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She came to see “Once Upon a Mattress” so I met her then, but other than that I have not had the opportunity to work with her.

From Los Angeles Times

This year’s ceremony comes nearly five years after a Times investigation rattled the awards’ former presenting organization, the Hollywood Foreign Press Assn., which was effectively dissolved upon the Golden Globes’ conversion in 2023 into a for-profit enterprise.

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My notebooks, every bad poem I’d ever written, my will and my TV show memorabilia were tucked away in an antique trunk beneath the table upon which sat the books I was currently reading.

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I built upon that sole copy until I had every one of his books except for his most recent, “The Last Chairlift.”

From Los Angeles Times

We soon came upon one of those Little Free Libraries book lovers like me build out in front of their homes.

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