WilliamM

Enjoy LA, it's one of my favorite places. I especially enjoy the cities on the Pacific Ocean like Santa Monica and Venice. Even better: Topanga (Canyon) State Park in Malibu. The following is going to make you sick: 20 years ag0 I was able to book a frequent flier round-trip from Dulles Airport in Washington to Sydney, Australia on a Japanese Airline that allowed a 5-day stop in Tokyo (US Air @ 50,000 miles).

Hope you get an answer. I live in Philly, tourists might ask me. :)

far, far in the future, Zsa Zsa and Kim might be still alive.

The brink of death? Zsa Zsa will out live her husband.

I was wondering if this incident would be mentioned. Since I live in Philadelphia, I remember it well. I was sick from work the day Zsa Zsa appeared on all the local talk shows to defend herself. If she was really upset, Zsa Zsa would have invited them back, apologized in person and treated then exceptionally well. Instead, she seemed to enjoy the publicity. From that moment on, I felt very sorry for her daughter.

Jack Paar ("The Tonight Slow") and Merv Griffin often had group guests; IMHO that was Zsa Zsa at her best, getting in just the right witty line. She was not quite as good being interviewed on her own. During Paar's time on TV, she was still well known for the film "Moulin Rouge," a classy and successful movie.

When I thought about starting this thread, I thought nobody would remember Zsa Zsa Gabor!

Yes, the list was created on 14 March 2013, so it is different today. Given the ages of the people listed, the list would have to be updated almost every month. If you click on each name, you can find out who is alive on 10 February 2016. As of today, those alive are, as follows by age: Olivia deHavilland, Kirk Douglas, Zsa Zsa Gabor, Patricia Laffan, Alan Young, Bette White........ (I stopped there because I just remembered my father died on 10 February 1960.)

Am I correct that Francesca was the only Gabor child because none of Zsa Zsa's siblings had children? If so, her husband is the only one left to inherit whatever money remains.

Zsa Zsa Gabor was rushed to the ER Monday ... 2 days after her 99th birthday, TMZ has learned. Gabor was having difficulty breathing ... husband Frederic von Anhalt tells us. Zsa Zsa's doctor came to her home and removed mucus from her throat, but it didn't cure the problem. Zsa Zsa was admitted to an L.A. hospital Monday morning. Docs determined she has a feeding tube-related lung infection. We're told Zsa Zsa's scheduled to undergo surgery to have her breathing tube removed Read more: http://www.tmz.com/2016/02/09/zsa-zsa-gabor-hospital-birthday/#ixzz3ziVmNspZ

The Guggenheim and Neue Gallerie are only a block apart in NYC. I visit those museums more than other in the city. The Neue specializes in 20th century Austrian and German art (and occasionaly Russian). It's a small museum, and has a small permanent collection, which included Klimt's Woman in Gold. The Gallerie also has a wonderful German-Austrian restaurant (also open to the general public). The Guggenheim specializes in Kandinsky but often has exhibits on Russian and Italian 20th century art. The building is something you either love or hate. In both museums, the special exhibits are the main reason to visit.

cany, I call it the Wyeth Museum too. But the name is really Brandywine River Museum of Art. I would guess the museum is at least a two hour drive from Manhattan. Chadds Ford is interesting enough to consider staying over night in a hotel.

Kevin, It depends on what you mean by a short time. The Barnes is a relatively small museum, but almost every room contains several master works of art. I would say two hours-to-three hours at the very least. There is a Starbucks across the street and a cafe in the museum as well as a restaurant so there is chance to take a break and go back for another hour.

Aren't you involved in show business in some way? Just trying to broaden my horizons, as you so kindly suggested, MrMiniver.

I had to remember where "The Perfect Spy" fit in Le Carre's career. A good intro to the author, for sure.

The story can be difficult to follow in the three books too. But, it is so interesting -- well worth the effort. Those three books were a major high point in my fairly long history of reading.

Maybe Hollinghurst loves butterflies too. (I visited Nabakov'a childhood home in St. Petersburg near the Winter Palace -- very nice neighorhood). QTR, if you did not like "A Swimming Pool Library," I would not recommend his other books. Has anyone mentioned John le Carre's The Quest fot Karla books: "Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy" followed by "The Homourable Schoolboy" and "Smiley's People." By now, he's written too many books. But, it is almost impossible to stop once you start "Tinker, Tailor......"

True about one book being like another. I just checked my bookshelf and had forgotten Hollinghurst's "The Stranger's Child" and "The Folding Star." So many gay writers died duting the plague. Although Alan Hollinghurst and Edmund White may not be my very favorite gay writers, I am very glad they are still writing and publishing books.

There are several other gay books that may not have been mentioned- Alan Hollinghurst, The Line of Beauty Charles Nelson, The Boy Who Picket The Bullets Up (Vietnam) Edmund White, The Fairwell Symphony Joseph Hansen, Living Upstairs (not a crime book) Jean Genet, Querelle of Brest James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room

Neither Robert Moses nor Lady Bird Johnson/Bill Moyers were/are fans of his books. Moses was still alive and spoke out. I believe Mrs. Johnson kept her opinion private, as does Bill Moyers presently. Charlie, I agree completely.

Robert Caro on political power: Lyndon Johnson and Robert Moses: I am suggesting Ron Chernow's "Alexander Hamilton" because it has led to significant new interest in one the most important founding father as well an entremely successful show oin Broadway. Warning: Alexander Hamilton's life had so many twists and turns that Chernow's book is fairly long. Robert Caro's book on Robert Moses," "The Power Broker" is one of the best book I've ever read, but it's too long. The same is true of Caro's four volumns of "The Years of Lyndon Johnson." Caro has been mentioned before on this site.

I never made it beyond Swann's Way either until I picked up volumn two and started at around page 100. Somehow that removed the pressure in trying to read a truly great book. But, it seems you have already accomplished much the same thing by reading bits and pieces. For me, the best volumns are three and four. Both are worth reading in full. Once you "get" Proust, it's truly worth the effort.

I have tried Remembrance of Things Past twice. The first time I made a major effort, all the way to Marcel's complete obsession with Albertine. The second time, I got a bit further, before frracturing many ribs in Milan. I have to wait several days for a plane home all the while looking at the unfinished book in my hotel room. I could venture out for meals. Never sure whether to blame Albertine, or the young man whom Proust based her on, for the fractured ribs. I believe the young man died in a plane crash, so never knew that he became famous.

"Buddenbrooks" is the first Mann novel that I read. It's relatively easy to read compared to late Mann. I mostly enjoyed "Doctor Faustus," but it was huge struggle. I found "Joseph and His Brothers" impossible because I know so little about the Bible.

I visited the Nobel Museum in Stockholm just to read the various citations for the Nobel Prizes in Literature, especially Mann's.