If I’ve learned anything the past couple of months it is this: Do not do a book signing with a blind raccoon. Trouper is the raccoon in question. Kyle Miller has written a children’s book devoted to Trouper’s adventures. She…
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Tales From the Tour: Old Girl Friends, Movie Moguls, Sad Stories, and a Blind Raccoon
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The Detroit Auto Show, A Woman Name Michele, A Failed Romance
The Detroit Auto Show got underway yesterday, and in the way I have lately of linking these things, the show always makes me think of a woman named Michele and the romantic, embarrassing mess of an encounter I had with her so…
Tagged with: CBS News, Chicago, Detriot, Detroit Auto Show, Dorothy Hunt, E. Howard Hunt, Harold Robbins, Michele Clark, Richard Nixon, Walter Cronkite, Watergate, WBBM-TV
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Standing In Airports, Holding A Book, Listening To Stories
This week a reader of The Sanibel Sunset Detective novels e-mailed me several questions, ending with this one: “Why does a man with ten published books to his credit spend his time hawking a handful of them in an airport?”…
Tagged with: Another Sanibel Sunset Detective, Captiva Island, Chicago, Ford, Fort Myers, Fort Myers Beach, France, Galapagos Islands, Germany, Hitler, James Patterson, Nazis, Ontario, Pete's Time Out, Sanibel Island, Shanghai, The Sanibel Sunset Detective, Windsor, World War II
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That Afternoon With Henry Fonda
In a fit of nostalgia yesterday I pulled John Ford’s 1946 western, My Darling Clementine, off my DVD shelf and watched it on our new fifty-five-inch Sony television screen. Magical: it brings old movies to life again with a sharpness and clarity that…
Tagged with: 12 Angry Men, Abraham Lincoln, Ambassador East Hotel, Chicago, Clarence Darrow, Detroit, Fisher Theatre, Henry Fonda, Jane Fonda, John Ford, King Vidor, Mr. Roberts, My Darling Clementine, Once Upon A Time in the West, Shirlee Fonda, The Battle of the Bulge, The Grapes of Wrath, The Trial of A. Lincoln, War and Peace, Wyatt Earp
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The Puzzle Without A Solution
I remember the day clearly. Fifty years ago, in the time when news still arrived in newspapers, the afternoon edition of the Toronto Telegram fell onto our small town Ontario doorstep reporting that Marilyn Monroe, age thirty-six, had been found dead at…
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The Chicago Story
I met her in Detroit a long time ago at a party for author Harold Robbins. Michelle—although she called herself Mickie then—was one of the models hired for the occasion to promote Robbins as the real life incarnation of the irresistible stud he…
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