Author Archives: Amy Crocker

I thought a lot about Giselle this past weekend. Not the supermodel, but the character in Disney’s “Enchanted” and the ballet of that name.

The tide of celebrity overexposure is shifting again, away from the sentiment of “Well, they signed up for it” to “Nobody deserves this treatment.”

It is kind of pointless as a student to fawn over New York Fashion Week. I can look at online slide shows and read live blogs from the runways but I won’t get to see the fabrics up close.

Jessica Bleifer has only worn her UCLA sweatshirt once. It hangs in her closet and she only shows it to close friends and disbelievers.
But on Monday night, the nation will watch the fourth-year psychology student and her sweatshirt on the game show Wheel of Fortune, an episode she taped back in September.

PBS’s “Antiques Roadshow” is one of its more popular shows, and aside from the current Jane Austen series on Masterpiece Theater, the Saturday night British comedies, and maybe one or two in-depth looks into cultural relics, it’s also one of the best.

While browsing through the fiction authors at Barnes & Noble this weekend, I came to the “Smiths.” Next to Dodi Smith, author of “I Capture the Castle,” a book I read solely because I had heard that J.K. Rowling liked it, was a book by Meta Smith.

The day we went for gelato was overcast and sporadically rainy, more appropriate for hot chocolate than chocolate ice cream. But Piccomolo, straight down Westwood Boulevard, with its bright orange wall and light display cases, serves up a little Italian summertime.