Michael's Musings

February 16, 2015

Aside from the fact that there's a review of DON'T LOOK NOW (with Julie Christie and Donald Sutherland) posted a few days ago on the Best Bets on DVD website, accessible via the link in the Introduction section of this page, there's not a lot to report this week.

So, I'll just give you a couple of jokes:

Father Murphy walked into a pub in Donegal, and said to the first man he meets, "Do you want to go to heaven?"
The man said, "I do, Father."
The priest said, "Then leave this pub right now!" and approached a second man. "Do you want to got to heaven?"
"Certainly, Father," was the man's reply.
"Then leave this den of Satan," said the priest, as he walked up to O'Toole.
"Do you want to go to heaven?"
"No, I don't Father," O'Toole replied.
The priest looked him right in the eye, and said, "You mean to tell me that when you die you don't want to go to heaven?"
O'Toole smiled, "Oh, when I die, yes, Father. I thought you were getting a group together to go right now."

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February 9, 2015

On Friday, I rented a movie from Redbox for the first time.  It was an extremely easy process.  I had been renting discs from Netflix, but since the first of the year they'd been having issues with the Post Office, which meant that, over the period of a month, I would get 1/3 to 1/2 less rentals than before.  Not good!

The truth is that there are very few movies these days that I care to rent, so I will probably continue with Redbox; pack and choose the titles I want to see, rather than having to sign up for a month at a time with Netflix.  Also, Redbox seems to get the newer movies a few weeks earlier than Netflix.

Also, although it was not an easy process.  I have now put the ten basic plays in THE HOLLYWOOD LEGENDS collection up for sale on NOOK.  So, if you like to read your books on a electronic device and have chosen NOOK over Kindle, now you can read my plays there, too.

The ten plays are: (Clark) GABLE, (Spencer) TRACY, (Al) JOLSON, (Carole) LOMBARD, (Errol) FLYNN, CLARA BOW, ORSON WELLES, (Maurice) CHEVALIER, NELSON (Eddy) AND JEANETTE (MacDonald) and (Basil) RATHBONE.

Incidentally, for you NOOK folk, BearManor Media has 3 other of my books in that format: MURDER IN BABYLON, DRACULA MEETS JACK THE RIPPER & Other Revisionist Histories and LIFE. LIBERTY & THE PURSUIT OF HOLLYWOOD.  Enjoy!

You have a creative week.

Michael

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February 2, 2015

Yesterday, February 1st, I was a guest on Gregg Hunter's radio show which aired at 9pm (PT) over CRN Talk.com.  Michael Sinclair did the actual interview in which we discussed my new novel (based on fact), MURDER IN BABYLON, which deals with the William Desmond Taylor case, Hollywood's most infamous "officially" unsolved murder.  Interestingly, February 1st was the 95th anniversary of Taylor's murder.

The last time I hit a date like that was with my one-woman play, LOMBARD, which debuted in Burbank on the 50th anniversary of Carole Lombard's death in a plane crash.

Do you rent DVDs or Blu-ray discs from Netflix? 

I sign up for the service every few months, but this past month has been a problem.  It used to be that Netflix would send out your next disc on Monday and you'd get it Tuesday.  During January, the discs would go out on Monday, but I wouldn't get it until Wednesday, which resulted in my getting 1/3 less movies each month.  At the end of the month, the situation got worse.  It's now taking 2 days (instead of one) to return a disc.  That means even fewer discs one will get for their monthly fee.

So, I've just signed up for RedBox.  Truthfully, there are not that many new films that I really care to see, so I figure I'll spend less each month if I just pay for the ones that truly interest me.  Also, it appears that RedBox gets the newest movies a few weeks before Netflix.  In any event, we shall see what happens.

Speaking of movies, there's a new review of IN YOUR EYES on the Best Bets on DVD site, accessible via the link in the Introduction section of this page, so please take a look.

You have a creative week.

Michael

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