Monthly Archives: January 2010

END OF THE TRAIL FOR ROY ROGERS MUSEUM

The Roy Rogers-Dale Evans Museum, a popular tourist attraction in Victorville for more than 35 years, relocated in 2003 to Branson, Mo. A bad move, as it turned out. The museum failed to flourish there, and now it has gone … Continue reading

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AVATAR: $65,000 PER WORD?

A screenwriter friend of mine obtained a copy of James Cameron’s screenplay for the mega-hit movie “Avatar” and shared it with me. It includes the dialogue heard in the movie as well as descriptions of characters, scenes and actions. It’s … Continue reading

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FEEL THE BURNS

I offered a snippet of the poetry of Robert Burns in my column of Jan. 6, 2010, titled “Have a heapin’ helpin’ of haggis.” The column (check it out at http://sbsun.com/johnweeks) offered details about the upcoming Robert Burns Dinner being … Continue reading

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MY CURSE ON THE COLTS

In my column of Dec. 30, 2009, which was headlined “Put these Colts out to pasture,” I raged against football’s Indianapolis Colts, who threw away their virtually assured chance of a rare perfect season by “resting” their starters in the … Continue reading

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