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Nomadland. A movie. A review. A life.

Nomadland.

Wow, does this beautiful, dreary, metaphorical, meaningful film resonate for days and days after viewing carefully. Mesmerizing, sad, hopeful … no matter what age bracket / demographic crap you happen to be categorized within.




If you are very very fortunate, you will live at least until your 70s in this troubled yet fascinating earth world of ours - and you'll be happy that this movie is still resonating in your heart and brain.

I have recorded memories for over a decade and received no pay nor many thank yous and it was taxing yet satisfying WORK. I am still recalling and remembering but need a staff and need some computer instruction.

Needy, needy still at this late date. We ALL need each other and understanding and kindness. Let us never forget. Have a nice day and do view this masterpiece starring wonderful Academy Award winner Frances McDormand! Bravo! You will thank me in the morning! Thank you, Roy, Edna, and Roy for a wonderful life.



I owe this daddy person, pictured above, a hell of a lot. This fun and sensible one of a kind bigger than life human being died too young at 74. I have recently passed THAT milestone after trying a couple of times to join him in heaven where he was badly needed.

I have learned how to breathe better from Paul Sorvino (via Dick Cavett Show) and how to back away from constant combat offered to me daily and have tried to comprehend why we cannot all get along and appreciate one another. (But eff that - I give up on that one!)

I am almost there without ingesting pills or imbibing alcohol which I never ever believed in for a second and still do not. Like this person, pictured above, I stopped hanging out with folks who did the party scene.

I am lucky to have inherited one quality from him...SPUNK. Oh, and a huge heart! You can see from this photo how fun he was...kind of like Lucille Ball or Andy Griffith. This was taken when he served as a director in the Indiana Manufacturer's Association in the 1960s.

He was a transplanted Southerner and a very excellent Baptist who swung over to Lutheran and then to Methodist, after enduring a sad "building project" he headed up attempting to save an historic building before that noble effort even became fashionable.

Like his, my heart has also gotten broken by small town life, but those are the hazards of having a heart in the first place. Hoo-ray for SPUNK after all! Do not forget to be kind and to always care a lot about the underdogs quietly and consistently. A-men, Brother Ben! And do thank other humans once in awhile if they deserve it!



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Happy New Year.

This nostalgic professionally photographed family picture boggles my mind.



What a serene looking group. Why did this attractive couple have one more kid? Me? Often told by a sibling, to avoid induction into World War II, BUT the war was over...sorta?

I, referred to as the "black sheep" later by a nephew, (who is almost my same age), appear so disheveled and clueless at age two or whatever? And the most hilarious fact is that is what I look like tonight some seven decades later...

No longer five feet nine inches but uncombed hair sticking out every which way but loose ... studying some odd object in my goofy hands. Orthopedic shoes and untied sash.

Whoa.

Exiting just as I entered once upon a time! In front of the same exact fireplace. Lord have mercy!

My life story caught for posterity! Enjoy! Send help?

Ha!

Postscript

A friend (?) of my mother’s asked her when she saw this photo many years after the fact, "Edna, you had long hair once? Did your family still like you anyway?" Meow.

People. People who need people ...

My niece Kathy reminded me upon viewing this photo just now on Facebook that my mother gave her some of my old books ....Nancy Drew?

When I was at college (to my dismay), my mother gave my life away. I loved my stuff. They wanted me to grow up! Fooled them.

Yep, those little books resembled stepping stones....kinda marble-ized...and the little rooms jazz made up of paper doll folders! What I would not give to have my movie star paper dolls back? Think they got burned in the alley? Mother would do that every so often with kid's magazines and movie magazines in the incinerator...arghhhh.

Happy New Year.

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EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION

Something to behold--odd "white male rage"?
In this more enlightened day and age?
Poised on such a precarious stage
Startled, our threatened environment
Sighs while veering toward retirement!
Time "tick tocks", imploring improvement.
Evolution! Welcome its movement.
Peace on Earth… ~ Susie Sexton

(the poet in me trying a POEM, thus a POET TRY so my soul relaxes and feels happy?)

