Tag: Writing
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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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What Goes Into a Good Review? Revisited.
We hope you enjoyed my recent film review of “All the Old Knives.” Let’s talk about reviews, in general. Having reviewed theater, opera, and film for The Baltimore Morning Sun for ten years (and the Annapolis Evening Capital before that), I hope I learned something about constructing what might be considered a “good review,” or…
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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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Richard Roller — A Renaissance Man and Writer
If things go well for Richard Roller, he and his proposed company of writers could soon hit the national cultural scene. “I love to write!” Richard adds that he also intends to turn his attention to the business aspects of “show business” as he works with a prominent law firm to gain representation for himself…
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All About Improv and Alan Arkin
At the suggestion of a member of my Marketing group, this week I am offering a selection from “Blessed By The Best, A Memoir By David Kearse, Surviving Addiction: A Spiritual Journey.” The book is available on Amazon in audiobook, eBook, hard cover and paperback. It chronicles my life growing up marginalized in the 1950s…
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Politics in Creative Writing
As you may know, there are other colorations to Creative Writing than, in my instance, books and screenplays, that I intend to pursue. You might want to do this, as well. In fact, the United States of America needs us to do this. It was Thomas Paine and the Pamphleteers who famously helped spark The…
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My path to Journalism – You do not have to be a J school grad
I have always been a writer — in spite of what my teachers said. And Johnson O’Connor Human Engineering Laboratories in New York. I was tested in school in the ninth grade and at Johnson O’Connor when I was 14. In both cases I was told I was highly creative — above the norm —…