My Current Interest

              After watching Garrow’s Law , I became interested to see what else Andrew Buchan (the man who played William Garrow) was in.   I looked up his other works and put some of them on my movie list.   Then, because they were so far down the list, I forgot all about them.   It wasn’t until I decided to grab something from my list and see if it was available at my library that I really payed attention to what I had added.   This is why, when I saw Cranford on my list, I could not remember why it was there.   Then I saw Mr. Buchan’s name in the credits and I remembered exactly why I wanted to explore this miniseries.   How exactly Mr. Buchan was part of it, I did not know, and that is why I had to watch; in order to find out.                 Set in 1840s England, and based off a series of books, Cranford ...

              I have always wondered with mysteries, if a main character comes to town and murders suddenly start to happen, does the main character ever believe the newly arisen problems are because of them?   That somehow they brought the trouble?   This is something I have thought about many times when watching Murder, She Wrote .   As much as I love the show, I cannot help but wonder if Jessica Fletcher thinks she’s cursed because everywhere she goes someone gets killed.   This exact thought was actually a topic of conversation in one of the Monk episodes, one of the few places, if not the only, where I have ever seen this type of thought addressed.   Of course, the situation is different when the main character is a police office or police detective, but for everyone else, it certainly makes me wonder.               ...

Image obtained from www.penguinrandomhouse.com.           It took me a long time to figure out how to write about this book.   I don’t know if it’s because I Loved Her in the Movies is non-fiction and I usually write about fiction, or if it’s because there was so much information on every page that I often felt like I was cramming for a test.   Either way, I really struggled on what to say about this book that I not only enjoyed but also feel is important for others to read.   The way things worked behind the scenes in early Hollywood is both fascinating and horrifying, especially when it came to how women were treated and what they had to do to simply have a career.   There was so much more involved in making these classic films than was ever seen on screen.   Struggles and difficulties that an audience would probably never know about as they sat in theatres and watched the films play before their eyes. ...