P.S. Two birds with one stone for which neither can atone!



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"What have you got to cry about?" Do correct inconsistency. Stay brave.

"She persisted. Became intimidated. For that shyness she is ashamed and only that. Do correct inconsistency. Stay brave." ~ S.

"Disrespect is worse than hate." ~ Congressman James Clyburn

"Let nothing dent your dignity!" ~ Mom of John Lewis



Geesh...I got yelled at for crying today? Nothing new, but what's up with that? "What have you got to cry about?" Barked out query kinda answers itself, don’t ya think? And this world is kinda a very sad place these days? Welcome to another day at home.

Pretty sure nobody was born to copy Edith Bunker or shrinking violets. Feel free to raise your hand in "class"? Speak up now! "Girl Interrupted!" Never. No more. Forever!

Yes, we all kinda wish to be petted, and on the other hand, we all kinda wish to bite one other? What we gonna do with that? I invented "peacock" analogy as an original thought, but a "woke" male pundit stole it--we are both correct! Vote the bums out! A favorite Congressman (D) might have scathingly spoken "spirit of masculine sacrifice" as I passed by tv...Made me LOL! Susan B. Anthony or Joan of Arc started it all....I am late to this game, but I am participating nevertheless!

"Those closest to the pain are closest to the power." ~ Ayanna Pressley

"Once you get something inside your head, nobody can take it away from you." ~ Mom of John Lewis



Sad to admit that I am sad about this. Why sad? Because humans are just totally nuts and probably do not care about ourselves or others at the core of our beings: ”Children and staff at Georgia overnight camp test positive for coronavirus, CDC says”

Summer Camp? Really? Why was it ever even invented? Why was a lot of stuff ever thought up actually? We could have always done without, yes, a lot of man-made wackiness? And the profits involved.

Attended Indiana University for three weeks--Hoosier Girls' State and Journalism Institute. Shoulda had Roy outta wedlock and become a pundit! Give up attention deficit. Be informed. Save lives. Get real. Try to recall what real journalism, once upon a time, did provide. Now, get "pretend" newspapers and wads of ads outta the mail bags...delivering nothing but germs! Wise up? "In these uncertain times" means one thing. Buy, buy, buy! Should mean VOTE!

Hey, Warren Buffett and Bill Gates, let's play bridge and let's buy every kid a computer....and let's get this concluded ASAP and stop imploding old creepy school buildings and erecting new creepier ones? A jail is a jail. (And, people, stop taking selfies with casseroles nobody bakes? Just throwing that concept in?) Pipe dream? Huh-uh! Gotta rethink the entire universe yesterday! If not too late? Throw your bajillions at that, gentlemen?

"Oh, Diogenes, find a man who's honest...and Misogyny, do the same?"



Literary tip: Don't know how to lie but possess a healing sense of humor? You has not "jazz" but SATIRE! If God is Mel Brooks, maybe a sense of humor is in order when praying? About to take up praying then! Name change? Al Gorithm maybe? Ed I. Torial? Then run away from home?

Wow? ”Jonathan Isaac's protest could've been applauded if his explanation wasn't nonsense”

Glad I read this, even though I am anything but a basketball fan. Basketball has damaged countless human beings for years. All for chasing a ball in front of God and everybody! So I dropped my prejudices and read until the conclusion and eventually comprehended the writer's very astute point of view. Highly recommend setting aside your previous points of view to read through this rather confusing situation. Become enlightened how very complicated we humans have manufactured this world to be when, as John Lewis stated, all we need is love ... which can be achieved with “good trouble.”

“Bravo!” I say to this writer. Happy to have cared enough to read through how stupidly we have ignored just being kind to one another and loving one another and the sanctity of life itself. Never forget that nature is God manifested and that all living beings deserve to live out their lives?



"Be the natural, beautiful woman you are. The purer one is the more attractive one is." ~ Lou Gossett

"You don't get things done without rubbing folks the wrong way; ambition IS ladylike." ~ Claire McCaskill

"Nobody gives...a shit." ~ Lewis Black

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Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter and its follow-up Misunderstood Gargoyles and Overrated Angels - print and ebook versions of both are available on Amazon (click the title).

