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O’Brien was the son of the Chief of Police of San Francisco, and the author does a particularly excellent job in recreating the details of the 1906 earthquake and fire, which the O’Brien family survived.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003e\"What a wonderful collection! . . .  I really enjoyed reading about all the films I did not know: and some of the ones that are neglected, like Fig Leaves, which I saw with friends at the Museum of Modern Art during the 1960's . . .  Many thanks for a very complete and sensitive book.\" \u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003e-Orin O'Brien, daughter of George O'Brien\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \"Thank you again for the book. I enjoyed reading it thoroughly and learned alot I did not know . . . you did  a wonderful job in capturing the real George O'Brien, and I admired how you stayed away from the Hollywood gossip angle.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003e-Suzanne O'Brien, daughter-in-law of George O'Brien\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003ciframe height=\"315\" width=\"420\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vrCvfS0JF8c\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/iframe\u003e\u003chr\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 14px;\"\u003eABOUT THE AUTHOR\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cimg 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Associates from the Dallas Morning News invited David to join their operation. They combined their circulation with subscribers obtained in their acquisition of the Dallas Times Herald. David took on leadership responsibilities with their locally produced version of Parade Magazine, for which he contributed many articles.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Like many of his contemporaries, David broke away from the newspaper industry in 2003 when failing economics forced many publications to downsize or close altogether. He struck out on his own as a freelance writer, immediately finding success as the accredited author of:\u003cbr\u003e Sarah Bernhardt: In the Theater, Film and Sound Recordings (McFarland 2003)\u003cbr\u003e The First Female Stars: Women of the Silent Era (Greenwood\/Praeger 2004)\u003cbr\u003e The First Male Stars: Men of the Silent Era (BearManor Media 2008)\u003cbr\u003e Richard Barthelmess: A Life in Pictures (BearManor Media 2009)\u003cbr\u003e George O’Brien: A Man’s Man in Hollywood (BearManor Media January 2010)\u003cbr\u003e “Otay!” The Billy “Buckwheat” Thomas Story (BearManor Media March 2010)\u003cbr\u003e Wally: The True Wallace Reid Story (BearManor Media December 2010)\u003cbr\u003e The Remarkable Mr. Messing (Menefee Publishing, Inc. 2011)\u003cbr\u003e Brothers of the Storm (Menefee Publishing, Inc. 2011)\u003cbr\u003e The Rise and Fall of Lou-Tellegen (Menefee Publishing, Inc. 2011)\u003cbr\u003e MARGOT CRANSTON The Secret of the St. Lawrence Lighthouse (Menefee Publishing, Inc. 2011)\u003cbr\u003e MARGOT CRANSTON The Mystery at Loon Lake (Menefee Publishing, Inc. 2011)\u003cbr\u003e MARGOT CRANSTON The Quest for the Jade Dragons (Menefee Publishing, Inc. 2011)\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e In collaboration with Richard J. Maturi, he recently wrote the new screenplay for Triple Crown.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e As ghost writer, David has written:\u003cbr\u003e Slaves to Medicine by accredited author Dr. George Beauchamp (Brown Books 2006)\u003cbr\u003e Lilian Hall-Davis: The English Rose, by accredited author Richard Davis (unpublished)\u003cbr\u003e A Craving for Travel by accredited author Jim Strong (Brown Books 2009)\u003cbr\u003e Texting Harry by accredited author Connie Podesta (Brown Books 2010)\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e As editor, David has supervised the creation of:\u003cbr\u003e Sonnets by Robert Brown (Brown Books 2006)\u003cbr\u003e Downtown Dallas, Romantic Past, Modern Renaissance by Mark Rice (Brown Books 2006)\u003cbr\u003e James Best Autobiography (BearManor Media 2009)\u003cbr\u003e Burlesque: A Living History (BearManor Media 2009)\u003cbr\u003e When Game Shows Ruled Daytime TV by Norm Blumenthal (BearManor Media 2010)\u003cbr\u003e Six Cult Films From The Sixties by Ib Melchior (BearManor Media 2010)\u003cbr\u003e Now and Then, The Movies Get It Right by Neal Stannard (BearManor Media 2010)\u003cbr\u003e Endless Summer: My Life With The Beach Boys by Jack Lloyd. (BearManor Media 2010)\u003cbr\u003e Will the Real Me Please Stand Up by Christopher Knopf (BearManor Media 2010)\u003cbr\u003e Tales from the Script by Gene Perrett (BearManor Media 2009)\u003cbr\u003e Best in Hollywood: The Good. The Bad. 