Leonard Maltin Reviewed And ... Action! Today

Leave meeting early and to Luci Curci for monthly blood draw. Home and check e-mail and news sites. Work on Satan's 7 for a bit. Beth by for minute. Sit down for lunch and watch part of first episode of John Adams which I recorded over the weekend. Going to be a good show. To office for minute. Call from Darwyn in Leonard Maltin's office advising me that LM has reviewed And ... Action! - she sends link to me. Here is Maltin's review:
AND...ACTION by Stephen Lodge (Mirage Books) — I’m normally leery of self-published books, but here’s a happy exception to that rule. Lodge was lucky enough to be in the right place at the right time: as a child of the first television generation, he was hooked on the cowboy movies that played incessantly in those early days of broadcasting and in 1951 his mother arranged to take him and his brother to the set of a Monogram Pictures western starring Johnny Mack Brown. The location was Iverson’s Ranch, and it would be the first of many such visits for the lucky youngster. We’re lucky too, because a) Lodge has excellent recall of his childhood encounters with stars, stuntmen, and crew members and b) his mother took along her Brownie camera so we have a wonderful scrapbook of photographic memories.
In time, Lodge got to play bit parts in a handful of TV shows, and wound up working as a costumer in the late 1960s and 1970s. Even when he went to work professionally at CBS Studio Center (the former Republic Pictures lot), or on location in Old Tucson, Arizona, he never lost his boyhood enthusiasm for westerns and the people who made them. That’s what makes this book such an enjoyable read.
If you’d like to put yourself in the place of a young fan getting to meet Roy Rogers, Gene Autry, Guy Madison, Andy Devine, and other such heroes, I think you’ll have as much fun as I did with this charming and unpretentious book
Call Beth. Down for nap. Up and feed girls. Open mail. To office and send out announcement to all re Maltin's review. Package two book orders for tomorrow's mail. Beth home and we eat. She on phone for a while and I read e-mail replies to the review. Later ~