May 24, 2013
11:25 a.m.
My blog today is a part of the Children in Film Blogathon hosted by the wonderful Comet Over Hollywood, May 24-26, 2013. I decided to focus on Jane Withers, who is still alive and thriving and who herself is a fan of classic films. I was most familiar ...
May 21, 2013
11:35 p.m.
A big thank you to Movies, Silently, an excellent blog that I like to read which explores silent films(did you know that Hopalong Cassidy was a silent film hunk before he was a cowboy hero to baby boomers?) Movies, Silently has nominated me for the Supe...
May 17, 2013
11:27 a.m.
1949 and James Cagney’s independent movie production company wasn’t faring so well. Warner Brothers came calling, and he agreed to let them help produce and distribute a movie that they had the rights for and wanted him to star in, White Heat...
May 14, 2013
11:25 a.m.
As I have mentioned in some prior blogs, we have two students in the Rolla Public Schools. So, far we have been pleased with the education our sons have been receiving, and very pleased with the communications, via emails, that we receive Monday-Friday ...
May 10, 2013
5:23 a.m.
In 1936, writers Charles Nordhoff and James Norman Hall published their 7th adventure novel, The Hurricane. Their 4th novel, Mutiny on the Bounty, published in 1932, had been such a literary sensation that MGM turned it into a film in 1935 starring Clar...
May 7, 2013
5:25 p.m.
In late March, our household received a mailing from the Rolla Public Schools with our teen sons’ names on the envelope. I immediately opened the envelope to find in it a colorful card, and a pamphlet containing information about synthetic drugs. ...
May 3, 2013
11:34 a.m.
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
About 6 years ago as I was channel surfing one Saturday afternoon and the children who needed to nap were napping and the older children were occupying themselves, I found a great film to view. The fi...
April 30, 2013
11:30 a.m.
With a large family, I knew that college and its costs would be the big bugaboo in our family. My husband’s philosophy is that if the kids want a college education than they’ll find a way to pay for it themselves, and urging them not to do i...
April 25, 2013
11:29 p.m.
When I came into the living room this evening, my husband was viewing something on his laptop computer and he kept chuckling and laughing. I finally asked him what was so funny? He told me that he was watching The Odd Couple, that Netflix Streaming had ...
April 23, 2013
11:33 a.m.
When I began my blog I decided to use WordPress for my work and publishing site, and it has been a great support system for me in my blogging adventure. One feature that WordPress has is a section called “Stats”. I can click on the Stat...