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Some of the best-loved films in motion-picture history have been musicals.  And, with the exception of several MGM originals and a few of the show-business biographies, the most admired musical films have been those adapted from the stage. Of the seven musicals that have won the Academy Award for Best Picture, four—\u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eWest Side Story, My Fair Lady, The Sound of Music, \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eOliver!\u003c\/em\u003e—had their origins in the theatre. \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003e              However, the transfer of a production from stage to screen is, to say the least, a precarious affair. Many of Broadway’s most successful shows have bombed on celluloid.  Why does this happen?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp data-mce-fragment=\"1\"\u003eIn an attempt to answer that question, film writer Michael B. 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In order to survive, many will teach or proofread or tend bar. Given these realities, two things about Ed Wood stand out: he seldom, if ever, held \"day jobs\" unconnected to his passions; and achieved posthumous worldwide fame for a fringe career hobbled by his alcoholism and his very modest (if uniquely bizarre) gifts as a writer. Tim Burton's 1994 biopic \u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003eEd Wood \u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003esuggests a sunny, eternally optimistic man-but it's hard to be sunny when your life crumbles into pornography, cheap apartments you're unable to pay for, and the need for that next drink. Filmstar handsome as a young man, Wood grew puffy and unkempt in middle age. His second wife, Kathy, remained by his side, but when Wood's body finally gave out in 1978, Ed was only 54 years old.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e                The 60 short stories collected by Bob Blackburn in \u003cem\u003eAngora Fever \u003c\/em\u003ewere written for bottom-feeding, LA-based girlie magazines such as \u003cem\u003eSwitch Hitters\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eYoung Beavers\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003ePussy Willow\u003c\/em\u003e, and \u003cem\u003eHorror Sex Tales\u003c\/em\u003e. Off and on during the last decade of his life, Wood commuted to Pico Blvd. to labor as a staff writer for Pendulum Publications, where he cranked out still more short stories and other copy at a madman's pace. Many of his tales appeared under pseudonyms (\"Ann Gora\" and \"Dick Trent\" were favorites)-not because of embarrassment but because of his prolific nature: it just wouldn't do to credit every story to \"Edward D. Wood, Jr.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e                 Succinct and one-dimensional, the stories were intended to fill just two or three magazine pages augmented with art or a photo. Whatever the theme or setting, Wood was obliged to pack the tales with sex, most of it calculated to titillate straight male readers. Many plots are in the EC Comics vein, propelled by self-centered or hateful behavior that culminates in amusingly obvious ironies. See, for instance, the intimate amputations in \"Blood Drains Easily,\" \"Filth is the Name for a Tramp,\" and \"Gore in the Alley.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e                Protagonists range from wealthy (horny) businessmen to weathered (horny) cowpokes; from \"luscious\" (and horny) lesbians to amateur (and horny) drag queens. Some are, like Wood, ex-servicemen, fed up with the world and oblivious to risk. Wood's women are invariably insatiable, often greedy, and sometimes murderous. There is potent misogyny here, likely not a reflection of Wood's own feelings but a prerequisite for the magazine's publishers and readers. Male characters are highly sexed as well, which clouds their judgment and encourages them to fall in with the dangerous females.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e                A significant number of stories reflects the male fear of lesbians, but once in a while a male character develops a broader view, like the space ship commander of \"Time, Space and the Ship\" who schemes to replace his crew with \"butch LESBIANS!\" (capital letters and exclamation point in original). Well, that's very egalitarian.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e                The stories do not, however, place personal responsibility at the fore. Rather, plot twists are predicated on Fate, one of Wood's preoccupations, a device that simply lets awful things unfold, as if destined. 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