JohnKyle
I'm a retired secondary teacher/librarian/coach who has had some success as a freelance writer, mostly in historical periodicals. Most important people in my life are my wife, three married daughters and eight grandchildren (my sons-in-law are OK, too).
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Neglected Movie Gems of the 1950s: Outrage, So Long at the Fair and MoreRanging from science fiction and suspense to the off-beat, these five movies are proof that a film can stay with you long after the first viewing. They also represent the early years of several acting careers and the later stages of others.
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2007's Most Surprising College Football TeamsWith parity becoming more apparent every year in college football, it has been quite common for each new season to produce several teams that greatly exceed their pre-season expectations. Listed below are five schools that have done so this year.
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2007's Most Disappointing College Football TeamsHere is my list of the five most disappointing college football teams this year. The teams on it, for the most part, had high expectations of one sort or another placed on them by the pre-season polls and the opinions of experts.
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8 More Forgotten Movies of the 1940s: Scarlet Claw to Unfaithfully YoursHere are eight more additional movies to supplement my earlier "8 Forgotten Movies of the 1940s..." As in my previous list, it can be reasonably argued that several of them are not really "forgotten"
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The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Dust Bowl SurvivorsPulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author Timothy Egan has blended historical documents, newspaper accounts, diaries, and personal interviews into a harrowing account of life in the High Plains during the Dust Bowl years of the 1930s.
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8 Forgotten Movies of the 1940s: From The Clock to Larceny, Inc.Following, are eight forgotten movies of the 1940s. Some were low budget "B" movies while others were main programmers.
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La Mome (La Vie En Rose): A Film ReviewThe tumultuous life of French chanteuse Edith Pilaf is brought to the screen in the French film La Mome, released in the United States this past year as La Vie en Rose and now available on DVD. The film is directed by Olivier Dahan and stars Marion Cotillard as Edith.
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City Lights (1931) Movie ReviewIn the period between 1921 and 1940, the legendary Charles Chaplin created a series of motion pictures, all but one silent, that are considered classics today. Among the finest, if not arguably the finest, was City Lights...
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Mon Meilleur Ami (My Best Friend) Movie ReviewFrench director Patrice Leconte's Mon Meilleur Ami (My Best Friend) tells a simple, often predictable, tale of a man trying to find friendship or, more specifically, a man trying to find a friend - any friend.