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Beth Porter

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New Yorker Beth began acting professionally at age 12, coming to prominence as part of the award-winning LaMaMa Troupe. She was part of the Greenwich Village scene during the culturally-amazing 1960s. With her Scottish husband, she co-founded the Troupe's UK branch, touring throughout Europe. Her successful solo career in films & television includes starring roles in Woody Allen's Love & Death; Tales of the Unexpected; Hitch-hiker's Guide To The Galaxy; and hit series Rock Follies. Acting segued into media journalism as London Editor of Film Journal International; writing fiction & plays; being appointed BBC-TV development executive; & working as exec producer of corporate websites for an international webhouse. Intellect Publishing brought ...more

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	Resident Aliens: Stories of NYC in the 1960s really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2001 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Walking On My Hands: how I learned to take responsibility for my life with the help of Woody Allen, Barbra Streisand, Greta Garbo, Harvey Milk, Idi Amin, Guy the Gorilla, & Frank Sinatra among others 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	The Net Effect 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Drama Queen: Beth Porter's Collection of Scripts & Screenplays 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
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	LOCKS: a quartet of short fiction 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Honouring V.S. Naipul

In honour of the sad & recent death of V.S. Naipul, I've just read his early comic masterpiece The Mystic Masseur. Highly recommended indeed, and perhaps surprisingly it helps to really understand the nature of Jane Austen. Alternating narrative passages in gammatically correct English prose with assured dialogues of the patois and jargon of 2nd and 3rd generation Trinadaians of Indian heritage, N Read more of this blog post »

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Published on August 15, 2018 10:55

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“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that 'my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”
― Isaac Asimov

tags: anti-intellectualism, cult, culture, democracy, ignorance, intellectual, political, politics, united-states, willful-ignorance

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