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Jun.09.2012 Hedy and Ray and May Company revisited I still recall an evening of Ray Bradbury coming up the escalator of May Company Wilshire, Los Angeles shortly after Hedy Lamarr had gone down the escalator of May Company, oh, many years ago. Hedy, on those summer evenings, after perhaps doing a little shoplifting, sometimes ventured East on...	Jan.19.2012 Who was born & died on this date in Hollywood history? On...
Dec.26.2011 Hedy's Folly Now Available Hello, fellow Red Room authors and readers. I’m still a novice blogger, but I’d like to announce the publication of my new book, Hedy’s Folly, about the life and inventions of Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr. The New York Times Sunday Book Review gave it the cover this month with a review...	Jun.19.2009 A Curmudgeon Still Ray Bradbury, according to the NY Times (see story address below), is, at age 90, trying to come to the rescue of the Ventura County (California) Public Library. I'm glad someone of his renown has taken up the cause of libraries. Bradbury engaged in a discussion and then screening of ``The...
Feb.28.2008 Ray Bradbury, Hedy Lamarr, Charles Rome Smith, May Company and summer nights Every several nights for a summer and early fall in the 1960s, Ray Bradbury would take the escalator up to the third floor of May Company's Wilshire Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue store in Los Angeles. Bradbury's dark novel ``Fahrenheit 451'' was being made into a film and he was famous for ``The...