A few months after renewing my hand-held crush on Julie Newmar, I published my View-Master fantasy in print and online. A few months later, I opened my email account on a rainy morning and discovered a letter with no subject line from an unfamiliar sender. Spam, I thought, but I read it anyway.<\/p>\n
Dear Matt Love:<\/p>\n Thank you for the lovely things you said about me.\u00a0I am producing a book titled \u201cFirst Fantasy.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0I would like you to contribute, if the mood inspires you.\u00a0Although I am discouraging people from writing about me, in your case, you could write about anyone you like.\u00a0 As a matter of fact,\u00a0there should be one or two stories about me in the book, so you do have that license. I love writers and enjoy your column so much.<\/p>\n Julie Newmar<\/em><\/p>\n You haven’t lived until you’ve received an email from Julie Newmar. I wrote back in seconds. She responded.<\/p>\n Dear Matt,<\/p>\n Yes it was the View-Master piece. It is so vivid. The stories that will be in the book are mostly one page, though there are no limits.<\/p>\n Julie Newmar<\/em><\/p>\n I wrote back in seconds. She responded.<\/p>\n Dear Matt,<\/p>\n I found the View-Master piece because of Google Alerts. I look forward to the new piece you have written. I\u2019ve always wanted to visit Portland, originally for the roses. I have a book on roses that I\u2019m working on and a rose named after me. When will you be in Los Angeles? My number is 310-***-***. I\u2019m here most of the summer.<\/p>\n Julie Newmar<\/em><\/p>\n I had Julie Newmar’s phone number! I submitted the essay but never heard of its editorial fate. A recent check of Newmar’s web site, where she writes wonderfully on a whole range of subjects, including #Metoo, revealed the project was apparently shelved. What a blow! <\/p>\n I should have flown to Los Angeles and seen her. I would have brought my View-Master and reels with me. I would have watched them with Julie watching me watch her as Catwoman. <\/p>\n\n A few months after renewing my hand-held crush on Julie Newmar, I published my View-Master fantasy in print and online. A few months later, I opened my email account on a rainy morning and discovered a letter with no subject line from an unfamiliar sender. Spam, I thought, but I read it anyway. Dear Matt […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4942,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-meditations","has-post-title","has-post-date","has-post-category","has-post-tag","has-post-comment","has-post-author",""],"builder_content":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4944"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4945,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4944\/revisions\/4945"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nestuccaspitpress.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}