The books are also carried by these fine retailers: Ann Arbor's Bookbound and Common Language; Columbia City's Whitley County Historical Museum; and Fort Wayne's The Bookmark.

And you can download from iTunes.

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A modest proposal: northeast Indiana Covid edition

With business as usual in the GOP Hoosier state, 4-H fairs and beauty pageants are still scheduled, and the number of Covid-19 (now Covid-20) infections and death rates rise. Combining national news with global pandemic information and a now single weekly issue of local newspapers, surprising information awaits to be read and watched and listened to when available?

(However near-by, next door Ft. Wayne cancelled fall festivals and its street fair this particularly perilous season. Good for them.)

Wishing I had not read the front page before trying to get some sleep. Might we have voted on these events or could responsible non-political leadership have intervened?

Indiana seemed intelligent for awhile during the past few months when caution was exercised. Uh-oh. Have our individual efforts and diligence over the past half year been wasted and now ignored?

And a severe heat wave is on its way according to coverage of current events. Wish all of us could exercise our right to speak up ahead of choices others make for us.

P.S. my son Roy Sexton responded on Facebook, where the above sentiments were originally posted:

“Beautifully expressed by my mom - this collision of commerce and public safety, self-interest and common sense, lack of oversight and individual accountability has made an absolute mess of everything, and, if one of the desires was to reignite consumer confidence, this ain’t the way to do it IMHO. I don’t think the ‘economic engines’ will light up like (some) people believe. We are instead protracting our long term pain through short term selfishness.”


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Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter and its follow-up Misunderstood Gargoyles and Overrated Angels - print and ebook versions of both are available on Amazon (click the title).

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Thoughts on ... The Story About a Jeep, a Boat and a Helicopter

Knowing I am not totally alone, I guess, I think often of my parents and what they would think and what they would do in the cirumstances I and everybody else seem to be enmeshed in and I need them so.

Then I recall this story which they adored, and I found it via facebook, a spot I have spent too much of my lifetime loving. Kindred souls renew my tired and wounded spirit.

I love conversation and communication.

I love thinking. (I have poured out thoughts via writing.)

I am currently starving on those fronts...so here is the story they quoted often as did my middle sister and my sweet brother-in-law (who saved me and my son one dark week-end when I was so very frightened nearly a half century ago).

Click here for the The Story About a Jeep, a Boat and a Helicopter
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Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter and its follow-up Misunderstood Gargoyles and Overrated Angels - print and ebook versions of both are available on Amazon (click the title).

The books are also carried by these fine retailers: Ann Arbor's Bookbound and Common Language; Columbia City's Whitley County Historical Museum; and Fort Wayne's The Bookmark.

And you can download from iTunes.

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Whatever a feudel fiefdom might be.

It is said that great leaders are born, not made. The saying is true to this degree, that no man can persuade people to do what he wants them to do, unless he genuinely likes people, and believes that what he wants them to do is to their own advantage. - Bruce Fairchild Barton



A great leader is born not made is a theoretical debate that never gets resolved. But then I do not think it can be taught. That is why Washington and Cuomo just have it in them! and FDR! and JFK! and Roy! Vince Lombardi thinks the other way around?

"How did the feudal system work? Under the feudal system land was granted to people for service. It started at the top with the king granting his land to a baron for soldiers all the way down to a peasant getting land to grow crops. The center of life in the Middle Ages was the manor. The manor was run by the local lord."



This piece, written by my son Roy's legal marketing friend Deborah Farone … INSIGHT: What Law Firm Leaders Can Learn From Cuomo’s Pandemic Actions .

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s actions during the coronavirus pandemic offer leadership lessons, writes Deborah B. Farone, founder of Farone Advisors LLC. Law firm leaders faced with tough decisions can learn the importance of taking ownership of responsibility, crystal clear communication, basing actions on statements of fact, and personal empathy.

