As an inquisitive kid growing up in rural northwest Georgia, I was always looking for ways to keep from being bored — reading, watching TV or going to the movies.
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In our family, movies were special events because most of our entertainment came from television. So I don’t remember seeing a lot of films, but there is one that holds …
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Movies — or films, as I would call them when I was growing up in the United Kingdom — have always been a huge part of my life.
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The emergency lights flickered on and off. I found myself 30 feet in the air hanging onto the edge of a railing.
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When I was growing up in the 1960s, the entertainer Danny Kaye seemed to be everywhere — today traveling the world on behalf of UNICEF, tonight hosting his own CBS …
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When I was a child, I had childish dreams to be a superhero or a pro athlete. Alas, my only super power was secondary perception, the ability to say, after …
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I am a graduate teaching assistant in Professor Alan Downer’s Twentieth-Century Theatre class at Princeton University in 1968. Along with several hundred students and a handful of other TAs, I …
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The 1970s were years of change for me. I was pregnant with my first child and struggling with the decision to either give up a career that I had worked …
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I am a war baby who grew up in Texas before leaving for a larger world that included living in Manhattan for 22 years and moving to Los Angeles to …
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They say that dogs are man’s best friends. The problem is that I didn’t have a dog when I grew up in the small town of Edinburg, Texas.