But for me personally, I love movies before color came in and feel like every time Turner Classic Movies puts on a color film, I always have to--then I start to looking at the other channels and see if anybody else has something.
For him someone who "didn't catch a ride on the last train of that decade" it was a time when serious writers had mass appeal, an era beforelove stories and martial arts fiction dominated popular culture.
It seemed only a matter of timebefore some firebreathing demagogue with scant knowledge of economics, scant love of democracy and scant understanding of the world beyond Slavdom would be ensconced in the Kremlin.
But her book also tells a more universal story - of a mother's love and a mother's loss, and a tribute to a young life that was cut short before its time.