Category: Memoir/Biography
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The cancer didn’t get me. Sobriety did.
This is a story of celebrated Oscar winners and legendary international Broadway and opera directors — my teachers and mentors. It is also a story of spiritual survival – from the bitter dregs of alcoholism and growing up gay in the 1950s. This is also a story about spiritual growth and gay sexual identity, intertwined…
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Three Mass Murders, Two Book Releases
I cannot help but comment on the recent mass shootings that took place in California. That they are tragic and appalling seems obvious. That the massacre in Monterey Park occurred at the beginning of the Chinese New Year appears ironic and disheartening. Contrast the Shakespearean horror of 11 dead, and others hospitalized with gunshot injuries,…
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At Long Last, A New Edition
“This was the climate when I first knew that I was attracted to men. It was simply unsafe to be a gay man who was ‘out’ in the world. It still is, to some degree – witness the Colorado Springs mass shooting and murder of five and wounding of 29 in a Gay bar. Couple…
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New Material Added To Memoir
And so into the fray – it’s Christmas. And New Year’s, too! Good reading ahead! My friend, Martin Wiech, posts a magnet on his auto that reads “Put Christ back into Christmas,” and I agree. While I do not drive much myself, I put my magnet on the fridge as a daily reminder. But we…
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Trees Fall — Hope for a Bright Future With Them
Word has it that the ax is coming very soon to the 26 trees planted in the beautiful gardens of The Montecito, that Art Deco local and national registered historic landmark apartment building where Hollywood “greats” once lived, between Las Palmas and Cherokee. In their place, a six-story apartment building will rise over the next…
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Favorable Review from Abroad Revisited
Worth reading 😎 Know David Kearse, actor, screenwriter, and journalist, from this personally written memoir SYNOPSIS Having survived alcohol addiction and been in recovery for 52 years, this writer studied with some of the greatest names in entertainment. He shares what he learned about it in “his long life.” He began in journalism on…
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Favorable Review from Abroad
Worth reading 😎 Know David Kearse, actor, screenwriter, and journalist, from this personally written memoir SYNOPSIS Having survived alcohol addiction and been in recovery for 52 years, this writer studied with some of the greatest names in entertainment. He shares what he learned about it in “his long life.” He began in journalism on…
By David Kearse 