Fiction Writer, Poet, Playwright, Educator, Memoir Writer and Literary Critic
Key to the City (1950) is a black-and-white film that stars Clark Gable (Steve Fisk) and Loretta Young (Clarissa Standish) as small-town mayors who meet and fall in love while attending a convention of mayors in San Francisco. The director…
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Recently, I was watching the first Die Hard movie (1988) on television. Die Hard is based on the novel Nothing Lasts Forever (1979) by Roderick Thorp. In the action film, East German terrorists led by smooth-talking Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman)…
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Last Sunday, I watched PBS’s The Song of Lunch on Masterpiece Theatre. This drama focuses on a reunion of two former lovers, who meet for lunch in an Italian restaurant fifteen years after their affair has ended. Alan Rickman and…
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