All You Have To Be Is Beautiful

"Get yourself a pack of gum and come On out Kid," he wrote, enclosing the newspaper ad for aspiring models and showgirls. My gay best friend who skipped town for a better life in L. A. He's the one who sent money for my son's ballet lessons from his paycheck at the I. Magnin department store, where he was shown fitting a movie star for her wedding gown (does anyone remember Margaret O'Brian?) Child Star Gets Married) everything recherche' or something like that. Some people never leave your heart because Gee Whiz, the Beauty he thought I was, never left his. He got his jollies imagining me floating cloudlike down a staircase, arms wide to the world at the Zeigfield Follies, feathered and plumed, a jewel in my navel-- so ahead of its time. Born to captivate Cooper and Gable in Busby Berkerley perfection on some circa 50's Silver Screen: Girl- Power in Perpetuity.