I just watched a clip from an old Dick Cavett show and am thinking how very much I liked the show back in early ‘70s when we lived in base housing on Otis AFB on Cap Cod. The other TV show we watched religiously was The Strange Report with Anthony Quayle as Adam Strange. The latter had been in the can for a couple of years before it aired stateside so there was no chance of it showing for more than one season. I remember the leather Chesterfield couches in Strange’s home and that his girl assistant (Evlyn) was pronounced EVE LYNN.
Saturday, July 18, 2009
Pat Conroy
I’ve reached the age where everything I DO reminds me of something I've already DONE. I just read an excerpt of Pat Conroy’s new book and remember my father regretfully saying . . . about EACH Conroy book he read . . . “I’ve just read the book about that crazy southern family”. It always surprised me, as it did him, that he liked them enough to continue. He read some good stuff but was also a great fan of Zane Grey westerns. I stayed in Zane Grey’s house on Santa Catalina Island with David in the year before David died. Santa Catalina itself was interesting and Grey was a great fisherman.
Reading about Pat Conroy's newest book (after a 14 year hiatus) makes me want to visit Beaufort, SC.
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