The Glass Character
Sunday, January 25, 2015

Bye, George

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"Hey! Careful, buddy. Gershwin's in the car." "On July 9, 1937, Gershwin had a seizure and fell into a coma. Su...
Saturday, January 24, 2015

Gene Kelly and Leslie Caron - An American In Paris

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Going with Gershwin, going wherever this Gershwin thing is gonna take me, I'm reminded of one of my fave movie bits: the sensuo...

Who the hell is Mortdecai (and why?)

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You know, folks, it's rare that I see a movie with the kind of reviews this one got (see excerpts from Rotten Tomatoes, below). Ap...

Oscar Levant: Rhapsody in Black

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Since my enthusiasm so often runs ahead of my knowledge, I'm writing this in advance of knowing anything about my subject. Or ...
Friday, January 23, 2015

The Gershwin cartoon: it's here! It's very clear!

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I was gobsmacked to find this. I went on YouTube and searched under "Gershwin cartoons", knowing such an absurd thing could n...

Go, men. . . go Munsingwear!

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These are some choice cuts from the Munsingwear cartoon-style ads I love so ...
Thursday, January 22, 2015

Paco is ten weeks old!

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Wednesday, January 21, 2015

Up in smoke: what happened to George Gershwin?

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George #1: dredged out of rare archival footage, in turn dredged up by documentarians. Here we see the godlike, melancholy Gershwin...
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Margaret Gunning
Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
Welcome to Margaret Gunning's blog: a tribute to the strangeness of the ordinary. Ms.Gunning is the author of The Glass Character (Thistledown Press), her paean/tribute to the brilliant silent screen comic Harold Lloyd. Researching and writing this novel celebrating Harold's legacy and legend was by far the most compelling (and fun!) experience in her long and varied writer's life. The novel is available on Amazon and Kindle, Thistledown Press, and other major book sites. Her previous novels, Better than Life (NeWestPress) and Mallory (Turnstone Press) explore her lifelong fascination with family secrets, alienation, and the surprising joys of the ordinary. She has also written hundreds of book reviews (Montreal Gazette, Vancouver Sun, Toronto Globe and Mail) and newspaper columns for small-town papers across the country. Her philosophy: "Everything that happens is happening for the first time."
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