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Moira MacDonald

Tales to help ‘Downton’ fans muddle through another dry spell

Last updated Saturday, February 16, 2013 - 11:26pm

As we prepare for another long “Downton Abbey” dry spell (the final Season 3 episode will air today), some of us will be looking for something Downton-ish to read. I sampled four current novels, all of which name-checked “Downton Abbey” on their covers. Alas, no character came close to the Dowager Countess, and in general there wasn’t nearly enough below-stairs scheming, but each offered pleasures of their own.

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Myrna Loy: Hollywood’s ‘good girl’

Moira MacDonald The Seattle Times

Last updated Sunday, August 19, 2012 - 12:06am

Actress Myrna Loy, best known for her enchanting chemistry with William Powell in the “Thin Man” movies of the ’30s and ’40s, died in 1993 at the age of 88. Though her life was remarkable, both from her years in early Hollywood and her personal history of political activism, it took nearly 20 years after her death for a biography of her to be published — because, it seems, she didn’t want one.

“She was such a private person,” said Emily W. Leider, author of the biography “Myrna Loy: The Only Good Girl in Hollywood” (University of California Press).

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