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My talk on UNFETTERED and pop music today, called  “New Standards for a New Century: Pop Music Today,” that I gave in Greenwich, Connecticut on April 15, 2026 is now online:   https://greenwichrma.org/past-speakers#gsc.tab=0  

TEN QUESTIONS & ANSWERS FOR …SUCH CREATURES IN! by Bruce J Starin (Clicking on the picture takes you to an amazon affiliate link) 1. Throughout your lengthy career in show business you have come into contact with a huge variety of people, places and situations…  How did you remember them all? After telling an early mentor of mine who was a working writer for a network police drama, I had been hired as a Social Director on a thousand passenger cruise ship, he had three simple words of advice, that proved to be unbelievably prophetic,  “Keep a notebook!”   I came...

"Lobenthal (Tallulah!: The Life and Times of a Leading Lady) and playwright Willis present the first book about Diana Sands, the trailblazing Black actress whose career was tragically cut short when she died of cancer at 39 in 1973. Sands rose to prominence in “A Raisin in the Sun,” appearing in both the 1959 Broadway play and the 1961 film version. In 1964, she earned her first Tony nomination for James Baldwin’s “Blues for Mr. Charlie.” The following year, she received another Tony nomination for “The Owl and the Pussycat,” playing opposite Alan Alda, a notable role because her skin...

DOUBLE SHOCK HORROR! Horror/Sci-Fi/Fantasy Combos in British Cinemas 1958-1970 Q & A with author Barry Atkinson This is a Hard Cover, Paperback and eBook about the horror/sci-fi/fantasy double programs that proliferated in British cinemas throughout the 1950s and 1960s, providing audiences with a vast array of cinematic delights on a weekly basis, as will be seen from the author’s never-ending trips to various cinemas in search of all things of a fantastical nature. In those days, the feature film as a form of mass entertainment reigned supreme over all others, the British censor’s office dictating, by means of strict film...