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!
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Starting the month with an introduction. Hi! I'm the author of the Lillian Frost and Edith Head mysteries, in which the legendary costume designer solves crimes in Golden Age Hollywood.
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Ellen Drew in a publicity still for The Mad Doctor (1941)
November 30, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Ellen Drew in a publicity still for The Mad Doctor (1941)
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Tonight on TCM starting at 8PM E/5PM P, @eddiemuller.bsky.social hosts a night of neo-noir. The classic POINT BLANK (1967), the charming THE LATE SHOW (1977), and the still-batshit-insane PERFORMANCE (1970). #TCMParty
November 20, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Tonight on TCM starting at 8PM E/5PM P, @eddiemuller.bsky.social hosts a night of neo-noir. The classic POINT BLANK (1967), the charming THE LATE SHOW (1977), and the still-batshit-insane PERFORMANCE (1970). #TCMParty
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When Edith Head designed this sequinned marvel for Ginger Rogers in 1944, it was the most costly film costume ever made. Worn in the film Lady in the Dark it is a lovely aperitif to my Hollywood Costume lecture with Falmouth Uni Costume Design 2nd years tomorrow #V&A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
November 19, 2025 at 10:22 PM
When Edith Head designed this sequinned marvel for Ginger Rogers in 1944, it was the most costly film costume ever made. Worn in the film Lady in the Dark it is a lovely aperitif to my Hollywood Costume lecture with Falmouth Uni Costume Design 2nd years tomorrow #V&A #FashionHistory 🗃️🪡
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ICYMI at Cocktails & Crime: how reading aloud fits into our marriage, why I won't be doing that for a while, and a quiz show movie with a quiz show host. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-85...
November 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
ICYMI at Cocktails & Crime: how reading aloud fits into our marriage, why I won't be doing that for a while, and a quiz show movie with a quiz show host. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-85...
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NEW COCKTAILS & CRIME. A survey of books I've read aloud this year now that circumstances have forced me to stop, plus watching QUIZ SHOW with Ken Jennings. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-85...
November 14, 2025 at 5:30 PM
NEW COCKTAILS & CRIME. A survey of books I've read aloud this year now that circumstances have forced me to stop, plus watching QUIZ SHOW with Ken Jennings. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-85...
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Edith Head and Her Miniature Sewing Machine Collection — Robert Cumming, 1977
November 13, 2025 at 1:27 AM
Edith Head and Her Miniature Sewing Machine Collection — Robert Cumming, 1977
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Fantastic new @tcmtv.bsky.social video of @eddiemuller.bsky.social and @danadelany.bsky.social considering the career of Barbara Stanwyck through her costumes, including several designed by Edith Head. Thanks to the archivists preserving this wardrobe artistry! www.youtube.com/watch?v=luKN...
Looking Back at Barbara Stanwyck’s Career (Clip) | The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of | TCM
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November 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Fantastic new @tcmtv.bsky.social video of @eddiemuller.bsky.social and @danadelany.bsky.social considering the career of Barbara Stanwyck through her costumes, including several designed by Edith Head. Thanks to the archivists preserving this wardrobe artistry! www.youtube.com/watch?v=luKN...
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It was incredibly moving to walk among the Warner’s Archives. You wouldn’t believe the riches! Thank you @tcmtv.bsky.social and @eddiemuller.bsky.social for this rare treat. I’ll talk Barbara Stanwyck any day.
Looking Back at Barbara Stanwyck’s Career (Clip) | The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of | TCM
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November 9, 2025 at 9:38 PM
It was incredibly moving to walk among the Warner’s Archives. You wouldn’t believe the riches! Thank you @tcmtv.bsky.social and @eddiemuller.bsky.social for this rare treat. I’ll talk Barbara Stanwyck any day.
Fantastic new @tcmtv.bsky.social video of @eddiemuller.bsky.social and @danadelany.bsky.social considering the career of Barbara Stanwyck through her costumes, including several designed by Edith Head. Thanks to the archivists preserving this wardrobe artistry! www.youtube.com/watch?v=luKN...
Looking Back at Barbara Stanwyck’s Career (Clip) | The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of | TCM
YouTube video by Turner Classic Movies
www.youtube.com
November 9, 2025 at 6:07 PM
Fantastic new @tcmtv.bsky.social video of @eddiemuller.bsky.social and @danadelany.bsky.social considering the career of Barbara Stanwyck through her costumes, including several designed by Edith Head. Thanks to the archivists preserving this wardrobe artistry! www.youtube.com/watch?v=luKN...
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Maria Riva, an actress and author who was the only child of Marlene Dietrich, whose bombshell biography of her mother explored the terrible cost of her fame, died on Wednesday. She was 100. nyti.ms/4qGku18
November 2, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Maria Riva, an actress and author who was the only child of Marlene Dietrich, whose bombshell biography of her mother explored the terrible cost of her fame, died on Wednesday. She was 100. nyti.ms/4qGku18
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ICYMI at Cocktails & Crime, an Elmore Leonard bio leads me back to some of his early stuff, with a surprising amount of material about Fresca. Plus, drinking around Chicago. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-84...
October 31, 2025 at 5:11 PM
ICYMI at Cocktails & Crime, an Elmore Leonard bio leads me back to some of his early stuff, with a surprising amount of material about Fresca. Plus, drinking around Chicago. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-84...
