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UPDATE/UPDATE/UPDATE/UPDATE -- September 1, 2008: My new book, RELUCTANT WITNESS: ROBERT TAYLOR, HOLLYWOOD, & COMMUNISM is now AVAILABLE . . . 2nd printing, no less!! The book is selling well, I'm so happy to report. This is the manifestation of a long-standing desire to put the life of Golden Era movie star, Robert Taylor, into the public eye. Taylor lived through a fascinating, important part of history, and his life is a lesson in standing up for one's beliefs. He lived during a volatile, political period not unlike today's volatile, political period. The presidential atmosphere of the mid-1940s is today being compared to our current atmosphere. I learned much while researching Robert Taylor. Little has been written about him over the years. He lived a relatively calm public life, at least as compared to more flamboyant fellow actors. Still, he was politically active. It started early on, with his marriage to Barbara Stanwyck, and his deep friendship with undeniably the United State's most famous Hollywood politician, Ronald Reagan. He and Reagan were best friends through to Taylor's death in 1969, and the two men worked together to better the lives of film's working class. They saw, in their collective opinion, a real threat to the American way of life -- Communism -- & it wasn't going to infiltrate the industry on their watch. There are many misconceptions about Bob Taylor & his part in the HUAC hearings. It's time to set the record straight. RELUCTANT WITNESS: ROBERT TAYLOR, HOLLYWOOD, & COMMUNISM will do that. ***************************************** I'm readying to re-vamp my Ryze forum, Hollywood & Politics. The marriage of Tinseltown & the White House has a looooong, very real history. Our politicians have become celebrities in many arenas and in many ways. In researching the movie world's Golden Era, I learned how closely aligned the entertainment industry has been with the politics of the world since the first camera rolled. Let's talk about it. Please visit this forum at: Hollywood & Politics Join in. Let your voice be heard. We are becoming a world more and more attached to our media, and our actors and actresses are as active in the political arena today as they were in Reagan's and Taylor's day. Maybe more so. **************************************************** CONTROVERSY IS THE CORNERSTONE OF WRITERS CAREER How many white black women with lupus publish books on Messianic Jews, porn stars, and novels of good and evil, appear on the Oprah and Sally Jessy Raphael shows, and interview TV and classic film actors? In Linda's world, anything can happen. It does, and she writes about it. A product of mixed race heritage, Linda presents a talk titled Bridging the Color Line. She wrote The White House, Racism in Genealogy, a cover article for the Baton Rouge [Louisiana] Advocate's Sunday Magazine in April, 2000, and had a newspaper column with over 30,000 readers. National credits include celebrity pieces for The Washington Times, Contemporary Christian Musician, and Spotlight Magazine. Public relations efforts include up-and-coming clients in TV and music: Kevin DiSimone, performer/ex-backup for Barry Manilow; Carey Cromelin and William Bell Sullivan, actors, The Guiding Light. Her interviews cover film and TV: Robert Stack, Jim Varney, Peter Coyote, Chad Everett, Michael Cole; soap opera: Michael Zaslow, Linda Dano, others from The Guiding Light and Another World; musicians: Gary Puckett, Lou Christie, Tiny Tim, Dion; and Christian artists: Dallas Holm and Steve Camp. Linda contributed Tales of Love, a chapter on the evolution of love over the first 100 years of film to the international film commemorative, 100 Years of Moving Pictures, (Faircourt International, 11/1995), in addition to a biographical piece on actor Robert Taylor, and interviews with actors Peter Coyote and Jim Varney. Her essay, Linda's Story, appeared in Hitchikers Guide to the Electronic Highway, (Henry Holt & Co. subsidiary, 6/1994), a book by Pamela Kane. A 1991 letter Linda wrote about emotional child abuse made her featured speaker on the Oprah Show. She appeared on The Sally Jessy Raphael Show discussing sexuality in marketing, and Lifetime TV's Attitudes With Linda Dano, talking of contentious female relationships. She sat on a child abuse panel sponsored by [then] Maryland Senator Jean Roesser; represented National Child Rights Alliance in the creation of a national child rights committee; and co-founded a group to save a historic theatre, coordinating a benefit attended by four hundred people, including soap star guests. She organized a celebrity play reading in New York to benefit National Child Rights Alliance. Its success brought about a new play to benefit The Salvation Army Hurricane Relief Fund. Linda co-wrote both, well-received by audience and readersall professional TV soap actors. Linda has been heard on internet radio and West Coast soap opera radio, lectured elementary kids on writing and mixed race genealogy, and been Keynote Speaker and Featured Speaker at Robert Taylor conferences. Her seminars, Reporting On Celebrities: Getting A Great Interview and You Are Who You Think You Are: Creating Your Image have been given to local and national writers. She's a past editor and current member of Washington Romance Writers, Romance Writers of America, Washington Writers Center, and former Montgomery County, Maryland contact for People Against Child Abuse. She also belongs to a number of photography organizations. For information on booking Linda for radio or TV or in print, or other appearances, please contact:
Please also visit my other websites: http://www.lindajalexander.net // http://www.authorsden.com/lindajalexander BLOGGING AT: email: lindaATlindajalexanderDOTnet
I'd like to meet thinking writers and readers, classic film buffs, all people interested in the film world, genealogy addicts, spiritualists, and mixed race individuals . . . just about anyone who thinks a lot. About a lot of things. Please contact me. Let's network, make friends, help each other out. If you're looking for a good book to read, I not-so-humbly offer four such opportunities: Coming SOON to a theatre near you: RELUCTANT WITNESS: Robert Taylor, Hollywood & Communism Myfollowing books, my backlist, are already on the market. Buy from me, or check with your local, or online, bookstore: WEEKENDS IN NEW ENGLAND: a novel of dark, romantic, sexy suspense. UNTIL NEXT TIME: a novel of dark mind-games intermixed with romance, sex, & intrigue. Until Next Time IS BEING RE-WORKED FOR A NEW RELEASE DATE . . . Spring, 2009!! DOROTHY FROM KANSAS MEETS THE WIZARD OF X: an insightful, non-pornographic, no-holds-barred look into the lives of porn stars. Dorothy From Kansas Meets The Wizard of X THE UNPROMISED LAND: a Messianic Jewish couple's struggle to make "aliyah" to Israel under Israel's Law of Return. Believing in Christ as Messiah, their dream became a nightmare. Please visit my home site, my book site, my blogs, and join our forum, Hollywood & Politics! If you've any questions, or just want to talk books, diversity, film, TV, or politics, I'd love to hear from you. Blessings . . . and thanks for visiting. ***************************************** Visit my guestbook, & my friends on Ryze. I will date each addition: January, 2008: Court Jones, visual artist February, 2007: Glorinda Marie, an actress, writer, producer . . . up-&-coming S-T-A-R! Visit her Ryze site: Glorinda Marie & then go on to her professional site:
September, 2006: Marilyn Jenett's "Feel Free To Prosper" network. A delight -- truly enlightened. Her Prosperity Work lessons show how we have so much good to live, if we only open up our hearts & minds. The power of the positive is the essence of Marilyn's lessons based on the "Universal Law of Attraction." Marilyn Jenett's Feel Free To Prosper ***************************************** Sign in to be able to view peachee's guestbook and friends list!
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