Marina Orlova: Paradise

I was at my friend’s house at Cannes. It was my first trip, two weeks ago. He has the most amazing house – it’s like a sanctuary. It’s like a healing house, everything is so peaceful and the waterfall and the garden and the pond with koi, and I was walking, it was so peaceful you feel like you’re in paradise. And then I was walking, walking, walking and there was a garden of cactuses and then it opens up and you see this beautiful scenery of the coastline and you see the boats and the marina, and I look, and the house is on the hill, and I’m like “Oh my God” and I started crying because it was so beautiful.


Alison Goodman is a Writer, Casting Director and pop culture junkie based in New York. She has worked for the CW, ABC Family and the WB. A self-proclaimed TV fanatic, there isn’t a Bravo marathon she hasn’t vegged out to, she still mourns the loss of “Friday Night Lights,” and can’t go to sleep on Thursday night if she hasn’t watched “The Vampire Diaries.”

