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Aug 20
Maria Callas: What’s A Little Myth-Making?
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...
Jul 5
Book Reviews
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...
Apr 18
The Heart of the Matter: Devil’s Advocate/L’Avocat du diable
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...
Jan 26
The Great American Broadcast
February 2024 The Great American Broadcast A Celebration of Radio’s Golden Age by Leonard Maltin An admitted child of the TV...
Jan 25
New Bookends
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...
Sep 19, 2020
Closing Bookend
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...
Jul 1, 2020
Castles in Spain - Don Quixote
July 2020 The masterpiece of Don Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Don Quixote , has become more of a romantic legend than the romantic...
Oct 31, 2019
Montaigne: Des Cannibales
Halloween 2019 They just don’t do cannibalism like they used to! Such was my response after reading “Des Cannibales,” Of Cannibals, the...
Aug 9, 2019
The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo: Treasure Island
May 2019 The X Marks the Spot The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo: Treasure Island (Adapted for Television by Walter Black) A Book Review...
Aug 1, 2019
Disney on Strike! Part II
August 2019 The Wonderful World Beyond Disney: by Ronald Milligan After the Walt Disney Strike of 1941, things were never the same for...
Jul 1, 2019
Disney on Strike!
July 2019 Prelude During the autumn of 2018, Debra began to read what is deemed the definitive biography of Walter Elias Disney — Walt...
Jun 21, 2019
Revolution! Almost a Miracle
Summer Reading 2019 Almost a Miracle by John Ferling Published 2007 It is with enormous pleasure that I am reading this book about the...
Mar 20, 2019
Glorious Technicolor
Spring 2019 Spring into Technicolor Resistance to Change What’s Old Is New! The forces that oppose change — and form resistance to...
Mar 1, 2019
Mr. Magoo's The Count of Monte Cristo
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...
Feb 1, 2019
Mr. Magoo’s Cyrano de Bergerac
February 2019 Mr. Magoo’s Cyrano de Bergerac (Adapted for the Screen by True Boardman) A Book Review by Ronald Milligan The original...
Jan 6, 2019
Retreat into Tomorrow
Epiphany 2019 The Writer’s Guide to Everyday Life in the 1800s by Marc McCutcheon Hardcover - 320 pages Writers Digest Books First...
Jan 1, 2019
Introduction to The Famous Adventures of Mr. Magoo
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...
Dec 21, 2018
Book Reports - Introduction
Winter Solstice 2018 It was the reading & writing bane of my childhood existence, The Book Report. The mere concept of reading a book...
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