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Kim Novak for Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock in a dress by Edith Head (1958)
October 30, 2025 at 1:30 PM
Kim Novak for Vertigo by Alfred Hitchcock in a dress by Edith Head (1958)
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NEW COCKTAILS & CRIME. A biography of Elmore Leonard sends me back to early work by Dutch, and to my complicated history with Fresca. Also, I drink Midwestern style. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-84...
October 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
NEW COCKTAILS & CRIME. A biography of Elmore Leonard sends me back to early work by Dutch, and to my complicated history with Fresca. Also, I drink Midwestern style. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-84...
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Most of these cocktails will be in A HELL OF A DRINK, my upcoming book with Chris Elford, and you can get them at Navy Strength through this weekend.
October 30, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Most of these cocktails will be in A HELL OF A DRINK, my upcoming book with Chris Elford, and you can get them at Navy Strength through this weekend.
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Took the whole month, but I drank my way through the entire Nightmare on Wall Street menu at @navystrengthseattle. Pictured: the Roman Ritual, inspired by THE OMEN, and the Dream Warrior, based obviously on NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3.
October 30, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Took the whole month, but I drank my way through the entire Nightmare on Wall Street menu at @navystrengthseattle. Pictured: the Roman Ritual, inspired by THE OMEN, and the Dream Warrior, based obviously on NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET 3.
BORN ON THIS DATE. Edith Head, born October 28, 1897. Seen here in a photo from 1937, the year the first Lillian Frost & Edith Head mystery DESIGN FOR DYING (2016) is set.
October 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
BORN ON THIS DATE. Edith Head, born October 28, 1897. Seen here in a photo from 1937, the year the first Lillian Frost & Edith Head mystery DESIGN FOR DYING (2016) is set.
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BLUE MOON is a captivating, small miracle of a movie. It's even more astonishing to watch Ethan Hawke's revelatory turn as Lorenz Hart while in the midst of his polar-opposite performance in FX's THE LOWDOWN.
October 26, 2025 at 6:49 PM
BLUE MOON is a captivating, small miracle of a movie. It's even more astonishing to watch Ethan Hawke's revelatory turn as Lorenz Hart while in the midst of his polar-opposite performance in FX's THE LOWDOWN.
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ICYMI at Cocktails & Crime: everything you'd want to know about the new horror movie cocktail book I'm writing with Chris Elford, plus why you should watch RELAY with Riz Ahmed and more. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-83...
October 16, 2025 at 4:55 PM
ICYMI at Cocktails & Crime: everything you'd want to know about the new horror movie cocktail book I'm writing with Chris Elford, plus why you should watch RELAY with Riz Ahmed and more. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-83...
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NEW COCKTAILS & CRIME! The full story on the horror-movie-inspired cocktail book I'm writing with world-class bartender Chris Elford, plus the best movie thriller of the year so far and more. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-83...
October 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
NEW COCKTAILS & CRIME! The full story on the horror-movie-inspired cocktail book I'm writing with world-class bartender Chris Elford, plus the best movie thriller of the year so far and more. vincekeenan.substack.com/p/c-and-c-83...
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The Room 237, Chris Elford's cocktail inspired by THE SHINING. Now at Navy Strength Seattle and soon to be in our book A HELL OF A DRINK.
October 12, 2025 at 1:36 AM
The Room 237, Chris Elford's cocktail inspired by THE SHINING. Now at Navy Strength Seattle and soon to be in our book A HELL OF A DRINK.
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Me and @vpkeenan.bsky.social enjoying some horror movie inspired cocktails at Navy Strength. His is "Cleaners of the Rotten" inspired by When Evil Lurks and mine is a non-alcoholic "Samara's Cup" based on the American remake of The Ring. Recipe book coming soon, so stay tuned...
October 12, 2025 at 4:41 AM
Me and @vpkeenan.bsky.social enjoying some horror movie inspired cocktails at Navy Strength. His is "Cleaners of the Rotten" inspired by When Evil Lurks and mine is a non-alcoholic "Samara's Cup" based on the American remake of The Ring. Recipe book coming soon, so stay tuned...
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SOME PERSONAL NEWS! Cannot wait to get A HELL OF A DRINK out there in 2027. Chris Elford is a dear friend and a genius bartender. His horror movie inspired cocktails are fantastic. Every Sasquatch book is gorgeous. Halloween will never be the same again!
October 9, 2025 at 9:00 PM
SOME PERSONAL NEWS! Cannot wait to get A HELL OF A DRINK out there in 2027. Chris Elford is a dear friend and a genius bartender. His horror movie inspired cocktails are fantastic. Every Sasquatch book is gorgeous. Halloween will never be the same again!
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SIFF and Seattle Central have mutually decided to end our current lease at the Egyptian. We are so grateful to Seattle Central for their partnership over the years, and to all who have come to a film or event at SIFF Cinema Egyptian. Read more at siff.info/siffegynews-bsky.
October 9, 2025 at 5:01 PM
SIFF and Seattle Central have mutually decided to end our current lease at the Egyptian. We are so grateful to Seattle Central for their partnership over the years, and to all who have come to a film or event at SIFF Cinema Egyptian. Read more at siff.info/siffegynews-bsky.