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But let’s talk about a new season of posts on this blog. When I began the blog about 16 months ago, I didn’t promise readers a post every week or every two weeks or every month because I wasn’t sure how often I’d be able to come up with something of interest about GertrudeandAlice. It has amazed me how subjects for posts come to mind at all hours of the day and because of the way the Word Press site is set up, I create a draft which I can come back to when I’m ready to flesh out an idea. Some friends have even suggested that the blog is book worthy, a very high compliment, but then your friends are your friends because they make you feel good!<\/p>\n
(For the movie version of the blog a la “Julie and Julia”, let’s have Meryl Streep play Alice B. Toklas, Stanley Tucci can play me and for Gertrude Stein, let’s have an open casting call with actors required to memorize TENDER BUTTONS<\/strong> which will have to be presented with gusto and appropriate gestures!)<\/p>\n "Alice B. who?"<\/p><\/div>\n Currently there are four drafts waiting.\u00a0Here is what you have to look forward to in the next few months, but that’s not to say other drafts might not preempt any of these.<\/p>\n \u2022 “Kukla, Fran and Gertrude Stein” is another trip down memory lane for this aging, Baby Boomer–sorry! This journey was prompted by an article I read about puppetry which highlights a 1930s production based on a piece by Gertrude Stein. I assume GertrudeandAlice pulled many a string in their lives keeping this artist in line or that servant hopping to or that German officer in place during WWII, but this is about a serious production that was hailed by Thornton Wilder:<\/p>\n ‘This play should make you think and should make you laugh…As Miss Stein always says of her work: “Be natural and you will understand it.”‘<\/em><\/p>\n <\/em><\/p>\n Yes, there are 2 Gertrude puppets sitting in the middle<\/p><\/div>\n \u2022 “William Cook,” is a tribute to the American artist who was a good friend of GertrudeandAlice’s (they were even witnesses at his wedding) who among other things taught Gertrude how to drive enabling her and Alice to do their patriotic duty visiting the doughboys during WWI. You can get the full story in a lovely, little book COOK BOOK by Roy R. Behrens.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n \u2022 “Summer Reads” is a post whose title will obviously have to change unless I wait until next June to write it. \u00a0It is a listing of some recent books which feature GertrudeandAlice.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<\/a><\/a><\/a><\/span><\/em><\/p>\n