Remembering Gunter Sachs, Brigitte Bardot and St. Tropez
June, 28, 2011 2:19 pm | Comments On #Brigitte Bardot, Gunter Sachs, Movies, Robert BentonBillionaire, Opel heir, philanthropist, documentary filmmaker and renowned art collector Gunter Sachs shot himself in the head last month in his home in the exclusive Swiss Alpine restort Gstaad.
He was the third husband of Brigitte Bardot, whom he married July 14, 1966, in an eight minute ceremony in Las Vegas.
The day after they met, he flew his helicopter over her villa in St. Tropez and dropped a hundred red roses.
"It was love at first sight," he said. "I met her in a restaurant and when we spoke, it was as though lightning had struck. I knew the minute I saw her that I was going to marry her."
Playboy Sachs was a veteran of the go-go 1960s who helped make the French Riviera resort of St. Tropez a playground for rich and beautiful celebrities such as Bardot, who is said to be devastated....
Read MoreCongressman Weiner Is a Sex Addict -- I Know, Because I Am One
June, 15, 2011 11:47 am | Comments On #Anthony Wiener, MediaAnthony Weiner obviously is suffering from a form of sexual addiction. A disease, not unlike alcoholism, compulsive gambling or eating disorders such as bulimia, anorexia. We don’t laugh at cancer patients. Why should we laugh at someone who is suffering from the disease of sexual addiction?
How do I know Congressman Weiner is a sex addict? Because I am one. Like Weiner, exhibitionism was my problem. He needs therapy, which he is seeking. Labeling his disease is part of his problem. He must accept that he is a sex addict and declare that he is one himself. Self-acceptance is one of the first steps of...
Read MoreThe Truth about Blake Edwards and Peter Sellers
June, 14, 2011 5:51 pm | Comments On #Blake Edwards, Carole Mallory, hollyblog, MoviesRecently while watching "The Return of the Pink Panther," I recalled the good times I spent with Peter Sellers.
When Blake Edwards died, I remembered the awkward relationship he had with Peter and that it was fraught with angst.
Despite what appeared to be successful team work, Peter and Blake fought over many things.
Peter did not want to keep rehashing the Pink Panther series and felt that filming sequels was a mistake and damaging to his career. Also, Blake Edwards had wanted Peter to have a face lift.
Because of Peter's bad heart, he was afraid of any operation, but in "Being There," Peter had lost his double chins and possibly had taken Blake's advice.
In my recent memoir in progress, I recall meeting Peter at a party in the Hollywood Hills. We were introduced to each other...
Read MoreArnold Schwarzenegger's Housekeeper Crazy? He Made Her So!
June, 01, 2011 11:35 am | Comments On #Arnold Schwarzenegger, Harvey Levin, Media, Mildred Patty Baena, tmzTMZ’s Harvey Levin reported with a sly smile that Arnold Schwarzenegger’s housekeeper, Mildred Patty Baena, was wearing Maria Shriver’s clothing during their affair. Baena’s size is perhaps four times larger than Shriver’s -- which makes this an impossibility. Maybe he’s talking about Shriver’s accessories rather than her clothing, but still it is taking the focus off predator Schwarzenegger’s abhorrent and crude behavior.
Baena is from Guatemala. Some years ago I lived in Guatemala while shooting a film in Antigua, its major city. The people were the most charming, compliant people I have ever met and largely Indians. You could call them naïve.
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Read MoreArnold Schwarzenegger, a PR Machine Out of Spin
May, 18, 2011 12:42 pm | Comments On #Arnold Schwarzenegger, Barbara Outland Baker, Bobby Zarem, groper, housekeepergate, Media, spinIn the early seventies, I was invited to dinner to meet Arnold Schwarzenegger by Bobby Zarem, N.Y.'s powerful publicist. We met at Manhattan's Elaine's Restaurant.
Schwarzenegger was polite, not at all flirtatious and a gentleman as he looked around the restaurant and took in the powerbrokers one at a time as I did. Zarem was prepping Schwarzenegger's assault on America and was instrumental in Schwarzenegger's success. But it was Schwarzenegger who had the vision to hire a publicist to navigate him to superstardom.
In an interview with Fortune magazine in 2004, Schwarzenegger told how he suffered what "would now be called child abuse" from his father.
"My hair was pulled. I was hit with belts. So was the kid next door. It was just the way it was. Many of the children I've seen were broken by their parents,...
Read MoreDueling Cary Grants
May, 04, 2011 6:01 pm | Comments On #Cary Grant, MoviesCary Grant, born Archibald Alexander Leach, frequently crossed paths with my ex-husband, artist Ron Mallory, and me during the early '70s. "He was patient and debonair." Ron said. "There was no difference between his screen persona or his persona in real life."
