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Desert War
Killing Rommel by Steven Pressfield, a good book but not on the epic scale of his Gates of Fire (about the battle of Thermopylae ... sort of a serious and vastly more emotional version of "300.") and the film Five Graves to Cairo ... Eric Von Stroheim as Rommel, what more could you want? The...- MikeKardec
- Post #29
- Forum: WWII
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Radio Drama
Webb was great, so "same sh-- different day." Many actors try to play every moment like it's exceptional, writers too. I do it all the time. That show had the attitude of of real police work with real attitudes toward it. James Ellroy's stuff is vastly more dramatic, operatic even, but I...- MikeKardec
- Post #6
- Forum: Radio
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Radio Drama
I think some of it was just the difference in acting styles the performing arts was working through at the time. Close up oriented "movie acting" versus play to the back row "theater acting." Today it is hard to find an unnaturally "big" performance on Broadway ... even in a big theater. In...- MikeKardec
- Post #3
- Forum: Radio
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Unique or Creepy? - The story of a "red" dress
I remember a number of years ago a fried of my family's who had a trading post on the Navajo reservation took in a huge Germantown rug (the best yarn dies for Indian rugs came from Germantown Penn.). It was in amazing condition, having been woven in the 1920s or so. Eye searing red with a...- MikeKardec
- Post #14
- Forum: WWII
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conquering writer's block
I can't say what will work for you but coming from a line of productive writers, here's the formula that I have seen work and what, professionally, works for me ... when I'm smart enough to follow it. My betters have shown me the way no matter how remiss I am at following their example. Butt...- MikeKardec
- Post #30
- Forum: The Reading Room
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French claim that Lindbergh was NOT first to fly across the Atlantic
Nungesser was a REAL character. Lots of strange stories about him. Many crashes, knocked the landing gear off his Neuport in a dogfight during WWI and belly flopped the stubs through the upper wing of a German plane and forced the German to land them both. Jumped from a damaged aircraft and...- MikeKardec
- Post #13
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Riding aboard trains during the Late Days of World War Two
I believe hotels were still operating under the "3 day rule" (you couldn't stay more then three days) because returning servicemen used them as apartments and there was no space for the men still pouring into the port cities ... not a train thing but it would impact a traveler heavily. Luggage...- MikeKardec
- Post #10
- Forum: The Golden Era
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'War Plan Red' : America's plan to take on Great Britain
It was a strange time, lot's of tension in the world yet no clear indication who was going to end up on what side or when. By the end of the decade Finland was fighting the USSR, Germany and Russia would be allied and abusing Poland together, England was wooing Italy as a bulwark against...- MikeKardec
- Post #21
- Forum: The Golden Era
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Radio Drama
I know it's a book and not something on the air but if you are into this stuff, Two O'Clock, Eastern War Time by John Dunning has some great material in it about creating radio dramas. It's a hard boiled mystery novel but a lot of the action is set around a New Jersey radio station. It's...- MikeKardec
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