The Bennington Project: Episode 3 – An Alley Along Melrose

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Cast from the film version of Less Than Zero –  Andrew McCarthy as Clay, Jami Gertz as Blair, and Robert Downey Jr. as Julian.

Episode three of the podcast, Once Upon a Time at Bennington College, is titled An Alley Along Melrose, and it focuses on Bret’s exposure to the seamier side of Hollywood, courtesy of another Buckley schoolmate, Dominic Gross. Dominic is described as a ‘Richard Gere lookalike’ with a surfer edge.

Dominic’s Hollywood is down-market compared to Julie’s. The movie stars in it are movie stars on the slide and not-quite-yet movie stars, and the sex partners of movie stars on the slide and not-quite-yet movie stars. But it’s younger, wilder, and far more titillating… Continue reading →

Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton

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(image via Dalton’s Instagram)

It’s difficult to pinpoint exactly why I was so invested in Raising Hare, Chloe Dalton’s account of sheltering a hare in her garden (and house and life). But maybe it started when I read that a newborn hare, known as a leveret, is ‘...born open-eyed into a world of danger.’ And from that point on, it was a survival story, and how could you not want the leveret to win?! Continue reading →