Amusing Story
Los Angeles:
“It’s mostly full of nonsense and delusion and egomania. They think they’ll be young and beautiful forever, even though most of them aren’t even young and beautiful now.”
–Christopher Hitchens
In 1986 I skipped off the airplane into the Burbank airport lugging a duffel full of ripped spandex clothing, a giant can of Aqua Net hairspray, Wayfarer sunglasses, and a copy of A Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood. I had one pair of shoes, the ones I was wearing, white pumps with the heels worn down to metal and when I walked down the sidewalk, little sparks would fly.
At “the mansion,” a black-and-white butler gave me a quick introduction to the place and its lingo. He took me to “the stable” where “bunnies” stayed when they were in town– a low-slung structure set apart from the main house and furnished with stiff, clunky furniture. The walls felt…
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