As an adviser to law firm leaders, I’ve always been interested in the question of what qualities are necessary to be an exceptional leader. And during these days of COVID-19, like many others, I want to hear from someone I trust who has a solid command of the facts. What I turn to each morning is the 11 a.m. press conference delivered by New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo (D).

I’ve continued to watch these conferences day after day, for both the clarity they offer me as a New York citizen, and to experience true leadership during a time of crisis. I greatly admire how Cuomo is both managing the multi-prong and massive challenge posed by the spread of the virus, and the way he communicates the important facts we must know.

Many of these approaches are practices that our business and law firm leaders can apply. The governor’s actions and how he engages with a concerned citizenry during these extraordinary times may be helping to rewrite the rule book of modern leadership.

VERY INTERESTING! I ALREADY ADORE CUOMO, BUT I STILL SEE "INDUSTRY" WRITTEN ALL OVER EVERYTHING. WHETHER SCIENCE OR POLITICS, OR CORPORATIONS, OR GOVERNMENT…AND THE BIG FISH RULE THE DAY AS BIG FISH BERNIE TELLS US ALL AFTER ALL. RATIONALIZATION AND HERD THE PEASANTS TO THEIR FEUDAL FIEFDOM WHATEVER A FEUDAL FIEFDOM MIGHT BE…THEN OFF WITH THEIR HEADS?

AND MOST OF US FALL INTO THAT CATEGORY.



NOBODY, HOWEVER IDIOTICALLY PRODUCTIVE WE MIGHT HAVE BEEN PUSHED INTO BEING AND USED BY THE HIGHER UPS, IS INDISPOSABLE WHEN THE SHIP IS SINKING-- AND WHO MIGHT THE RATS BE? SO BE IT…THOMAS PAINE AND I SEE NO TOMORROW IF YA AIN'T ONE OF THEM THERE AT THE TOP ALREADY EXCEPT WHEN HIDING IN BUNKERS LIKE DICK CHENEY IN VICE.

Sorry to mix my metaphors with bunkers and castle towers and submarines and trenches, and museums, and Architectural Digest-type sacred structures with majestic columns and all the ships at sea. At least we should everyone of us admit to global warming/climate change and that animals will be better off without us mucking up their Darwinian right-to-life and survival of the fittest!

Signed: George Orwell, Theodore Seuss, Kurt Vonnegut, Thoreau, and Bradbury, too



Please read this as you sit on your asses on couches if you possess couches, dear readers, only to be discovered when Pompeii is safe to architecturally dig and marvel at and take selfies with. That is our preposition decree…always end decrees with some kinda propo-prepostion!

POSTSCRIPT: How is Ireland doing? I am ready to abandon my house and move there to live and bask in the security of genius minds which will see us through no doubt about it. But, at this point in time, do we go there by sailboat instead of a jet? I no longer feel loyalty to the United States nor to my Hoosier state neither/either. Signed: Benedict Arnold.

POST-postscript: Is Ireland as corporately minded as our single-minded cowboy nation? I hope not! I want to become a leprechaun tomorrow! And green has always been my favorite color. And Finian's Rainbow is there I hear? OH, Danny boy, I love you so. Too roo loo ra loo ra--'tis an Irish lullaby!



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Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter and its follow-up Misunderstood Gargoyles and Overrated Angels - print and ebook versions of both are available on Amazon (click the title).

The books are also carried by these fine retailers: Ann Arbor's Bookbound and Common Language; Columbia City's Whitley County Historical Museum; and Fort Wayne's The Bookmark.

And you can download from iTunes.

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No replies nor retorts necessary

"Be able to listen to people without losing confidence nor becoming agitated." ~ Louis Pasteur via Deval Patrick!

(I have fallen head over heels in adoration of Louis Pasteur....and not because I got milk?)

HEADLINE: In new Yahoo News/YouGov poll, most voters think Trump committed abuses — but are split on impeachment: https://news.yahoo.com/in-new-poll-mo...

