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The story of Mary Poppins author Pamela Travers, or P.L. Travers, as told in Saving Mr. Banks (2013), is not only about her reluctance to part with her children’s book Mary Poppins, but about why she wrote it in the first place. In that vein, Saving Mr. Banks shares a lesson about experience. For two…
The challenge
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pveugelaers
A challenge for an author is to sign away film rights to a published work. This tendency is because a writer’s characters are precious and the writer has invested a significant amount of personal pride in a work as a whole. The finished product shouldn’t be tampered with. However, a few authors seem to have…
Bobby Fisher: top of his field
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pveugelaers
DVD movie commentary Bobby Fisher was the world chess champion who broke the Soviet’s stranglehold on the top echelons of the game. But, it could be argued that, Bobby’s rise to the top came at the expense of losing his innocence, the shock of childhood incidents causing him to want to be the best at…
Being alone: the end?
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pveugelaers
You don’t have to be the last person on earth to feel lonely and emotionally distanced from people, but I can imagine what is worse is being the last person on earth or one of a few survivors. Being the last person on earth or one of a few survivors should send shudders. Even so,…
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