Porter Wagoner - “Committed to Parkview”
Oh my god! It’s a great day for all Porter fans, because you can now hear “Committed to Parkview” at James’ Hunnicutt’s fantastic Porter page. It picks up where “Rubber Room” leaves off.
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Princess Luciana, cont’d.
Dear reader Sarah had commented that she, too, had tried to track down the elusive PLP. I replied: You too? Well, even the fellas at work have tried to track her down - once these books arrived (I kid you not - I got them ONE CENT on Amazon!) everyone was riveted … the last we found was an interview from the New York Times from about ten years ago. Conversely, one of the beautiful people she quotes at length in the Beauty and Diet books was Talitha Getty and her “health food diet” - which would have been about a year or two before she died of a heroin overdose. -DL
There is more. She had divorced “Prince Pignatelli” (is that the greatest? Prince Pignatelli! Mavis always wanted to be Princess Matchabelli) then married her book’s publisher, Bert Avedon (no relation to Richard) hence the name change. After the NY Times interview (I should just purchase the damn thing), her trail ends. I will repost some of my other myspace choice PLP blogs soon. If you google her, someone was doing a blog “as” her consisted solely of book quotes but it hasn’t been updated in some time. I wrote the author, praising them on their brilliance, but never got a reply. And, oh, I have an extra autographed copy of the Body Book! Meanwhile, here she is in her heyday:
