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- 1 2 " Home Movies/Softly Consider the Nearness Listing" Archived 2014-08-12 at the Wayback Machine Internet Off-Broadway Database Listing, accessed July 4, 2012
- ↑ Tallmer, Jerry. "Obituries.Al Carmines, 69, creative genius of Judson Church", thevillager.com, Volume 75, Number 13 | August 17–23, 2005
- ↑ "Plays Produced in the Provincetown Playhouse in 1960s Chronological", ProvincetownPlayhouse.com, accessed July 4, 2012
- ↑ Bean, Orson (14 Jun 1964). "Bean is an expert on oddities". The Philadelphia Inquirer. Retrieved 5 May 2020.
- ↑ Friedman, David (16 Jun 1964). "'Home Movies' Should Have Stayed Home". Asbury Park Evening Press.