Fascinating! I recently edited Nicca Ray's memoir of her mother Betty Utey Love and Cigarettes (due for publication later this year or early next year) who was part of the Sandstone scene and also manager of the nudist club Elysian Fields in Topanga Canyon. Nicca provides a teenager's view of those days. Her father was Nicholas Ray, director of Rebel Without a Cause and other Hollywood classics (her memoir of her father, Ray by Ray, is excellent.)
How does one manage to have an impact so profound? What’s the secret sauce? Is it nothing more than being willing to stand up for what is right? I feel like there’s a lot more to it than that, and am trying to imagine what is the special something that gave her the ability to leave a mark that literally rattled the bars of American culture in such a meaningful way.
Fascinating! I recently edited Nicca Ray's memoir of her mother Betty Utey Love and Cigarettes (due for publication later this year or early next year) who was part of the Sandstone scene and also manager of the nudist club Elysian Fields in Topanga Canyon. Nicca provides a teenager's view of those days. Her father was Nicholas Ray, director of Rebel Without a Cause and other Hollywood classics (her memoir of her father, Ray by Ray, is excellent.)
How does one manage to have an impact so profound? What’s the secret sauce? Is it nothing more than being willing to stand up for what is right? I feel like there’s a lot more to it than that, and am trying to imagine what is the special something that gave her the ability to leave a mark that literally rattled the bars of American culture in such a meaningful way.