Grant had visited Ron's art gallery Esther Robles in Beverly Hills on La Cienega when Ron had a show of his mercury sculptures. Afterwards we all had lunch at a small restaurant on Melrose and met again at a dinner party given by Ann Baxter, a collector of Ron's, in her Westwood home.
But my clearest recollection of Cary Grant was from a cocktail party thrown by Faberge during my modeling years when Grant was on Faberge's board of directors and I was its Tigress girl.
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Read MoreRobin Williams Debuts on Broadway and Is Happy at Last
April, 29, 2011 4:57 pm | Comments On #Robin Williams, TelevisionOn the CBS Sunday Morning telecast I watched Robin Williams say how happy he was. And he looked happy. He is making his Broadway debut in a new play, "The Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo." Furthermore he has been blessed with a new bill of health after having had an aortic valve in his heart replaced.
"It's a cow's valve," he said, with a smile, therefore, he doesn't like to eat meat so as not to offend his valve.
At 59, Robin looked serene and not at all reminiscent of the Robin Williams who was a student in my class in comedy improvisation with Harvey Lembeck in the late '70s. The Harvey Lembeck Comedy Workshop was an esteemed class that had been led by Lembeck, who was best known for playing Capt. Rocco Barbella in "The Phil Silvers Show" (AKA Sgt. Bilko).
About studying with Harvey, Robin has said, "I...
Read MoreRemembering That Championship Season with Jason Miller
April, 21, 2011 11:32 am | Comments On #Broadway, Movies, That Championship Season
While watching "The View," I saw Chris Noth, who said he was starring in "That Championship Season" on Broadway. I remember when Jason Miller, its playwright, starred in my life. In the mid-'70s, we dated for quite some time and had a passionate love affair.
Writers have always appealed to me and Jason was an oxymoron in Hollywood -- a literate actor who was fun to be with. We laughed and created havoc. He had a home in Malibu on the beach. Oh, not in the chic part but up aways towards Trancas. He drank like I did. Of course, we got into Irish rows, but in the end made up, and that was the best part.
If you have the opportunity to see his wonderful play, "That Championship Season,"...
Read MoreDonald Trump, You're Fired -- for a Bad Publicity Stunt
April, 15, 2011 7:12 am | Comments On #donald trump, Media, president, publicity stunt, you're firedDonald Trump, you're fired for falsely claiming you will run for President when you are merely trying to get publicity for your show, "Celebrity Apprentice." Where is your self-esteem? "Celebrity Apprentice" does not need you to hype it. Glaring self-promotion of this stature is cheap and demeaning. You would fire a contestant on your show for doing such a thing -- aligning yourself with the "birthers" just to keep your name in the limelight.
Your show is great. I wait each Sunday in anticipation of seeing who will stay and who will go and what you have to say in the boardroom. Your words and thoughts and raison d'etre for firing someone are truly close to spellbinding, but your need to keep your name in the papers is nauseating. Infantile. Grow up and smell the sweet aroma of success you have generated from your TV show.
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Read MoreHollyblog: Dudley Moore, the One and Only Arthur
April, 07, 2011 4:17 pm | Comments On #Arthur, Dudley Moore, MoviesSir Dudley Moore did two degrees -- one in academics of music and one in composition. “I was an organ scholar. That was my official title. Then I became an extended organ scholar,” Dudley said laughing during one of my interviews. Though only 5’2” inches tall, he was a ladies’ man and nicknamed by the press “The Sex Thimble”.
At 18, Dudley won a scholarship to the prestigious Magdalen College at Oxford University. “Then I met Peter Cook and we formed Beyond the Fringe which was really the start of things for me.” Peter Cook was from aristocracy while Dudley Moore was from the working class.
In the mid-'70s their comedy team performed in the Tony Award-winning sequel to "Beyond the Fringe" retitled “Good Evening “ on Broadway. One night while Peter and Dudley were guest hosts at "...
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Carole Mallory is an actress, journalist, professor, film critic. Her film credits include “Stepford Wives” and “Looking for Mr. Goodbar.” As a supermodel she graced the covers of Cosmopolitan, New York, Newsweek. Her new novel, "Flash," hit #22 on Kindle's bestseller list of erotica in its first day of release. She also has written a memoir of her time with Norman Mailer, “Loving Mailer.” After the writer's death, she sold her archive of his papers to Harvard. Her journalistic pieces on Vonnegut, Jong, Vidal, Baryshinikov, Heller have been published in Parade, Esquire, Playboy, Los Angeles Magazine, the Huffington Post. Her review of Charles Shields' biography of Kurt Vonnegut, "And So It Goes," was published in the Sunday Philadelphia Inquirer. She is teaching creative writing at Temple University and Rosemont College and blogs at malloryhollywoodeast@blogspot.com.
