Ellen

Today is Ellen's birthday, and Fiorella wishes her well. But it's not just Ellen that she celebrates--it's Ellen's family too. Eve and Norman Paule influenced and enlarged Fio's life. They were the ones who had a Time-Life art series she absorbed like a  felt blotter, who took her along with Ellen to live performances of music and drama, who included her in rides to swimming and sewing lessons, who introduced her to Yiddish, who, by the sort of people they were, taught her to respect and honor Judaism.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, ELLEN. THANK YOU.

Mama June Is A Size Four And All Hollywood Marriages Are Happy

Fiorella spent a fair amount of time in her podiatrist's office yesterday, which meant she spent a fair amount of time perusing People Magazine. It's not her publication of choice, but it's usually the only one in doctors' waiting rooms that isn't oriented toward health care or sports.

Actually, Fio grew up reading magazines. She devoured Hollywood fan mags with friend Ellen at her house, and then, at home, read the magazines her mother subscribed to--Saturday Evening Post when it was still in business, Better Homes and Gardens, Ladies Home Journal, Good Housekeeping, and Family Circle. Then, after Fiorella married, she briefly subscribed to House Beautiful and occasionally bought Woman on the newstand.

But now Fiorella doesn't have time for magazines. She has a driveway to edge wth stones, a house to tend, books to write, and a world to save.


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