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March 2025

It Is Not The Ides of March

Historians tell us that “The Ides of March” is generally accepted to be March 15th, the Roman calendar day on which Julius Caesar was stabbed to death. My “Ides of March” did not exactly fall on the 15th. However, by that date, I was resigned to the cold, hard facts of the Los Angeles fires. Specifically, the Palisades Fire struck me like a bolt of lightning. 

My movie endeavors began at a private party on Mulholland Drive, at a home later to be decimated by the fire. That house, and hundreds of others, put the movie production business in a tailspin. The recovery has been slow but steady. “Color of the Prism” is now moving forward with a target date moved back to late 2025. 

Nevertheless, a recent trip to Tucson offered an opportunity to visit many of the actual sites from my experiences that have been fictionalized in my books, and soon, the movies, “Color of the Prism” and “The Russian: The Roadhouse where the assassins parked their pickup and rode their bicycles onto the Loop Road where the Russian mafioso was killed; the home where Tony met with his grandaunt Muncie, the wife of murdered detective Antonio Castenada; the memorials at the Tucson Police Department; and, many other sites related to my fact-based novels—books too true to be novels. 

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