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Martin Grams

Martin Grams

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Author of more than 20 books about old-time radio, retro television and vintage movies.

A Shadow in Yucatan

A Shadow in Yucatan

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<p>A mythical jewel of a story… A true story told on a beach in Yucatan, A Shadow tells Stephanie's story but it was also the story of the golden time. Its nostalgia sings like cicadas in the heat.</p><p>An American ‘Under Milkwood’, this distilled novel of the Sixties evokes the sounds, music and optimism on the free-wheelin streets and parks of Coconut Grove. You can hear Bob Dylan still strumming acoustic; smoke a joint with Fred Neil; and Everybody’s Talkin is carried on the wind.</p><p>Stephanie, a young hairdresser living in lodgings finds herself pregnant. Refused help from her hard Catholic mother in New York, unable to abort her baby, she accepts the kindness of Miriam, her Jewish landlady, whose own barren life spills into compassionate assistance for the daughter she never had.</p><p>The poignancy of its ending, its generosity and acceptance, echoes the bitter disappointment of those of us who hoped for so much more, but who remember its joy, and its promise, as though untarnished by time.</p>

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<div align="justify"><font class="size12 Helvetica12" color="#000066" face="Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif"><strong><em>&quot;With a big-screen Green Hornet due in January, it’s time to look back and learn more about this masked hero and his colorful history in a variety of media. Grams and Salmonson, whose work is well known to old-time radio buffs, have dug deep and created a hefty paperbound book that one would have to call definitive. More than half of its pages are devoted to a detailed radio and TV episode guide. I don’t know what the new movie with Seth Rogen will be like, but I know that there is something magnetic about the idea of the Green Hornet and his trusty servant Kato; this book will tell you all you want or need to know about how he came to be and flourished for so many years.&quot;</em></strong><br /></font></div><span class="size12 Helvetica12" style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><strong><img src="http://oldtimeradiotapes.homestead.com/tp.gif" alt="" class="lpxtab" border="0" width="30" /><img src="http://oldtimeradiotapes.homestead.com/tp.gif" alt="" class="lpxtab" border="0" width="30" /><img src="http://oldtimeradiotapes.homestead.com/tp.gif" alt="" class="lpxtab" border="0" width="30" /><img src="http://oldtimeradiotapes.homestead.com/tp.gif" alt="" class="lpxtab" border="0" width="30" /><img src="http://oldtimeradiotapes.homestead.com/tp.gif" alt="" class="lpxtab" border="0" width="30" />-- Leonard Maltin, </strong></span><span class="size12 Helvetica12" style="font-family:Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;"><strong><em>Movie Crazy</em></strong></span>