September 2019

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*contains spoilers Playwright and occasional screenwriter Arthur Miller (1915-2005 bladder cancer) was, of course, married for several years to troubled actress Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962 sleeping pill overdose). He tried to save her but she either didn’t want to, or was unable to, save herself. He wrote the classic plays Death of a Salesman and The…

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*contains spoilers Name: MikeAge: 76 Occupation: Retired Executive Favourite Movie: Last of the Mohicans (1992) Starring: Daniel Day-Lewis, Madeleine Stowe, Wes Studi, and Jodhi May First Saw it: At one of the large theatres in Leicester Square in London when it was first released. Plot: Sweeping fiction and love story set against the backdrop of…

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