8 April 2025 To quote the lyrics of Alan Jay Lerner from the song, Show Me, in My Fair Lady — with slight revisions by me:   Words,...

March 2025 On Labor Day 2013, I posted this essay on my newly created website.  The title, Blithely Unaware , refers to my attitude...

20 August 2024 If one sets aside the tragic life that Maria Callas lived, then the majesty of her artistry can be appreciated.  If one...

5 July 2024 Pity me, or don’t pity me, cause I reject pity, but, at times, for pleasure, or mere distraction of an empty kind, I read...

Spring Reading 2024 I begin this book review of the French version of a 1959 novel by Australian author Morris West (26 April 1916 - 9...

February 2024 The Great American Broadcast A Celebration of Radio’s Golden Age by Leonard Maltin   An admitted child of the TV...

26 January 2024 This morning, I decided to re-open the Book Review section with a new set of bookends.  I’ve an opening salvo, a...

Summer’s End 2020 This ship has sailed! The Book Reports section of my website is now officially closed, and joyfully so. I am much more...

July 2020 The masterpiece of Don Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote , has become more of a romantic legend than the romantic...

Halloween 2019 They just don’t do cannibalism like they used to! Such was my response after reading “Des Cannibales,” Of Cannibals, the...

May 2019 The X Marks the Spot The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo: Treasure Island (Adapted for Television by Walter Black) A Book Review...

August 2019 The Wonderful World Beyond Disney: by Ronald Milligan After the Walt Disney Strike of 1941, things were never the same for...

July 2019 Prelude During the autumn of 2018, Debra began to read what is deemed the definitive biography of Walter Elias Disney — Walt...

Summer Reading 2019 Almost a Miracle by John Ferling Published 2007 It is with enormous pleasure that I am reading this book about the...

Spring 2019 Spring into Technicolor Resistance to Change What’s Old Is New! The forces that oppose change — and form resistance to...

March 2019 The Count Counts - Mr. Magoo's The Count of Monte Cristo A Book Review by Ronald Milligan There is nothing like the strains of...

February 2019 Mr. Magoo’s Cyrano de Bergerac (Adapted for the Screen by True Boardman) A Book Review by Ronald Milligan The original...

Epiphany 2019 The Writer’s Guide to Everyday Life in the 1800s by Marc McCutcheon Hardcover - 320 pages Writers Digest Books First...

2019: New Year Books An Introduction to The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo by Ronald Milligan Ah, a night at the Theatre! Or the next...

Winter Solstice 2018 It was the reading & writing bane of my childhood existence, The Book Report. The mere concept of reading a book...