Posted in Ted Allan, books, this blog, what I do on Apr 14th, 2010
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 [...]
Posted in Ted Allan, poetry, the seven laws of..., theatre on Jul 10th, 2009
and I’ve posted a few new videos
The Seven Laws of Drama
and
no downtown: a poem
the baby with the bathwater: a poem
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I’ve now posted chapters five and six of my biography of Ted
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Posted in Drama, Ted Allan, humor, moans, poetry, stories, trivia, videos on Nov 9th, 2008
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*,” [...]
Posted in Drama, Ted Allan, psychology on Aug 12th, 2008
In Ted Allan, my father: part two, I talk about his history with his sister Sadie, which he wrote as a play, I’ve Seen You Cut Lemons, directed by Sean Connery, which he and Jiohn Cassavetes later adapted as the play and film, Love Streams. I also talk about Leonard Cohen and the Bourgeois [...]
part one of a videoof me, Norman Allan, talking avbout my father, Ted Allan, and Norman Bethune, and The Spanish Civil War, and Hemmingway, and Gerda Taro.
you can also find films of other matters on my video page
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