Five Questions: Grumpy Old Bookman

28th July 2006 with 6 Comments

1. Why do you blog?
Here is a copy of a piece that I wrote in May 2006 on the whys and wherefores of blogging:
One post on the Arts Journal blog which caught my eye deals with the question of why people bother to create blogs anyway. And it asks a question which, for many bloggers, [...]

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Presque vu I

2nd July 2006 with 0 Comments

The Independent ran a piece on The Method in which John Hiscock remembered the exploits of the actors who have used the technique over the years. Sissy Spacek was introduced to the Actors Studio and auditioned for Stephen King’s Carrie (1976), She didn’t wash, put Vaseline on her hair and turned up in [...]

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