by Mary | Jan 6, 2012 | Just for fun!
The press office of the Russell for President campaign has issued a clarification of Mary Doria Russell’s misstatement yesterday regarding lavender as her favorite color. “Ms. Russell regrets any damage to marriage, religion and the nation that may have...
by Mary | Jan 5, 2012 | Current events, DOC, Just for fun!
Well, my fellow Americans, I got fewer delegates in Iowa than John Huntsman but I am not discouraged, and I am NOT a quitter like Michelle Bachmann, who told everyone that she’s America’s Iron Lady because she read a biography of Margaret Thatcher and...
by Mary | Dec 31, 2011 | Current events, DOC, Just for fun!
Well, not mine, specifically, but she did refer in a sort of general way to my announcement back in July that I intended to form an exploratory committee to help me decide if I should get a reality show and/or be a commentator on radio and TV so I can talk about why I...
by Mary | Dec 1, 2011 | DOC, DOC on HBO, The Sparrow movie
Lots of readers are asking if I’ll be writing any episodes of the HBO series based on Doc. There’s a two-part answer to that question. Part 1: Not a chance. In Hollywood, it is customary to ignore the author of “source material” once the...
by Mary | Nov 22, 2011 | DOC, DOC on HBO, The Cure For Anger
People, I have never kept a secret this long in my life. This has been brewing since June, 2011. Here’s what I heard originally: Ron Howard’s father Rance Howard has a longtime fascination with Doc Holliday. He read Doc when it first came out and took it...
by Mary | Nov 9, 2011 | DOC
There is some controversy about whether John Henry Holliday was born with a cleft palate and lip. As a member of his family, biographer and historian Karen Holliday Tanner had unprecedented access to private family documents and memoirs. To my knowledge, those primary...
