Michael Pertwee News Today

(1) WRITERS WHO SPEAK AT THE CIA. From Brian Keene I heard about this article: Johannes Lichtman tells about attending “Invisible Ink: At the CIA’s Creative Writing Group” in The Paris Review. After he gives his presentation, they take him to lunch. … I had a little time to kill before our lunch reservation—seating time

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Sammy Davis Jr. and Peter Lawford camp up their too cool for school 60s spy hipsters personas for Richard Donner and Jerry Lewis comedies Salt and Pepper and One More Time.

TV schedules are littered with series that were here today and gone tomorrow. Here we feature selection of such ill-fated television near misses from the past

Died: March 30, 2021 MYRA Frances, who has died of cancer aged 78, was an actress who became a taboo-busting pioneer when she shared British television’s first romantic kiss between women. That was in Girl (1974), James Robson’s play for BBC Birmingham’s Second City Firsts series of short standalone dramas by relatively new writers. Frances played Christine Harvey, the seemingly stern army corporal who appears opposite Alison Steadman’s discharged pregnant squaddie, Jackie. As J...