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Mar.04.2013
Due to the untimely passing of Marvin Hamlisch, Michael Feinstein will assume his 2013  post as Principal Conductor of the Pasadena Symphony and Pops on June 1st. With an unyielding commitment to the Great American Songbook, he has planned wonderful events for Southern...
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Nov.27.2012
I have great enthusiasm as I look for ongoing examples of our nation’s abiding love with Hollywood’s Golden Age. Here’s another great place to visit, nestled in Raleigh. The North Carolina Museum of History unveiled Real to Reel: The Making of Gone with the Wind this past Summer, and...
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Jul.13.2012
The son of Darryl F. Zanuck, who was also an award-winning producer of cinema, is dead. Richard D. Zanuck worked for his father at 20th Century Fox, rising to the ranks as chief  mogul. He also headed Warner Brothers, and later formed his own production company, with an office at Universal....
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Jun.12.2012
Ann Rutherford, who played Vivien Leigh’s youngest sister in Gone with the Wind, and Mickey Rooney’s long-suffering beau in the Andy Hardy series, has died. The Orange County Register radio columnist, Gary Lycan, paid a special tribute to the star in his Introduction of my...
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Apr.04.2012
I wonder how many people caught the two American Masters programs on PBS recently about two southern women, each of whom only wrote one book:  Margaret Mitchell and Harper Lee.  In my locale, they were shown back-to-back for two and a half hours total.  Not only were biographers...
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Mar.31.2012
PBS guarantees a special Monday in store for you! American Masters is planning to air back-to-back documentaries about the astonishing lives of authors Margaret Mitchell and Harper Lee. The biographies of these two extraordinary novelists will offer fabulous television programming...
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Mar.16.2012
Choosing a best sex scene, or even a favorite sex scene, is difficult for me.  First, I would  categorize sex scenes into three, maybe four, main types.   The first type is the sex scene as commonly depicted in romance novels. Often the man takes the woman, willingly or unwillingly,...
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Mar.08.2012
  Jill Limber used to get herself into trouble when she was younger telling stories, however now she gets paid for telling them which just shows you. She has always been an avid reader and into historical novels, falling in love with American history from reading of “Gone with the Wind”. Her...
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Feb.10.2012
Officials at the Road to Tara Museum are reporting a fire that took place within a neighboring facility in Henry County, GA. The blaze was centered in the upper level of a storage unit. Directly below were units housing collectible posters from the 1939 premier of Gone With...
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Jan.02.2012
Photo: Original Swedish book cover, from its Wikipedia page   I suppose you already know the sordid background of the author: how he died climbing up seven floors because his lift wasn't working; because he'd been at least a three to four pack a day smoker for a long time.  You...