Holy Grail

The Holy Grail of twin souls playing out on the planet……
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As Kirk Douglas emerges as a hundred year  old “star”, we are aghast as mother and daughter cast as Burbank’s Debby Reynolds and her Princess Leisa daughter with Eddie Fisher,(“Star Wars”)
Our own yesterdays into post WW2 and Korean turbulence and the advent of television, that “The Singing in the rain”, Eddie Cantor’s identification with Eddie Fisher’s troubadoring, 
Carrie Fisher  into the next generation.……
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Is this tragic loss a metaphor for Milton’s “Paradise Lost”?  Dinah Shore, Elizabeth Taylor, into the flow of “Star Wars” heritage of abounding souls losing their magnificent grip on 
 “Paradise Lost” for celluloid archives and  their immortal yesterdays.
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May all our promise on this minor planet be as transcendent.
 “A wonderful start to the New Year.”
December 31, 2016  “Shangri-la”, the City that never sleeps.

Princess Leia passing in Los Angeles at age 60

Princess Leia’s passing in Los Angeles at age 60, has ramifications for all of us mortals, doesn’t it? 
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The loss of Eddie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds’s daughter is a loss for all of us. Growing up in the City of Angels…..”Heavenly” Hills, Hollywood Hills, Brentwood,  Sunland, Sunland-Verrdugo  , Burbank, Santa Monica, Westwood, Pacific Palisades, Hollywood, Canoga Park, Reseda, Venice, Van Nuys, North Hollywood  wherever her grasp on her unconscious took her.
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George Lucas, her producer on the “Star Wars” money grossing epic (he acknowledged using our own
student names in our pursuit of happiness, subbing in the City of Los Angeles secondary schools . and  Junior Colleges.
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Our planet weeps whether or not a soccer player from London’s Hyde Park, a baseball sub sitting on the bench at Whittier College like “Tricky Dick Nixon “ sixty six years ago, Charlie Chaplin finding his persona in that Venice-Ocean Park roller rink  seventy seven years ago.
The Warner Brothers ....Harry Jack Sam  out of the Ohio butcher store, capturing Al Jolson singing “The “Jazz Singer”, breaking the Rudolf Valentino silent era absence of “technology”.
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  Carrie Fisher’s big soul of humanity in her dialogue, her role as the teenager, her pretending ss an actress an author, an addict searching for Shangri-la,  in what was once calibrated as “Lost horizon”                                                                       
Until Carrie Fisher t age 19, found herself as Princess Leia in “Star Wars”.
December 28, 2016 The City that never sleeps….”Shangri=la”


The transition…..Midwood’s Brooklyn High School

The transition…..Midwood’s Brooklyn High School on Bedford Avenue……University of California at Los Angeles…1945


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‘To our fellow classmates, remembering all our teachers in their class rooms… And God’
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How the curriculum of English History Political Science Physical Education….calisthenics, volleyball, baseball,rugby..kick ball, somersaults , basketball, swimming (minor, Dave Minor) Astronomy, Air ROTC (Colonel Bing), Atomic Physics (Dr. Banos)  Philosophy(Dr. Kaplan),  Political Geography .(Dr. Kostanek), Friday night dances.
(Subject A remedial English), Daily Bruin scribbling tennis,varsity football scrimmaging.. dining hall)  Psychology Dr. Wenger.                                                                                                                                                                              IV
History (Dr. Graham), Sociology, Politics Dr. Charles Titus his Legislature and Legislation, Anglo American Legal System, Dr. Grant, his Business and Government….*Dr. Frederic Woelner’s“Education as the Shangri la, the Utopia…to eliminate war poverty and disease.”
*“Merry Christmas”, December 25, 2016










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