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Gender	Male
Industry	Museums or Libraries
Occupation	old windbag and scribbler
Location	Fear City, Ca., United States
Introduction	"My name is Addison DeWitt. My native habitat is the theater. In it I toil not, neither do I spin. I am a critic and commentator. I am essential to the theatre - as ants to a picnic, as the boll weevil to a cotton field." George Sanders in "All About Eve" These reviews are from my twenty-two years covering shows at the Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts. There are about 500 in all starting with Whitney Houston in 1993 until the Community News decided not to publish the reviews I wrote in 2015 and 2016. I did not get digital until 2005 that appear here but there were 12 years of reviews in hard copy before that time.. Many shows were magnificent and some hard to get through but there is nothing like hearing music live in a great hall lilke the CCPA
Interests	service to cats, bloodsport native California gardening, slow-pitch softball hitting, song collecting, high-cholesterol cooking
Favorite movies	Chinatown, Godfather, Schindler's List, Saving Private Ryan, Dodsworth, Magnificent Seven, Midnight Cowboy, Iceman Cometh, etc
Favorite music	Folk, singers, cheesy pop, schmaltzy C&W, 50's Jazz, solo piano, Classical, Rock and Roll, Motown, Blues, etc, etc, etc.
Favorite books	"Huckleberry Finn," "A Fan's Notes," Doctorow books, Hemingway's stories, Wisconsin Death Trip, Ethan Frome, Raymond Chandler, Watership Down, Grapes of Wrath, Poe's stories, thousands more.

The squish of mud between your toes; how would you live your life as a frog?

10 to 12 years