Hallelujah! Well, the wonderful coverage by MSNBC and CNN pundits spouting Russian names right and left can become boring in spite of being essential to our nation...but now the GOP "side" has become, in addition to disastrously alarming, BORING beyond belief. Time to change channels from GOP to DEM! True patriots may be winning the television wars and ratings finally! Let's hear it for the miracles which can be wrought by the so-called "boob tube"! True reality tv at long last! No replies nor retorts necessary, just thankfulness for a possibly restored and healing country!


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Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter and its follow-up Misunderstood Gargoyles and Overrated Angels - print and ebook versions of both are available on Amazon (click the title).

The books are also carried by these fine retailers: Ann Arbor's Bookbound and Common Language; Columbia City's Whitley County Historical Museum; and Fort Wayne's The Bookmark.

And you can download from iTunes.

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That successful effort certainly shines forth as the highlight of my high school days. “Bye Bye Birdie” in Columbia City

“That successful effort certainly shines forth as the highlight of my high school days.” – yours truly about playing Rose in “Bye Bye Birdie” in 1964, the first musical performed in Columbia City High School’s Newell Rice Auditorium. 55 years later, Columbia City High School brings “Bye Bye Birdie” back to the CCHS stage this November as the farewell musical for the current building. Opens tomorrow night! More info: https://www.thepostandmail.com/conten...



https://www.thepostandmail.com/conten...

“With the combined efforts of musicians, dancers, drama enthusiasts, stage managers and light-ing technicians, the Senior Class of 1964 presented Columbia City’s first musical comedy, Bye Bye Birdie,” reads the article from the Columbian, the 1964 yearbook of Columbia City Joint High School.
Be prepared to put on a happy face as, 55 years later, Columbia City High School brings “Bye Bye Birdie” back to the CCHS stage this November as the farewell musical for the current building. A cast of more than 35 students will act, sing and dance their hearts out for audiences on Friday, Nov. 15 and Saturday, Nov. 16 at 7:30 p.m. in the Newell Rice Auditorium.

Set in the late 1950’s, “Bye Bye Birdie” is a romantic musical comedy revolving around the incredible popularity of Conrad Birdie (Ray Barrand), an Elvis-like rock & roll star who’s being drafted into the Army, which puts his publicity agent and songwriter Albert Peterson (Jack Claypool) into something of a pickle. Peterson’s sweetheart, Rosie (Sidney Basham), comes up with a last-ditch nationwide publicity scheme to get Conrad on to the Ed Sullivan Show and plant a lucky last kiss on a teenage fan before heading off overseas. When Kim MacAfee (Ella Kirchner) of Sweet Apple, Ohio wins the honor, all the telephones in her small town ring off the hook, and the entire town reels with anticipation. Kim’s boyfriend, Hugo (Daniel Booker), can’t take the humiliation of his lady love’s televised lip-lock. Rose can’t take another minute of Albert’s distracted ways. And Sweet Apple can’t take its teens’ riotous rebellion, inspired by the arrival of bad-boy Birdie. Will Sweet Apple ever be the same?


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Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter and its follow-up Misunderstood Gargoyles and Overrated Angels - print and ebook versions of both are available on Amazon (click the title).

The books are also carried by these fine retailers: Ann Arbor's Bookbound and Common Language; Columbia City's Whitley County Historical Museum; and Fort Wayne's The Bookmark.

And you can download from iTunes.

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Hello, Henrik!

Love this! Just discovered that my Honors Thesis from my time at Ball State University is available to read from their library site. Check out Henrik Ibsen: “An Enemy of the People” here: http://cardinalscholar.bsu.edu/bitstr...

today, i realized that my honors thesis still exists, and i have copied it and made a notebook. that experience has informed me to this very moment and is the hugest reason of all i was fortunate to have been an honors student which made me the activist and individual i am today at age 73. stay bright and plucky! my cat died monday and i am beside myself but the honors college and dr. strother have perked up my soul to say the least!

i am at last humbled? jesus! i am even reading through it, white-out blemishes and all. too bad i was such an abominable typist! and that drawing? looks like i might have been in kindergarten when i sketched it? i am no artist i fear. and either i was smart enough to use big words way back then or dr. strother had a strong impression upon "this writer" as i refer to myself throughout the "thesis". strother was a true gentleman and a delightful, darling puckish fellow who even attended campus plays i had bit parts in at the time. he had a deep fondness for henrik, so i sense strother thoughts and concepts and language in my dissertation. and this experience made me the man i am today...a rugged individualist and activist.

