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		<title>A Ray of Light</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:49:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks Peters</dc:creator>
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The other day while channel surfing, I stumbled upon an old film on Fox Movie Channel that I had never seen before: Ten North Frederick (1958), based on the popular John O&#8217;Hara novel. This A-list picture starred Gary Cooper and Geraldine Fitzgerald, as well as a young Diane Varsi. Suzy Parker played Cooper&#8217;s love interest. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Telamon&#8217;s Song</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jul 2010 15:07:29 +0000</pubDate>
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[The following is a short story I&#8217;m working on, based in part on an actual incident from my childhood.)
Most of the streets in Munsey Park, where I grew up, were named after famous American artists, since the man who founded the village, Frank A. Munsey, had made his fortune as publisher of a popular culture [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Lust in the Dust</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 11 Jan 2010 16:26:30 +0000</pubDate>
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The wonderful thing about falling in love with dead people is that they can&#8217;t kiss and tell. I&#8217;m not talking about necrophilia, mind you. That&#8217;s too macabre, and a bit too, how do you say? &#8212; visceral. No, I&#8217;m referring to that peculiar sensation that sometimes comes over me when I come in contact with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Act of Writing</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 07 Dec 2009 23:24:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks Peters</dc:creator>
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Anyone who reads this blog regularly knows that I am just as passionate about actors as I am about writers. For me a good actor, either on the stage or on film, is someone who &#8220;writes&#8221; his own part by imbuing it with nuance, intelligence and an intangible connection with the audience. Intuition is key, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Madcap Marquis</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Oct 2009 21:09:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks Peters</dc:creator>
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Ironically, the same day in Maine that I found the novel based on James Dean, featured here last week, I also happened to come across an old issue of Saga magazine from December 1957 with Alfonso de Portago on the cover. Nicknamed &#8220;the madcap Marquis,&#8221; this flamboyant Spanish playboy had lived large, and died, like [...]]]></description>
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		<title>James Dean: Between the Sheets</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Oct 2009 16:34:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks Peters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[An American Idol in Novels 


Driving home from my September sojourn in Maine, I stopped in at one of the many book barns on the roadside along the coast. I used to make my living by scouring such places for rare first editions, esoteric ephemera and the odd volume. But since closing the shop, as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Channel Surfing</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 19 Aug 2009 14:27:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks Peters</dc:creator>
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I&#8217;m still getting suggestions from friends for other examples of mispronounced French words, including a true classique: the Fontainebleau Hotel, above, in Miami which everyone and his grandmere pronounces as &#8220;Fountain Blow.&#8221; Even I do. And pourquoi pas? It&#8217;s as American as, well&#8230;Miami Beach.

All of which reminds me of one of my all-time favorite TV [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Zarah with a Z!</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 01 May 2009 13:21:59 +0000</pubDate>
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Thank God It&#8217;s Freitag, because that is the day I get to share my latest YouTube discoveries. Here&#8217;s a pair, posted by zarahliliwen, of the one and only Zarah Leander. Consider it a Before and After video experience. The first is from one of her classic films. In the second, she is tackling (and I [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Gods and Monsters</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Aug 2008 17:07:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks Peters</dc:creator>
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The Olympics have always been a time for hero worship and myth-making. Back in ancient days, the winners at the Olympiad were treated as living gods. Today they are treated as commodities, teasers between commercials. &#8220;Stay tuned. Don&#8217;t touch that dial. Michael Phelps in 44 minutes.&#8221;

One can&#8217;t watch the Olympics today without wondering what it [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Mythic Art of Quaintance</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Apr 2008 14:47:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Brooks Peters</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Apropos Dick Dubois, the subject of my previous, surprisingly popular, post, I received an email from Ken Furtado who is writing a book about George Quaintance, the famed 50s physique artist. According to Ken, Dick Dubois was Quaintance&#8217;s last model before the artist&#8217;s untimely death. Dick was posing for a painting entitled &#8220;Odin Welcoming the [...]]]></description>
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