Born on 28 March 1935 in Cudworth, near Barnsley, Parkinson established himself as a journalist at the Daily Express, where he was a feature writer.

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Sally MagnussonI began my career as a reporter on the Scotsman newspaper in Edinburgh, moving on to the now defunct Sunday Standard in Glasgow as a feature writer.

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So it was providence that after graduating from The Johns Hopkins University, I landed a job as a feature writer at the Baltimore News American, then the Baltimore Sun, where my lifestyle beat included a weekly column about homes and decor in the Sunday Sun Magazine.

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For starters, you have to know that this is the first feature directed by Drew Goddard, a writer from the "Buffy, " "Angel, " "Lost" school, based on a screenplay he co-wrote with the considerably famous "Buffy", "Firefly", "Angel" creator Joss Whedon.

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As for the pretty younger woman, that's where writer-director Scott Cooper's otherwise bull-free first feature, based on a novel by Thomas Cobb, goes soft.

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