Troy LaRue, a fraternity brother of my son’s commented on facebook: “Dr. Ed Strother - quite a big deal at BSU! How very neat! I wrote a paper on Ibsen for a theater class at Wabash College. It wasn’t that great. 😂 ...but in fact, some of my research was done at Ball State including discussion with a theater professor (father of a good friend) who worked under Dr. Strother. Perhaps he referenced your work and I didn’t even know it!”

i friended a person named strother years ago on facebook and he was a great person but was not related to dr. ed. who was just an exceptional human. i wrote to dr. ed long ago after i had grown up and faced the real world and he wrote back and i still have that letter...somewhere!

holy moly! i am thinking i may feel proud on this day when i am still grieving for my wonderful disney cat who has left my side forever...but my typing sucks. my excuse? a portable manual typewriter and onion skin paper and white-out which i occasionally sniffed to accomplish staying up all night in a creepy dormroom reading by candlelight and typing and never dating nobody at no time! i love you dr. ed strother. where are you now? what a cute cute person he was and worthy of writing alongside neil simon. those were the days! indeed they were!


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“Roy Sexton is outstanding as Buddy. He has some of the most complex songs exploring the most complex emotions. His takes on ‘The Right Girl’ and ‘Buddy’s Blues’ are vocally strong and emotionally engaging as he conjures up a dialogue with his girlfriend while still yearning for the love of his wife.” Read more: https://pulp.aadl.org/node/399787. Theatre Nova’s Follies in Concert runs ONE more weekend, starting Thursday: http://www.theatrenova.org

“Follies” continues Thursday-Saturday, Nov. 14-16, at 8 pm and Nov. 17 at 2 pm. Theatre Nova, 410 W. Huron St., Ann Arbor. For tickets, call 734-635-8450 or go to theatreNOVA.org.


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Review from EncoreMichigan.com … excerpt:

Follies’ premise – aged alumni of the Weisman (think Ziegfeld) Follies reunite at their derelict theatre to relive their youth and ponder their life choices just before the place is leveled for a parking lot – is challenging to stage for any theater because of the intermingling of time, but Theatre Nova carries it off. …

Dramatic highlights of this show are “Losing My Mind,” a solo performed by Sue Booth, as Sally, and “Live, Laugh, Love” by Thomas Murphy, as Ben, and the ensemble.

Comic highlights are the rollicking “Buddy’s Blues” by Roy Sexton as the sad sack traveling salesman Buddy Plummer, and “I’m Still Here,” performed by Olive Hayden-Moore as Follies veteran Carlotta.

Diane Hill, who directs the play and co-stars as Phyllis Rogers Stone, also performs two of Follies’ funniest songs, “Could I Leave You” and “Lucy and Jessie” with spot-on comic timing.

Follies’ famous mirror number, “Who’s That Woman,” is given nice treatment by Carrie Jay Sayer, as showgirl Stella.

The most effective time-splicing number in the show is probably “Waiting for the Girls Upstairs.”

Eddie Rothermel, Kryssy Becker, Connor Thomas Rhoades, and Annie Kordas do a fine job of portraying Ben and Phyllis, Buddy and Sally in their younger years.

Read the full review here: https://www.encoremichigan.com/2019/1...


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Read about movies and nostalgia, animal issues and sociopolitical concerns all discussed in my book Secrets of an Old Typewriter and its follow-up Misunderstood Gargoyles and Overrated Angels - print and ebook versions of both are available on Amazon (click the title).

The books are also carried by these fine retailers: Ann Arbor's Bookbound and Common Language; Columbia City's Whitley County Historical Museum; and Fort Wayne's The Bookmark.

And you can download from iTunes.

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