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Depp v Heard: Mental Health on Trial

I have been glued to the Depp v Heard trial, because one of my interests, as a writer, is celebrity weirdness, deviance, and criminality…

5 min readMay 25, 2022

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WRITERS ON THE SCREEN — Get that dead guy out of the swimming pool!

I used to think the movie Sunset Boulevard was about the perils of Hollywood embodied in the delusional ex- silent film star Norma Desmond…

6 min readJan 25, 2022

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WRITERS ON THE SCREEN — Get that dead guy out of the swimming pool!

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(Some of) The Best Snow Movies

It’s winter and in the Mid-Atlantic States the winters are getting warmer and wetter. If you’re missing the white and frosty stuff, here …

3 min readDec 27, 2021

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(Some of) The Best Snow Movies

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HIGH FOOD PRICES.

The lies we are being fed.

3 min readFeb 29, 2024

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HIGH FOOD PRICES.

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Mharlyn Merritt

THE APPLE STORE IS A TOTALLY UNCOOL RELIC OF THE PAST

Way back in the late 1990’s when the legendary Steve Jobs started efforts to revamp and improve the retail experience of Apple customers…

3 min readJul 18, 2022

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THE APPLE STORE IS A TOTALLY UNCOOL RELIC OF THE PAST

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Hey! Prime Video. Can you just get a little tighter?

Amazon Prime Video is the second most popular streaming service after Netflix. I’ve been a loyal Prime Video member for over a decade…

3 min readJun 22, 2022

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Hey! Prime Video. Can you just get a little tighter?

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Mharlyn Merritt

Happy Father’s Day, Pop Pop

Raleigh Howard Merritt was born in 1896 in New Orleans, Louisiana although he would always cite his birth year as 1898. He was fifty-four…

2 min readJun 19, 2022

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Happy Father’s Day, Pop Pop

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Mharlyn Merritt

The trouble with RESPECT

Jennifer Hudson is great in a movie that could have been…

4 min readJun 13, 2022

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The trouble with RESPECT

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My brother has been in prison for 46 years.

I am the oldest of five children and the only female. My eldest and youngest brothers are still alive and thriving. My third brother died…

6 min readJun 10, 2022

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My brother has been in prison for 46 years.

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Glory Hope and Promise: A Soldier’s Story

In honor of the good men and women who have suffered death and life altering injuries in the service of their country, I dedicate this…

2 min readMay 28, 2022

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Glory Hope and Promise: A Soldier’s Story

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Mharlyn Merritt

Mharlyn Merritt

I write about Film Noir, mid 2oth Century film/writers/ literature and popular culture, as well as, anything that happens to pop into my mind.

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