just a few years back, and while doing a little research on the movie I read up on the book, and it seemed like up until not that long ago they weren’t REALLY sure who wrote that book.

Beverly Cleary died a few years ago and lived to be 105, but I think we already talked about that because I had noted that her book Fifteen, which is from the friggin’ 1950s, kept getting re-issued with new book covers that seemed less and less like they were for a book from the 1950s. Don’t ask me why I did this. Probably my Asperger’s acting up again.

Linda Lavin I know little about, except that of course Simpsons made a classic joke about her