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Oct.28.2012
As Halloween approaches, I thought I'd take a few minutes to talk about frights. I've been scared a lot in my life, but not necessarily by the monsters, ghouls, ghosts, aliens, and psychopaths in my favorite books, films, and TV shows. No, it's the art form's underlying ideas that I find...
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Aug.20.2012
William Windom was an intelligent award-winning actor with the folksy attributes of a Will Rogers. His performances were quite understated in a way that Spencer Tracy and Paul Scofield crafted in their screen roles.
Windom had a simple movie career with parts in To Kill a...
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Jun.06.2012
The greatest scribe of 20th Century science fiction is dead. Ray Douglas Bradbury was the most prolific author of the genre since Jules Verne and H.G. Wells. However, his influence into the field of speculative fiction was actually Edgar Allan Poe and Edgar Rice Burroughs. Much of...
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Oct.02.2008
Every time I go to the library, I think about Burgess Meredith. Readers of a certain age will remember the Twilight Zone episode Time Enough at Last. The childhood fantasy of being locked in a library for the weekend has never left me. Neither has the post-apocalypse image of a...
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