... did you think I was gonna write about anything else today?
Story time, boys and girls! I guess I should set the stage, though, huh? Okay… In 1977, I was eleven years old. Thanks to a wonderful elementary school librarian, Ms. Elizabeth Matthews, I was at the beginnings of my love affair with movies. She had noticed that I was blazing through the usual books at our school library and brought me some of her personal collection of books. One of them was a huge thick volume called Warner Brothers Presents . It was a history of the Warner Brothers studios and was full of details of the Warner Brothers output from their founding until 1974, when it was published. And man, did I study that book. I read every word to the point of memorization. I studied every photo of Cagney and Bogart, Bette Davis and Joan Crawford, Cary Grant and Errol Flynn, Gary Cooper and John Wayne. I kept that book until I got my own copy for Christmas, and it became a mainstay of my reading. From there, I had to know more about Universal Studios, MGM, RKO Radio Pic...
