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Here is Bruce Belland's September 27, 2024 "Four Preps Newsletter"  https://mailchi.mp/4dafa553a70b/2024-09-27-id-the-celeb-quiz?e=6b04f40768

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Q and A with David H. Lewis, on Keep That Day Job! 1 WHERE DID YOU GET THE IDEA FOR THIS BOOK? When I added up all the jobs I have worked, I was fairly amazed by the total number: 50. It felt like a good hook and book title, but it was only the beginning. 2. IS THIS A HOW-TO BOOK? No, not per se. It’s more a memoir of how I chased my own dreams while holding down day jobs. In pursuing the arts, you’ll need to face reality, you’ll need to deal with rejection, over and over...

“Nailing down a coffin lid is far easier than nailing down a universally agreed upon definition of the term film noir.”                                                                                          Robert Strom   Every so often a book comes along which somehow manages to evoke both our childhood and our love of films at the same time. Cries in the Night: Children in Film Noir is such a book.     I grew up in a place I used to call Shadowland, a quiet suburb of Toronto known officially as Don Mills (the first formally designed suburb in North America) where there wasn’t much to do but listen to music and...

"Crain’s Chicago Business" story about the 60th anniversary of the Chicago International Film Festival:   https://chicagoreader.com/film/movie-feature/chicago-international-film-festival-60th-anniversary/