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DON’T STOP – Alan Light
I am not an ardent Fleetwood Mac fanatic. I have perhaps four of their albums, purchased between the mid-1970’s and mid-80’s and of course I listened to them on the radio back in those pre-internet days. And while they are someone I listened to, they definitely took a backseat to bands like the Beatles, the Continue reading
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STEPHEN SONDHEIM’S SWEENEY TODD: BEHIND THE BLOODY MUSICAL MASTERPIECE – Rick Pender
Back in 1980, as I was finishing my freshman year of college, I changed my college major to Theatre Arts. I note this because the biggest topic of discussion among my peers at this time was the very unusual, dark musical that had very recently opened on Broadway, called Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Continue reading
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THE FANTASTIC ART OF ROY G. KRENKEL – Craig Yoe
I am the person for whom this book is intended. I have been a fan of Roy Krenkel’s art work since the 1970’s. As a high school student, I thought I was destined for a career in art and my preferred medium was pen and ink and while I loved Frank Frazetta’s work, it was Continue reading
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THE MAN THAT GOT AWAY – Walter Rimler
Harold Arlen is not a household name – not in the average home, anyway. Yet Harold Arlen was the composer to some songs that are still well known nearly 90 years after they were first written. Not sure who he is yet? Have you ever heard or sung the song “Stormy Weather”? Maybe, maybe not? Continue reading
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BRIDGERTON: THE DUKE AND I – Julia Quinn
It took me awhile to decide to watch the Bridgerton series on Netflix. I was aware of the interest but I didn’t think I would be interested in a romance series, but one night, while looking for a new show to watch, my wife and I decided to check out Bridgerton … and we enjoyed it. And Continue reading
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STAR TREK: DISCOVERING THE TV SERIES – Tom Salinsky
STAR TREK WEEK Why? Why do we need this? Aside from my distaste for a non-fan to act like a deep fan for the purposes of a book, my other ‘problem’ is that this offers nothing new. ‘This’ episode is good. ‘This’ episode is bad. Yeah, yeah, some of this is pretty commonly held thought, Continue reading
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BEATLES AND BEACONS – Fran Raya
I recognize that I am a sucker for any book either about the Beatles or about someone’s connection or relationship to (or love of) the Beatles. This doesn’t always serve me well. Beatles and Beacons is a coming of age story for Becca Beacon – a British girl going into her teens just as the Continue reading
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SHAKESPEARE’S EAR – Tim Rayborn
I started to read this book on multiple occasions but would put it away barely getting past the Introduction each time. The problem? I really didn’t care for author Tim Rayborn’s ‘voice’. Rayborn makes little asides and and remarks that a middle school boy would find funny (generally sexually charged comments, like: The wonderfully named Continue reading
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LIVING THE BEATLES LEGEND – Kenneth Womack
I have read a lot of Beatles-related books over the past dozen years that I’ve been writing this review blog but this is perhaps the most moving and the most insightful of all that I’ve read. Mal Evans was possibly closer to the Beatles than other individual, from their early days at The Cavern Club, Continue reading
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PILOBOLUS: A STORY OF DANCE AND LIFE – Robert Pranzatelli
I first became acquainted with the work of Pilobolus about 1980 when a theatre professor gave me a VHS tape of their performance on a local PBS station. To say that it was life-changing might be overstating it, but within a years time I had created my own ‘mime and dance’ company which performed locally Continue reading
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THE OTHER FAB FOUR – Mary McGlory and Sylvia Saunders
I’d heard about this book (probably on NPR) and I rushed to get a copy. The first female rock band? Got their start at The Cavern Club about the same time as the Beatles? Like the Beatles, also from Liverpool? Like the Beatles, played the Star-Club in Hamburg? Hung out with the likes of The Continue reading
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SCIENCE FICTION THEATRE – J. P. Telotte
It is not uncommon to see books about early days of popular entertainment, There are some wonderful histories of the early days of television, and there have been several histories of the early days of televised science fiction. This is the first book that I have seen dedicated solely to Science Fiction Theatre. Science Fiction Continue reading
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