Somebody really should stop me! I'm in an unhealthy/too satisfying online shopping spree, mainly Amazon marketplaces and Ebay (as I'm buying a lot I have to go for the cheapest :S) Last month it was about getting Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. stuff and this months is all Larry Olivier's.

I spent 32 dollars + shipping charges to get the LIFE magazine with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh on the cover :S but I just couldn't let it go. I also bought one from 1972 with an article about Larry... This one I'm a bit worried about because of my experiences buying magazines at Ebay -I should learn the lesson but I don't- (last time it was a couple of magazines featuring Jane Eyre 2006 on the cover, and actually that was the only thing worth it! the articles inside were kind of meh!)

That also reminds me that I keep thinking that I preferred when Toby Stephens was a bit more 'obscure British actor'. Don't get me wrong, I love that he is getting the recognition he deserves and all but it has happened to me before that i get tired of hearing/reading too much about that actor (David Tennant anyone??) and I don't that to happen with my beloved Toby because I've loved him and his work since I saw Photographing Fairies and all those old works of him... *sigh*

Anyway, I think I mentioned that I was reading 'A Hell of A War' by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.. This book is in fact the second part of his autobiography but I received it before the first part (The Salad Days), so I started reading it in bad order, yes I use to do that when I'm impatient, and I really was!

The book tells his life during WWII when he served in the Navy and I really am enjoying every bit of it. The first part of the book is a brief recollection of moments that I'm sure I'll find with more detail in the first book but that DFJ decided to included in the second book in case somebody decided to read just that one (clever boy my DFJ).

The fangirl in me squees to no end when I find things like the fact that DFJ was close friend with other actors I love like Laurence Olivier or David Niven, and even Cary Grant. For example he comments how happy he was when David Niven landed a small role in The Prisoner of Zenda, or how Cary Grant and one of his wives, were the ones renting DFJ's house when he moved with his family to his wife's ranch in Virginia. How cool is that! I'd love to read all those details... it's like a window that I would have loved to have to their lives watching how they enjoyed each other companies... They were all beautiful, powerful and talented... and they were friends and spent timt together and all... I love that, I really do.

( one of my favorite parts is this funny story about Doug Jr, Larry O. and other two in a yacht... )

Somebody really should stop me! I'm in an unhealthy/too satisfying online shopping spree, mainly Amazon marketplaces and Ebay (as I'm buying a lot I have to go for the cheapest :S) Last month it was about getting Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. stuff and this months is all Larry Olivier's.

I spent 32 dollars + shipping charges to get the LIFE magazine with Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh on the cover :S but I just couldn't let it go. I also bought one from 1972 with an article about Larry... This one I'm a bit worried about because of my experiences buying magazines at Ebay -I should learn the lesson but I don't- (last time it was a couple of magazines featuring Jane Eyre 2006 on the cover, and actually that was the only thing worth it! the articles inside were kind of meh!)

That also reminds me that I keep thinking that I preferred when Toby Stephens was a bit more 'obscure British actor'. Don't get me wrong, I love that he is getting the recognition he deserves and all but it has happened to me before that i get tired of hearing/reading too much about that actor (David Tennant anyone??) and I don't that to happen with my beloved Toby because I've loved him and his work since I saw Photographing Fairies and all those old works of him... *sigh*

Anyway, I think I mentioned that I was reading 'A Hell of A War' by Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.. This book is in fact the second part of his autobiography but I received it before the first part (The Salad Days), so I started reading it in bad order, yes I use to do that when I'm impatient, and I really was!

The book tells his life during WWII when he served in the Navy and I really am enjoying every bit of it. The first part of the book is a brief recollection of moments that I'm sure I'll find with more detail in the first book but that DFJ decided to included in the second book in case somebody decided to read just that one (clever boy my DFJ).

The fangirl in me squees to no end when I find things like the fact that DFJ was close friend with other actors I love like Laurence Olivier or David Niven, and even Cary Grant. For example he comments how happy he was when David Niven landed a small role in The Prisoner of Zenda, or how Cary Grant and one of his wives, were the ones renting DFJ's house when he moved with his family to his wife's ranch in Virginia. How cool is that! I'd love to read all those details... it's like a window that I would have loved to have to their lives watching how they enjoyed each other companies... They were all beautiful, powerful and talented... and they were friends and spent timt together and all... I love that, I really do.

( one of my favorite parts is this funny story about Doug Jr, Larry O. and other two in a yacht... )