Preston Sturges

Tag Area: Real-World Character
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The Miracle of Ivar Avenue

  • by John Kessel
  • in Intersections: The Sycamore Hill Antholgy , edited by John Kessel et al., January 1996

In 1949 Los Angeles, Detective Lee Kinlaw has writer/director Preston Sturges down in the morgue. The only problem is that Sturges is still alive and well in Hollywood. —Michael Main
It’s a transmogrifier. A device that can change anyone into anyone else. I can change General MacArthur into President Truman, Shirley Temple into Marilyn Monroe.
Three patterned rectangles sit below the title of the Intersections anthology.
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