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Contents   Foreword by Joe Marchese                                                                             Introduction                                                                                                    Acknowledgements                                                                                              FREE at Last                                                                                          Jacques Tati Savors Life Without Moderation                                             The AI Stereoization of Judy Garland                                                       Bobby Darin: A Rebel with a Cause                                                           Carly Simon: A Transgenre Artist                                                              The Symphony, Chamber Music…and Film Scoring, an Art in Progress      The Judy Garland Show: The Devine Comedy                                                Let’s Toast to Absinthe, Mae West and the Foxtrot!                                   Judy Garland By a Fan for the Fans                                                          Harold Arlen: Jots and Tapeworms                                                           Judy Garland: “The Most Memorable Evening of My Life”                       Judy Garland: Her Voice Was a Pistol                                                       Judy Garland: Resolution Is High,...

Q&A with Michael Mallory, author of It's a Mystery!  Q:        What prompted you to write this book?   A:        This is a collection of articles I wrote for Mystery Scene Magazine over a period of seventeen years. While some of the pieces cover other media such as television, radio, and even comic books, most of them focus on print authors who were enormously popular in their day, but with time have fallen into obscurity. A couple of them were so famous in their heyday that they appeared on the cover of Time Magazine. I...

Q&A with Ange Clancy-Sukala, author of the Gracie Allen book What made you decide to write a book about Gracie Allen?I’ve always been a fan of Gracie, and I thought it wasn’t fair that her story was always told in conjunction with George Burns. So, I wanted to tell Gracie’s side of her story. 2. What kind of research did you do for the book?Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to get in touch with any family members, so I had to rely on her friend’s memoirs, newspaper articles and published interviews. I also spent a lot of time watching Gracie in...

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