Acknowledgements

I have two people to thank for making this blog a reality:

1) my mother, who instilled in us Palmer kids in Pampa a deep love for movies--especially the movies of old Hollywood's Golden Age--by regaling us with stories of the stars and the films she saw in her youth;

and

2) twenty-year friend Lewie Jost, for graciously loaning me the computer equipment and internet access that I never would have paid for myself. And now that I have his cool DELL laptop, I can take it to Starbuck's, sit there all day (hoping somebody asks what I'm doing), and blog like a real professional! Thanks, Lewie!