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Cecile DeFrance, female star of “Hereafter” and me, after the Chicago premiere of Clint Eastwood’s new film.
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With John C. Reilly at the Chicago Film Festival.
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William F. Nolan & Connie Wilson. Austin, Texas, Horror Writers Conference.
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Connie Wilson & Deidre Sommerville with the Silver Feather Award.
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Author Jane Smiley, winner of the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for her Novel “1,000 Acres” and me at lunch in Honolulu at Spellbinders Conference.
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Antonio Villaraigosa, the Mayor of Los Angeles since 2005 and Chairman of the Democratic Party.
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A few seconds before this was taken, Dennis Massoud cautioned me about touching the sand on the sides of the “chair.” Quantas Airlines sand sculpture in Sydney, Australia
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Book signing in Australia.
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Craig and I at a restaurant in Darling Harbour with our friends Don and Cath Zartarian.
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Four-year-old twin granddaughters Elise (left) and Ava (right) Wilson, to whom the book is dedicated. (They’ll be helping me write them, from now on.)
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With Harry Connick, Jr., backstage at the Chicago Theater on my birthday.
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Illinois Women’s Press Association Silver Feather Award (2nd win in 3 years).
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With Rob Reiner in Chicago at the Icon Theater on June 18, 2014 preview of new film “And So It Goes.”
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With Liv Ullman.
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With New York Times Best-selling author Jon Land.
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Rolling Stones, July 23, with the daughter, down front.
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Haskell Wexler and me, May 22, 2012, Grant Park, Chicago
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Jerry O’Heir (Lenny in “Middle Man” and Jerry Gergich on “Parks & Recreation”) at the Chicago Film Festival.
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At Lake Okoboji, less than one week from delivering daughter Stacey in 1987.
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(Left to Right) Scott Beck, Connie Wilson and Bryan Woods at SXSW (Austin, TX) on March 10, 2018.
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Opening Night of the Windy City Film Festival in Chicago, as a Screenplay Finalist.
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(l to r), Connie Wilson, Patrick of the omnipresent hat, and Meiling Jin, CEO of Studio Meiling Productions, LLC.
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San Antonio Film Festival.
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Belmont Town Hall Press Room at the Belmont Town Hall Meeting, 2008, Nashville, Tennessee, 2008.
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Minneapolis, Minnesota. (Yes, I go all the way back to Lincoln), Too bad his beard is falling off!
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Press, inside of the Pepsi Center in Denver, Colorado at the DNC in 2008.
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New Year’s Eve in New York City’s Times Square.
Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, California. (And isn’t that Johnny Depp on the left?)
Hawaii Spellbinders’ Conference.
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Elise (L) and Ava (R) at the Centuries & Sleuths Bookstore in Chicago.
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Midwest Writing Center Writer of the Year Award.
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Scott, Mom and Stacey,