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Lies My Father Told Me

Back in 1975 my father, Ted Allan, gave me his script for the movie, Lies My Father told Me, and asked me if I thought I could novelise it.  I did, and I did (and I’ll tell you more, if you ask).
While it was in print, it was taught in high school English courses!
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Willie the Squowse

I have just posted my father’s children’s story, Willie the Squowse, on line. It is wonderful. Do have a look.

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My father used to say that Norman Bethune was the most exciting person that he every new (as  an introduction to discussing Bethune). My father, Ted Allan, was the most exciting person that I ever knew…
I have posted 13 chapters of a (20 chapter) biography… and more are coming.
The first chapter, (The Pen as Sword:
Ted [...]

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new videos

and I’ve posted a few new videos
The Seven Laws of Drama

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no downtown: a poem
the baby with the bathwater: a poem

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please write to me at normanallandr@yahoo.ca

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Ted Allan

I’ve now posted chapters five and six of my biography of Ted

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the video

 
 
 
 
the text:
My Leonard Cohen Story: The Bourgeois Blues

This concerns Lee Harper’s amazing first poetic outpouring, which my father sent to Leonard Cohen. Lee was, and is, beautiful, so Ted enclosed a “head shot”.
    A few days later Ted said to me, “You write poetry,” and then something like, “Wow! Your good. You’re really good*,” [...]

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