• What Can “The Music Man” Tell Us About Writing?

    Have you ever seen the musical comedy “The Music Man”?  Either the stage production or the movie?  At least one movie channel on DirectTV, a TV provider through the internet, has been showing the original movie recently, and I’ve seen it again after I-don’t-know-how-many years.  I’ve always liked it for its catchy music, well-done comedic…

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  • An Ending To Think About

    I had a chance a few months ago to see (twice, as a matter of fact) the movie “The Bridges at Toko-Ri” on television.  These were the first times I had seen the movie since it came out in December, 1954.  As an impressionable junior high school student with an interest in flying and with a father…

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