Van Johnson has died (this has been a bad week for classic movie stars!). He was 92. Van Johnson was often described as having “affable charm and boyish good looks.” He was especially good in the MGM musicals of the 1940s, though as a dramatic actor he was often underrated. Here’s Van (and June Allyson–a [...]

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I love vintage books. I’m starting to collect vintage pulp books– mostly those that have been made into movies, like these: The Bad Seed, Revolt (or Day of) The Triffids, and The Left Hand of God (that’s Humphrey Bogart on the cover–he was in the film version). I believe I got all of these from [...]

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I’m a bit swamped this week, what with working on my book/chapters and grading and preparing for this Literary Arts Festival at one of the colleges where I teach Creative Writing (i’m giving a talk for their “Writer as Activist” Festival Theme–but more on that another time). In the meantime, here is one of my [...]

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