the message) was a brittle veneer and it no longer shields them. If Trump presses on and keeps the support he has among the people then they can’t stop him. They will not disappear, but they may become irrelevant for the next 30yrs.