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.

This week I am going to cover the opening of Gypsy on Broadway with Patti Lupone—I am so geekily excited, it’s embarassing (or pride-enducing, if you are my gay bestie from high school who is now a dramaturg and producer of cast recordings. Either way).

Someone told me seeing Patti do this role was like watching stars collide—everything in the right place at the right time. I cannot wait. Not that anyone is prepared to topple the Merman legacy, but…this looks good.

Seriously, Sondheim, props to you. I’m not sure there is a better anthem for lonliness and self-mythologizing and delusional behavior written for the stage.

Still wondering if I’m a nerd now?

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