The Provocative & Challenging World Of Arceri

THE PROVOC & CHALLENGING WORLD OF ARCERI – Streisand – A Letter To Barbra Abridged

By Gene Arceri
Location: New York - San Francisco - London

            Streisand – A Letter To Barbra Abridged       “Do an interview with Barbra Streisand?  I’m not a...

Natalie Wood – A Paradox – Abridged

By Gene Arceri
Location: New York – San Francisco – London

                Tyrone Power invited Rock Hudson, Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner to an intimate bon voyage dinner at...

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The Provocative & Challenging World of Arceri – MacLaine Metamorphosis

By Gene Arceri
Location: New York – San Francisco – London

MacLaine Metamorphosis   Shirley MacLaine’s latest reincarnation will be as Martha Levinson, the Countess of Grantham’s Mum, in the phenomenal television series Downton Abbey.  Stepping...

Royal Splendor — The Splendor Of The Abbey For Millions To Rejoice

By Gene Arceri
Location: New York - San Francisco - London

High in a tower in Manhattan lived an ex-King. I know, because I worked there as a teenager.  It was the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, and the...

Garbo And Me

By Gene Arceri
Location: New York - San Francisco - London

  I remember a rainy April years ago when I met Garbo in New York City. Greta Garbo – the phantom goddess, the woman everyone...

Sing, San Francisco Part Two

By Gene Arceri
Location: New York - San Francisco - London

In my last article I wrote about the famous Jeanette MacDonald song, “San Francisco”, from her movie of the same name. Now! Sing… “I Left...

From Peanuts To Millions

By Gene Arceri
Location: New York - San Francisco - London

When Jay Augustin, the general manager of PBS in San Francisco, offered to drive me to Santa Rosa for my December 10, 1976, interview with...

Rocking Horse

By Gene Arceri
Location: New York - San Francisco - London

The Queen, at Buckingham Palace, was not amused; Lady {an anonymous friend}, of Dorset, England, fainted onto her nearest chaise lounge; the ultimate Computer Consultant...

THE PROVOC & CHALLENGING WORLD OF ARCERI – The Girl Least Likely: Greer Garson

By Gene Arceri
Location: New York – San Francisco – London

            The Girl Least Likely: Greer Garson       Greer Garson wrote to me on February 26, 1987, suggesting...

THE PROVOCATIVE & CHALLENGING WORLD OF ARCERI – Sherlock Holmes’s Secret Abridged

By Gene Arceri
Location: New York – San Francisco – London

            Sherlock Holmes’s Secret Abridged To Peg Egan, Director to the Offices of Jo Lee, this story is dedicated to you...

Lloyd Nolan: A Champion To Remember

By Gene Arceri
Location: New York – San Francisco – London

with Sandra Grabman     Born in San Francisco to Irish-American parents, Lloyd Nolan was one of Hollywood’s most dependable and respected actors. Whether a...

Winds Of Fate

By Gene Arceri
Location: New York - San Francisco - London

Over 50,000 books on the American Civil War have been published.  Yet, one came along that blew them all away, Gone With the Wind.  It...

Hello! I’m Your British Auntie Mame!

By Gene Arceri
Location: New York - San Francisco - London

Would that we were all so lucky as to have a favorite relative who proves that life is a banquet, while overcoming insurmountable obstacles along...

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Brooklyn’s Scarlett

By Gene Arceri
Location: New York - San Francisco - London

Heretics, atheists, agnostics or angels: all guide whatever one believes. There is only one God for us all, whether one be Buddhist, Christian, Hebrew, Muslim,...

Sing, San Francisco Part One

By Gene Arceri
Location: New York - San Francisco - London

Billboard – America’s oldest show business trade paper – gave us the opportunity to observe developments in American entertainment firsthand on a daily basis. The...

First Ladies From Martha To Michelle

By Gene Arceri
Location: New York - San Francisco - London

Our very first “FIRST LADY” was Martha Washington who never lived in the White House.  Martha, a widow, married George Washington in 1759 and kept the...