My Way of Life

Have you seen my ads?, originally uploaded by Joan Jr..
My goodness, I haven’t Blogged since Wednesday! Honestly, it’s not a case of laziness. For YOU, dear readers shall reap the rewards of my toils in the form of Caged Dames- (Insert Tagline Here). I’ve been working on songs for the show. I’m working with an [...]

My Way of Life-Wanna play?

Night of 100 Stars (1985)-

Okay, it’s time to play DEAD or ALIVE! As the cavalcade of STARS marches out you yell out if they’re dead and do a shot, or eat chocolate. If you yell dead and they’re not dead you have to click on this link. You also have to click HERE if you [...]

My Way of Life- LA Clown

What happens to washed-up LA bimbo clowns, originally uploaded by Joan Jr..
Would you want this entertaining your children? Actually, this is the perfect ‘Caption this picture’ contest. I’ll start-
It soon became apparent that even make-up couldn’t camouflage Ms. Lohan’s hard living.

My Way of Life

Castro Theater Marquee, originally uploaded by Joan Jr..
The people you see underneath the marquee are the members of the Joan Crawford Strange Cargo internet ‘discussion’ group. I originally joined the group back in 2004 when we did How Whatever Happened to Baby Jane Happened. I joined all of the Joan and Bette internet chat groups [...]

My Way of Life- Veda, I’m seeing you for the first time…

Hollywood legend Ann ‘Veda’ Blyth, originally uploaded by Joan Jr..
Let’s get this over with right now. Ann Blyth sleeps in formaldahyde. She must drink the blood of virgins because she looked 11 times better then many of the woman (and their weren’t that many) at the Castro Theater half her age and that my dear [...]

My Way of Life

Yes, I’m back, baby. Back in the city that has air conditioning. I’m running on about 4 collective hours of sleep as I missed my 4pm flight and had to take a red eye home so I’m not in the Bloggiest of moods. San Francisco was fabulous, Mary. Actually, I didn’t hear one single Mary [...]

My Way of Life- Caged Dames

Caged- Slapping Eleanor, originally uploaded by Joan Jr..
I’ve got a head full of bumblebees and they all have some sort of task related to Caged Dames, our new show opening October 18 at the Bailiwick Studio space. Myself, Scott Bradley, the director and Ed Jones my co-producer are doing what it takes for a small [...]

My Way of Life- My Cheap and Horrible pilgrimage

Joan on Display, photographed by Darwin Bell.
So it’s official. I’m heading to San Francisco this Thursday to see Mildred Pierce’s scheming, conniving ‘cheap and horrible’ daughter, Veda! There’s going to be a screening of Mildred Pierce at the Castro Theater with a special appearance by Ann Blyth herself. I’m also told that Bert, Mildred’s deadbeat [...]

Kelly Likes Shoes Handbagger Lon Ellenberger told …

Kelly Likes Shoes

Handbagger Lon Ellenberger told me about this last night. It’s better then his description. I guess this is all over the place. I’m so out of the loop…

My Way of Life- Legs

Stupid restless legs! I went to sleep at 1am, woke up at 3:3oam, and was up until 7:30am! Oy vey! I was Googling RLS and the stuff I take for it is also used for Parkinson’s Disease. Chris thinks it’s funny.