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Local author will share tricks for research

Last updated Saturday, March 10, 2012 - 11:32pm

BRIGHAM CITY — A Utah author will speak in Brigham City about the research tricks he has learned from researching the West.

Michael Zimmer, who has published eight novels, will speak 7 p.m. March 20 at Brigham City Library, 26 E. Forest St.

Zimmer will cover a wide range of topics, such as starting a fire with flint and steel and common misconceptions about Old West firearms, with an emphasis on avoiding familiar movie stereotypes.

The author will sign books immediately after the event.

For more information, call the library at 435-723-5850.

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John Rich (right), is pictured with Norman Lear in 1973 when they won an Emmy for outstanding series for "All in the Family." (Los Angeles Times)

John Rich, award-winner director of landmark sitcoms, dies at 86

Dennis McLellan Los Angeles Times

Last updated Monday, January 30, 2012 - 12:44am

LOS ANGELES — As a top television comedy director who won an Emmy directing “The Dick Van Dyke Show” in the early 1960s, John Rich was faced with a tough choice in 1970.

On the same day he received a phone call from Mary Tyler Moore wanting to set up a meeting to discuss his directing the initial episode of her new TV series, he got a call from Norman Lear who wanted to send him a script for a pilot he was about to produce.

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A man and his horse ... 'Rode' draws inspiration from Jimmy Driftwood song

Lisa McClendon McClatchy Newspapers

Last updated Monday, September 26, 2011 - 12:42pm

"RODE." By Thomas Fox Averill. University of New Mexico Press. $24.95.

More than a half-century ago, Jimmy Driftwood wrote a song about a man and his horse, "Tennessee Stud," that told the story of a man's lost love, travels and adventures with the horse, and eventual happy ending with his sweetheart.

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Utah authors release new books

Contributed Standard-Examiner

Last updated Sunday, July 24, 2011 - 7:44am

* Layton author Jennifer Nielsen's new book for young readers is "Elliot and the Pixie Plot" (Sourcebooks, $12.99). The book is due out in August and is the second in Nielsen's The Underworld Chronicles series.

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