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NOTE: Apparently this webpage has some glitches. It tends to randomly switch out visual material.  Why?  Don't ask me.  So, if a pic doesn't match the text...it doesn't!  Rest assured I am trying to amend this problem.  When I get around to it.

*(may contain misuse of apostrophes, miss spellings, overabundance of semi-colons,  wrong word usage, etc.
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AND YET ANOTHER NOTE:
The visual switcheroos on these blogs have reached a point where there's no way I can correct them all, so I'm just going to leave them be.  If they don't match the text, just think of them as whimsical funsies decorating the text.  I will continue to supply pictures; but I cannot guarantee their context: much like my mind.
Thank you for your patience!

A FURTHER NOTE:
I try to keep this website relatively free of anything truly morally reprehensible or obscene.  However, in the pursuit of honesty; I will be quite frank about sexuality; as I feel one should be.  To  wit: this website is not for children.  It is decidedly "adult"; although not necessarily not "childish."  I do not feel it is suitable, in some instances, for anyone below the age of 17.  Or maybe a very mature 16...or 15 even.  
THIS WEBSITE IS RATED: PG-15

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Synchronicities (Or It's All Connected, Isn't It?)

6/9/2022

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So this one works either backwards or forwards; but I'm gonna do it backwards.
Remember the opening of Falco's "Rock Me Amadeus"?
When reading this, I ask you to hear it in the voice of the narrator from the song.  That's how seriously I want you to take it.
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In 2015 I self-published my first novel: 83 In the Shade.
In 1973, Thomas McGuane published Ninety-two in the Shade.
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Ninety-Two in the Shade was made into a movie in 1975.  It was directed by Thomas McGuane.  It starred Peter Fonda, Warren Oates and Margot Kidder.  Kidder and McGuane became romantically involved and had a daughter.
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My favorite TV show in the late 70's was Soap.  One of its stars was Jennifer Salt, daughter of Waldo Salt, legendary screenwriter.
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One of my all time favorite movies is 1978's Superman where I and the rest of the world fell in love with Margot Kidder as Lois Lane.
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In the early 90's I found myself living in Los Angeles.  Through a friend in "the industry" I found myself at Greenblatt's Deli on Sunset, having a post-screening nosh with Margot and Jennifer, who, it turned out, were besties from back in the day.  They paid for dinner.  Thanks ladies! (I forget what the screening was).
Now, when I was trying to come up with the title for my book in 2015, I had never read or seen the movie version of Ninety-Two in the Shade.  But I must've come across it somewhere and it lodged in my brain.  So thank you, Mr. McGuane.
Margot and Jennifer were the stars of Sisters, Brian De Palma's first commercially successful film.
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It was Brian De Palma who really piqued my interest in "the cinema."  Particularly Carrie which I first saw on network TV.  I was mesmerized by it.  And then I started watching his movies: the ones from the late 70's through the early 80's; which I consider his "golden" period.  Obsession, Carrie, The Fury, Dressed to Kill and Blow Out.  Even Body Double. (I can't stand Scarface!).
And it was De Palma who put John Travolta in his first hit movie: Carrie.
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And it was when John Travolta posed for the cover of Rolling Stone to promote Staying Alive, in 1983, that I found myself trekking to the local bookstore with someone I barely knew because he wanted to buy the magazine to oggle John.
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And it was that event that inspired me to write my first novel.
So now I've written a sitcom pilot and one of the characters is a commercial airline pilot.  And John is licensed to fly a 737...just saying...
It's all connected.
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CFR 6/11/22
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    Christopher Reidy is from the Boston area.  He attended Boston University where he studied TV and film which eventually led him to Los Angeles.  There he did the Hollywood thing (which he wasn’t particularly good at) and eventually met his partner Joseph.  He was one of the co-founders of the short lived Off Hollywood Theatre Company which staged several of his original plays.  83 In the Shade is his first novel.  He also dabbles in screenplays, toys with short stories, and flirts with poetry.  Life brought him to bucolic Southwest Virginia where he now resides and is very active in community theatre. It may interest you to know Chris is officially an Irish citizen as well as an American. He also enjoys drawing and painting and looking after a passel of 
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