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I Don’t Want to Know

Posted in Culture, Movies, Television, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on 22 Jul 2014| 13 Comments »

I know nothing about James Garner. And I want to keep it that way.

When I was young, I had several TV Westerns from which to choose:  Have Gun Will Travel, Branded, Bonanza, F Troop, The Rifleman, Rawhide, Gunsmoke, and Maverick, just to name a few.

By far, Maverick was my favorite, and James Garner was the reason why.

Later, when Mr. Garner showed up in a new series, The Rockford Files, I tuned in regularly.

Growing older, I looked farther back and found his movies, including Sayonara, The Great Escape, and my favorite, The Americanization of Emily (which I echoed in the title of my novella, The Revitalization of Emily).

In short, I was a fan.

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3 Things You Need to Know About HBO and Game of Thrones

Posted in Books, Television, Writing, tagged , , , , , , , , on 29 Apr 2014| 1 Comment »

I don’t have HBO, so I can only watch HBO’s Game of Thrones a decade or so after the premium class sees it. However, that has not saved me from seeing meme after meme based on the series, nor from having to wade through a sea of posts about how this was so good and that was so bad and–of course–how so many things were different than they were in the book.

Aficionados are terribly tempted to hold forth on the subject of their passion (and trust me, I do understand this temptation) but before you do so, before you post that screed on that critical aspect that HBO got wrong, there are three things you need to know: (more…)

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