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unusual facts about Local Color



George Cherepov

The character of Nicoli Seroff (played by Armin Mueller-Stahl) in the 2006 film Local Color was based on Cherepov and his relationship with the films writer and director George Gallo.


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1941 World Series

Meyer Berger of The New York Times, then its local color reporter, covered the events in "Casey in the Box", a poem derived from the 1888 classic "Casey at the Bat".

A Painted House

A visiting carnival, the annual town picnic, and Luke's introduction to television - to see a live broadcast of a World Series game - are additional bits of local color scattered throughout the tale.

Annie Trumbull Slosson

Slosson is considered a significant author in the "local color" (Regionalism) movement of the late 19th century (Edwin Mellen Press, 2009).