During my ABC Network News stint (3 years), I covered major international stories. These included the civil rights movement and the war in Vietnam. While I was in Vietnam in 1967, I met LBJ who revealed he wouldn’t seek re-election… Read More ›
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HEMINGWAY- MAN AND LEGEND – GARRY ARMSTRONG
Hemingway was my first literary hero. He wrote the way people talked. Brief, blunt and brave. I consumed his novels as a teenager the way I would finish off a pizza. I couldn’t put it down. “The Sun Also Rises”… Read More ›
HOLLYWOOD AND MATURE ACTRESSES – GARRY ARMSTRONG
Things are better for mature film actresses now than they were back in Hollywood’s “golden age.” A look the award-winning films of past years include names like Helen Mirren, Meryl Streep, Annette Benning, Viola Davis,, and Charlotte Rampling. All these… Read More ›
JAMES CAGNEY ON A SUMMER AFTERNOON – GARRY ARMSTRONG
This story goes back to the early ’70s. My mind gets a little bit hazy. I always thought I’d remember everything, but it turns out, you forget. So much other stuff happens. Older events get pushed back behind all the… Read More ›
ROADS AND OTHER PATHS – GARRY ARMSTRONG
CWWC: Roads and Other Paths I went out to mail some batteries back to the company who sent them — they didn’t work — and I took the camera with me. Lo and behold, this is the perfect place for… Read More ›
A TRULY BAD, ROTTEN, AWFUL MOVIE AND STILL, I KEPT WATCHING – GARRY ARMSTRONG
By now, everyone knows I love old movies. I take special delight in the early 1930s stuff where you see stars and character actors while they were very young and just establishing their screen personae. Barbara Stanwyck is a particular… Read More ›
MORE WINTER IN THE VALLEY- GARRY ARMSTRONG
Our driveway — even after serious plowing, is still an icy mess. It defrosts just enough during the day to refreeze at night. Especially tomorrow night because that midwestern deep freeze is coming to the valley tomorrow night — with… Read More ›
LOVE IT, HATE IT – IT’S WINTER IN NEW ENGLAND
It’s romantic, or so “they” say. I mean, those same folks write songs about it. Orchestral pieces. In your open carriage dashing through the snow — and freezing your butt off because, hey folks, it’s cold out there! I went… Read More ›
ANOTHER RETURN OF THE GRACKLES
Captions: Garry Armstrong They never entirely left. For a while, there were only a couple of them hanging around. Sometimes, a mob of them would show up and I could see and hear them from anywhere in the house. Once,… Read More ›
MEDICAL UPDATE: MARILYN
By Garry Armstrong Owen and I visited Marilyn this afternoon in the Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at UMass Memorial Hospital in Worcester. Marilyn, via ambulance, has been a “guest” there since Tuesday evening. Marilyn’s health has been failing for more than… Read More ›
BERNIE SCHWARTZ & GARRY
Those of you who are regular visitors to this site know I like to share stories about my encounters with legendary stars from old Hollywood. The shares come from my working days as a TV news reporter. It was a… Read More ›
REEL AND REAL: HATE LIVES ON – GARRY ARMSTRONG
A friend today posted a review on Facebook about the film, “Schindler’s List” which he had just seen for the first time, 32-years after the acclaimed movie’s release. My friend talked about the film’s haunting power, its narrative about one… Read More ›
SERENDIPITY - SEEKING INTELLIGENT LIFE ON EARTH 