{"id":527,"date":"2014-02-10T21:25:48","date_gmt":"2014-02-11T02:25:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amybloom.com\/?page_id=527"},"modified":"2016-07-04T14:43:04","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T18:43:04","slug":"lucky-us-cast-of-characters","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.amybloom.com\/lucky-us-2\/lucky-us-cast-of-characters\/","title":{"rendered":"Lucky Us: Cast of Characters"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<div class=\"char-block\">\r\n\r\n<span class=\"walk\">Eva Logan<\/span>\r\n<p class=\"walk-desc\">Our little hero, our not particularly brave, not at all fearless, self-doubting, smart, often puzzled and sometime outraged hero. Age 12, when we meet her.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"char-block\">\r\n\r\n<span class=\"walk\">Hazel Logan<\/span>\r\n<p class=\"walk-desc\">Eva\u2019s mother. A good-looking waitress in a small town, who fell in love, and opportunity when a dashing English professor stopped for a cup of coffee at the only restaurant with tablecloths. They settled down together, with baby Eva\u2014on Sundays and Thursdays.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"char-block\">\r\n\r\n<span class=\"walk\">Edgar Acton<\/span>\r\n<p class=\"walk-desc\">That dashing English professor, in town for mysterious purposes, leaving his lovely wife, Charlotte and his 5 year old daughter, Iris, at home, in leafy, lovely Windsor, Ohio, home of Windsor College.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"char-block\">\r\n\r\n<span class=\"walk\">Iris Acton<\/span>\r\n<p class=\"walk-desc\">A teenage girl who never had an awkward phase, Iris is the star of\u00a0 Cuyahoga County, prettier than most, more ambitious than any.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"char-block\">\r\n\r\n<span class=\"walk\">Mrs. Gruber<\/span>\r\n<p class=\"walk-desc\">Hollywood landlady, handyman and survivor of two pogroms. A realist, with optimistic features.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"char-block\">\r\n\r\n<span class=\"walk\">Francisco Diego<\/span>\r\n<p class=\"walk-desc\">Make-up man and confidante for Hollywood\u2019s stars. Also, a big brother, an imaginative liar and a man you can count on.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"char-block\">\r\n\r\n<span class=\"walk\">Beatriz and Incarnaci\u00f3n Diego<\/span>\r\n<p class=\"walk-desc\">Francisco\u2019s younger sisters, co-owners of La Bella Donna, the best\u00a0 salon in East Brooklyn. Believers in attainable beauty and common sense.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"char-block\">\r\n\r\n<span class=\"walk\">The Torellis<\/span>\r\n<p class=\"walk-desc\">Joe, Anna, Mary and Catherine, Joey and Baby Paulie, plus the 26 cousins. Having helped his father sell vegetables from a cart, Joe Torelli is on his way to an empire of grocery stores, from Queens to Great Neck, to midtown Manhattan. Their family is solid, content in a small world and fully aware of their good fortune.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"char-block\">\r\n\r\n<span class=\"walk\">Reenie Heitmann<\/span>\r\n<p class=\"walk-desc\">Sophia Loren, without the glamour, Reenie is a beautiful domestic goddess, longing for children and hoping for passion, although she doesn\u2019t know it.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"char-block\">\r\n\r\n<span class=\"walk\">Gus Heitmann<\/span>\r\n<p class=\"walk-desc\">Another hero. A man\u2019s man, who likes women. When life turns him upside-down and worse, he holds on. (His motto: Finish strong.)<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"char-block\">\r\n\r\n<span class=\"walk\">Danny Lombardo Acton<\/span>\r\n<p class=\"walk-desc\">An orphan, whose real name we never learn. Like most of us, life and love will invent and re-invent him. Age 5, when we meet him.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"char-block\">\r\n\r\n<span class=\"walk\">Clara Williams<\/span>\r\n<p class=\"walk-desc\">Nightclub singer and the love of Edgar Acton\u2019s life. Elegantly sexy like Lena Horne, despite her vitiligo, with a voice that swings, she just misses making it big. A strong presence and no one\u2019s fool.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"char-block\">\r\n\r\n<span class=\"walk\">Ruthie Post<\/span>\r\n<p class=\"walk-desc\">Danny\u2019s best friend and navigator of school and life\u2019s conventions.<\/p>\r\n\r\n<\/div>\r\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":888,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"page-nocomments.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybloom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/527"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybloom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybloom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybloom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybloom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybloom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/527\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.amybloom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/888"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.amybloom.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}