Renee Patrick
@rpatrickbooks.bsky.social
Author of the Lillian Frost & Edith Head mysteries. As seen on TCM and featured on NPR's summer reading list!
Worn #onthisday in 1967 by Tony Curtis and Omar Sharif when they were named Best Dresed Actor and Best Dressed Foreign Actor by the Costume Designers Guild at the Renaissance Ball in Beverly Hills, CA. Edith Head (with ball chairman Anne Baxter) won the Adrian Award for costume design. #OTD 📷️ LAPL
ICYMI at Cocktails and Crime, after finally reading William Peter Blatty's THE EXORCIST and seeing the new doc on EXORCIST II, the power of Christ compelled me to watch the rest of the series. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-10...
NEW COCKTAILS AND CRIME. I ask what hath William Peter Blatty wrought, reading LEGION, rewatching EXORCIST III, and diving into the other sequels including the secret one. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-10...
NEW NEWSLETTER COMING! Our latest podcast appearance, a new exhibit featuring Hollywood costume designers' work for flight attendants, and more! Subscribe and receive a free essay on the noir fashions of Edith Head! reneepatrickbooks.com
NEW NEWSLETTER COMING! Our latest podcast appearance, a new exhibit featuring Hollywood costume designers' work for flight attendants, and more! Subscribe and receive a free essay on the noir fashions of Edith Head! reneepatrickbooks.com
I also reveal a few secrets about A HELL OF A DRINK, the upcoming horror movie cocktail book Chris Elford and I wrote, in this podcast.
Renee Patrick@rpatrickbooks.bsky.social · 4w agoPODCAST ALERT! The Washington Talking Book & Braille Library has made audiobooks of the first two Lillian Frost/Edith Head mysteries with more in the works. On their podcast we discuss writing as a married couple, Hollywood history, and more. literarynotes.podbean.com/e/44-renee-p...
PODCAST ALERT! The Washington Talking Book & Braille Library has made audiobooks of the first two Lillian Frost/Edith Head mysteries with more in the works. On their podcast we discuss writing as a married couple, Hollywood history, and more. literarynotes.podbean.com/e/44-renee-p...
44 | Renee Patrick | Design for Dying (Lillian Frost & Edith Head series) | Literary Notes
Renee Patrick visits our studio to discuss Design for Dying, the first book in their murder mystery series set in 1930s Hollywood. Library volunteer Kymmberly Myrick chats with them about the origins ...
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Lovely Rachel Syme tribute to Bob Mackie in the New Yorker, focusing on the craftsmanship beneath the frivolity. www.newyorker.com/culture/post...
Bob Mackie, Who Dressed Carol Burnett and Cher Flamboyantly, Excelled at Old Hollywood Craftsmanship
Bob Mackie, who died on Monday, at 87, dressed Carol Burnett, Cher, and Elton John flamboyantly.
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RIP the legendary Bob Mackie, who worked as Edith Head's assistant before blazing a glorious trail all his own. www.nytimes.com/2026/09/14/s...
Bob Mackie, Designer Who Bedazzled Carol Burnett and Cher, Dies at 87 (Gift Article)
His sequined gowns and outrageous costumes threw clouds of glitter at American fashion for over half a century.
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ICYMI at Cocktails and Crime, I go down the rabbit of THE EXORCIST by finally reading the book, watching a documentary about EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC, and then braving the sequel itself. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-10...
Here's a little something from Eddie Muller about Stanwyck's relationship with the fabulous Edith Head. I love this movie! #cinejanes youtu.be/8pTJtYT47eY?...
Eddie Muller's Intro to "The Strange Love of Martha Ivers" (1946) on TCM Noir Alley
YouTube video by Carney Tynes
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NEW COCKTAILS AND CRIME. In which I read William Peter Blatty's THE EXORCIST decades after everyone else, and the new documentary BOORMAN AND THE DEVIL finally gets me to watch EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-10...
The start of one of the great collaborations in movie history. www.vogue.com/article/the-...
The Story Behind Edith Head’s Very First Collaboration With Alfred Hitchcock
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I'm back in NOIR CITY for the first time in a few years, with an article on journalists from the classic noir era who became screenwriters and in some cases directors.
Michael Kronenberg@mwkronenberg.bsky.social · last mo.Here’s my cover for the upcoming issue of NOIR CITY Magazine. It’s our noir in journalism and media issue. This was a fun one to do and I think it fits the issue’s theme. Donate to the Film Noir Foundation and get a subscription to the digital edition: www.filmnoirfoundation.org/noircitymaga...
ICYMI at Cocktails and Crime, a powerful new memoir forces to me confront my history (or lack thereof) with Led Zeppelin and my high school nemesis. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-99...
NEW COCKTAILS AND CRIME. Tom Junod's disquieting new memoir provokes both a musical reckoning and my own trip down memory lane. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-99...
Alfred Hitchcock, born August 13, 1899. In honor of the occasion: my @crimereads.bsky.social survey of the best Hitchcock films NOT directed by Alfred Hitchcock. crimereads.com/a-survey-of-...
A Survey of Hitchcock Films Not Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Maybe we shouldn’t put so much stock in first impressions. The storied costume designer Edith Head initially met Alfred Hitchcock during preproduction of his film Notorious (1946). She had been loa…
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American actress and singer Rhonda Fleming, the "Queen of Technicolor," was born #OnThisDay in 1923. She wore this Edith Head designed green and black check woollen traveling suit as Laura Denbow in Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957). Sold by Prop Store. #film #costume
Producer Joseph E. Levine (September 9, 1905 – July 31, 1987), pictured with Carroll Baker and Edith Head during production of HARLOW (1965).
ICYMI at Cocktails and Crime, how being a regular in a bar and online changed my life for the better, with one concrete example. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-98...
84: Script for Scandal @rpatrickbooks.bsky.social third Lillian Frost/Edith Head mystery is a humdinger where Frost’s love of movies is tested when Paramount green lights a crime drama linked to a bank robbery case tied to her LAPD boyfriend. Great atmosphere and storytelling. #booksky
NEW COCKTAILS AND CRIME. On being a regular in a bar and online, and how the latter led me to the best New York novel I've read in years. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-98...
One of my favorite writers. THE DEVOTION OF SUSPECT X is as close to perfect as a mystery novel gets. I also loved NEWCOMER. I was never disappointed by a Higashino book. RIP. www.nytimes.com/2026/07/28/o...
Keigo Higashino, Best-Selling Japanese Mystery Writer, Dies at 68 (Gift Article)
His works, which included “The Devotion of Suspect X,” were widely translated and adapted for the screen.
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TEQUILA SUNRISE (1988), airing as part of TCM's Summer of Darkness at 10:30 PM PT, is the movie that turned me into a noir fanatic. I wrote about it for Eddie Muller's Noir City magazine. #TCMParty www.filmnoirfoundation.org/noircitymag/...
Angela Lansbury with Edith Head on set of THE COURT JESTER (1955), directed by Norman Panama and Melvin Frank.
ICYMI at Cocktails and Crime, vintage and vintage-style mysteries from around the globe, a summer drink that will use up any basil you have lying around, and a weird digression into the Luc Besson movie THE BIG BLUE. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-97...
NEW COCKTAILS AND CRIME. You want impossible crimes? I got 'em. Plus a drink suitable for the summer heat. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-97...
A number of years ago, we walked into the Zig Zag Café for the first time and it changed my life. And real regulars celebrate their anniversaries.
Edith Head design for giving a lift to a cool, quiet guy on the run. Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd in The Blue Dahlia (1946).
