A couple of weeks ago, I found myself seated in the famous red leatherette “Slash booth” at The Rainbow Bar & Grill in the heart of Hollywood with Daniel Zafran and Greg Gonzalez, the congenial hosts of one of the top-rated podcasts about Los Angeles, L.A. Meekly. The first time I parked it there, in 1983, it was just a booth. The world at large wouldn’t know the name Slash until 1987 when the first Guns N’ Roses album, Appetite for Destruction, was unleashed. (Also, in 1983,

Several years ago, I wrote the definitive Guide to Animal Movies. It’s out of print now, but you can still get it on Kindle. The book covers all kinds of four-footed stars—from ferrets to felines, and everything furry thing in-between. When I released the book, I was especially happy to be able to put the spotlight on cat movies. Dogs and horses usually get the lion’s share when it comes to screen time. I even added a sidebar interview with my mom (Nancy Bacon) because as a y

I noticed that I’ve been acquiring books at a faster rate than I can read them. Some were sent by publicists, some were given as gifts, and some were inherited from friends who downsized, but I must confess that most were bought by me and thrown on the to-be-read stack. I decided to count them, and came up with the alarming number of 50. Even more alarming is the fact I’ve had some books sitting there for the better part of a decade (sorry, Stieg Larsson). Here’s an overview

It's hard to imagine that my first short film premiered 6 years ago... and all that I have created since then! (Thanks for the reminder, Facebook.) I said in my post that I don't feel like I have accomplished all that much. I guess it's all relative, and how one measures "success" - is it the creative expression, accolades and awards, or is it the cold cash? #AnnabelLee #EdgarAllenPoe #ShortFilm #Filmmaker

Famed gossip columnist Nancy Bacon (aka, my mom) published her mesmerizing memoir Legends and Lipstick last month – in it, she shares countless never-before-told and super-scintillating stories about the stars she knew intimately. There’s detailed dishing on Paul Newman, Rod Taylor, Marilyn Monroe, Robert F. Kennedy, Jay Sebring, and Jayne Mansfield to name only a few. Thanks to new TV shows like F. Scott Fitzgerald’s The Last Tycoon and The Feud, there’s been a resurgence of