Movies are an amazing Merlin’s World where anything is possible – you can sail on the Titanic, fly to other planets, or run for your life from Tyrannosaurs Rex. I have been entranced since I saw my first film. I was four and in those days, a live band would play as part of the show. I slept through the band’s performance while my big brother, Bill, was thrilled. Then the movie came on; I woke up and never forgot what I saw. (Bill went to sleep as soon as the lights went down.)

The scene I remember was someone falling out of a trailer into a puddle of mud. It was thirty years later when I was watching a Lucille Ball and Desi Arnez movie called, "The Long, Long Trailer", when I saw the scene again and realized that was the first movie I had ever scene.  (It finally came out on DVD.)

Since then, one of my favorite movie theater memories is watching the mother ship come over Devil's Mount in "Close Encounters" and listening to the whole audience go, "Ooh, Ah".  We've gotten pretty jaded since then with the computers now doing movie magic, but there are times when it really is a magical experience.

Since then I have read dozens of books about movies and their creators, watched hundreds of films, and am still entranced. I never get tired of sitting in the darkened theater, munching on popcorn, and anticipating seeing the greatest movie that was ever made.