Val Holley

Hollywood biographer, chronicler of Utah history

[Val Holley @PlanetVal]

@OscarPeterson Thank you for that wonderful score to THE SILENT PARTNER. Not to mention the collaboration with Claus Ogerman on MOTIONS AND EMOTIONS.

[Val Holley @PlanetVal]

@trowynt @BBCWorld Confident I speak for many in saying how enjoyable your 5 consecutive evenings of anchoring were. It's rare for @BBCWorld not to schedule a pinch-hitter on Fridays--they were considerate to give us a full @Trowynt week. Y'all come back now, y'hear?

[Val Holley @PlanetVal]

@trowynt @SimplyKoralie @AidenJohnsonDC @genedandrea Always good to see you in your @Artist_E_Kelly dress.

[Val Holley @PlanetVal]

@ThatEricAlper -The Silent Partner (1979) Oscar Peterson
-Bullitt (1968) Lalo Schifrin
-The Magnificent Seven (1960) Elmer Bernstein
-On the Waterfront (1954) Leonard Bernstein
-Hatari! (1962) Henry Mancini

[Val Holley @PlanetVal]

Gorgeous, unseasonably warm NYC afternoon. Inspired to walk to E. 71st Street where @AudreyHepburn filmed BREAKFAST AT @TIFFANYandCO in the warm 1st week of Oct. 1960 (so @SamWasson says in FIFTH AVENUE, 5 A.M.). Also past @MarilynMonroe's E. 61st St. location in THE 7 YEAR ITCH.

[Val Holley @PlanetVal]

This Thursday: learn how Frank J. Cannon revealed himself through materials preserved in archives throughout the United States. https://t.co/xWWsgxgbuo

[Utah State Archives @UtahArchives]

Join us this Thursday for our first of three #UtahArchivesMonth events! Joining us live from 12pm - 1pm is @PlanetVal, who recently won the Utah Historical Society's annual Juanita Brooks Best Book Award for his biography, "Frank J. Cannon: Saint, Senator, Scoundrel".

[Val Holley @PlanetVal]

Happy for this honor. https://t.co/Tl7RIDTP0S

[The University of Utah Press @UofUPress]

The cat is out of the bag! @PlanetVal

[The University of Utah Press @UofUPress]

Listen to Val Holley talk about Frank Cannon at @WellerBookWorks Wednesday at 6:00! Holley knows his stuff! https://t.co/yJRTaq3kYC

[Val Holley @PlanetVal]

Shades of @SissinghurstNT! Pleased to see your Americanization hasn't prevented your penchant for peonies, pansies, & pinks from proliferating! https://t.co/pMtmIYjVcI

[Jane O'Brien @trowynt]

My vetch patch is a purple paradise for pollinators! And a gift to alliteration

[Val Holley @PlanetVal]

Always a pleasure to contemplate @ItsColePorter, but how I wish there were photos showing him as he really was: with Nelson Barclift, Bob Raison, or John Cronin. https://t.co/RPUMA9Scqa

[Greg MacKellan @GeeEssMacky]

Cole mining for his 130th.

[Val Holley @PlanetVal]

Thanks to @FromtheDesk_ for this new interview on FRANK J. CANNON: SAINT, SENATOR, SCOUNDREL.

10 Questions with Val Holley https://t.co/zjjryuKFpF

[Val Holley @PlanetVal]

@PepperGlass I'm old enough to remember Utah's 1977 drought. The Mormon leaders asked their members to fast and pray. Rain did come--after Utah's CATHOLICS held their own fast.

[Val Holley @PlanetVal]

@Trowynt's (Jane O'Brien) @BBCAmerica Memorial Day broadcast outfit must have been inspired by an Ellsworth Kelly painting.

[Val Holley @PlanetVal]

@trowynt It may be all we get today, but I'm seeing a "Music for Bears" segment in @BBCAmerica's future.

[Val Holley @PlanetVal]

@NYHistory Jazz pianist Bill Evans--God on Earth.

[Val Holley @PlanetVal]

What a thrill to find 4 color photos from John Sorensen & Walter Caron in @NYHistory's SAFE HAVENS-Cherry Grove exhibit. @JohnLeland

[Val Holley @PlanetVal]

@fromthedesk_ Frank Quayle Cannon's grave is nearby, in his inlaws' family [Douglas] plot.

[Val Holley @PlanetVal]

One of the most joyful afternoons of my life: grooving to the Eyal Vilner Big Band at Washington Square last Sunday. Someone's phone caught the action (including me at 3-4 seconds in!).
https://t.co/ELRZhzk0fX

[@scottjshapiro.bsky.social @scottjshapiro]

NYC is dying, it’s a ghost town

[Val Holley @PlanetVal]

In the We're-Not-In-Kansas-Anymore Dept: Manhattan's @FolkArtMuseum--lavishingly exhibiting roomfuls of self-taught pornographers' scrawlings--demurely abuts the @MormonTemple. Utah zoning regs would annul that marriage so fast, your head would spin!

[Val Holley @PlanetVal]

@vox00_ How I wish @JudyWoodruff could grasp this.