Rachel Profiling

Hello, I'm Rachel.

Writer/editor. New Mexican tumbleweed blown east to skyscraper country.

Right now, I am working on a book about F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sheilah Graham, and Hollywood in the 1930s. It will also contain a lot of drinking, powder blue suits, dances at the Cocoanut Grove, betrayal, gossip columns, crazy ladies, secret Jews, film lot moguls, and Dorothy Parker quips at funerals. If the world is still around then, it should be out from Random House around 2014. So let's hope the Mayans were wrong.

If you want to say hi please do. Or find me in short form, here.

The first season of Thirtysomething comes out on DVD on August 25 after an 18 year hiatus. In a particularly bananas moment of self-assignment after getting an early copy, I decided to watch the whole thing—it was before my time, but I am no stranger to the transformative power of Zwick/Herskovitz programming. I think I’m going batty from all the crying and complaining about buying the wrong type of chevre for a party.

My experiments with ’80s indulgences and chunky cotton sweaters will be officially documented soon. But for now, enjoy a clip of power suits, stressed friends, unironic nerd glasses, colicky babies, and synth interludes.

Posted at 4:07pm.

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