Heartfelt musings of Celebrity Scribe Marsala Rypka.
IF YOU CAN’T STAND UP, STAND OUT and boy do they. These women know who they are and they don’t waste one moment feeling sorry for themselves. They are fully engaged in life. That’s something we can all stand to remember.
Thankfully, first-time author Kathryn Stockett did not give up when her novel “The Help,” was rejected 60 times. When someone finally had the wisdom to recognize its worth, and it was published in 2009, the book sold more than three million copies and spent more than 100 weeks on the New York Times Best Seller […]
Royal Wedding Mania has gripped America and ardent fans are anxious for newsy details about anything and everything that has to do with the historic day when Prince William takes Kate as his Princess Bride this coming Friday April 29, 2011. Jane Seymour, the official British correspondent for Entertainment Tonight, has been happy to oblige […]
Long before the movie An Inconvenient Truth educated the world about global warming, and long before it was cool to be green, Ed Begley Jr. was walking the talk. Back in 1970, before most of us understood that our very survival depends on our protecting and preserving the planet, Ed was recycling his garbage, driving […]
“I use the word ‘other-worldly’ to describe myself, and people who know me well either complain or see it as a compliment that I seem to have one foot here and one foot somewhere else. That’s been true since I was a little girl, partly because starting when I was eight years old my dad […]
On December 11, 2010, the night before what would have been Frank Sinatra’s 95th birthday, I was at the Wynn Hotel in Las Vegas for the premier of SINATRA: Dance With Me, a show conceived, choreographed and directed by the renowned classical, jazz and contemporary dancer and choreographer, Twyla Tharp, who I interviewed in January […]
How many times do we make the mistake of judging a book by its cover? How many times do we make assessments and draw incorrect conclusions about people simply because of the way they look, the way they talk, what they do for a living, yada yada yada? Such is the case with Gilles Marini. […]
When you wake up in the morning you never know what the day will hold. I never expected that I would answer my cell phone while I was driving down the freeway and hear my editor say, “Would you like to interview Anthony Hopkins?” “Of course I would,” I shrieked into the phone. “He’s a […]
Sharing a glass of wine and the smooth, soulful, sultry sounds of jazz with friends and family is one of the … [Read More...]
I had the chance to get “Up Close and Personal with Eva Longoria” and in talking with her it quickly became … [Read More...]
Here at Celebrity Scribe I’m always looking for those nuggets of gold, those pearls of wisdom gleaned from … [Read More...]
I liked Nate Berkus long before I interviewed him for Luxury Las Vegas Magazine, and long before I became … [Read More...]
Thankfully, first-time author Kathryn Stockett did not give up when her novel "The Help," was rejected 60 … [Read More...]
“I fell in love with tennis far too late in my life, but the reason I have everything that I hold dear is … [Read More...]
