“To our someday” the life and times of the Kubrick supermarket delivery
boy six decades ago.
Bartender wet nurse and good humor man under the Avenue J subway.
He tried to make us better.. Ko our mind boggling hangups like a “Champion”
II
His “Paths of Glory” and its motivations drove the same lanes with Fellini,
DeSica,Truffault Rosellini. But did he ever grab Samuel Grafton like he
did Kafka...
Ah that is the question, people peoples.
... III
But his “One eyed Jack” Brando flick into tinsel town was a setback, the two
geniuses never seeing eye to eye.. On the street though, the smart money boys
knew Stanley was Stanislofsky of the Moscow Art theatre in disguise .
“Space Odyssey” proved it, shot on MGM’s Borhamwood studio outside London...,
Who would have known that the former delivery boy would share the same
space with another “hacker” from Wingate.
Three on three biscuit give&goes , a block down from the Avenue J BMT
subway line, his delivery boy bicycle leaning against the market’s
front window...unchained..
IV
“Well .Major Fenton,” said the head honcho, guiding him into the gourmet
beanery “The Culver City money men say your “Mister Novak” high school
chronicle went ballistic on ABC tee vee. .
“Can you duplicate the feel good ? The chauffeured Jaguar is waiting on your
next burp.”
In the meantime Stanley was injecting “Hal”with his soul ..kaputing Alec
North’s score. Straus’s Thus spoke Zarathustra” overwhelming the galaxy
at Culver City...
V
( a flashback in our hour glass of vanquished Time)
Pumping his legs, the delivery boy triumphant at Wingate Field three man
weave, drove his wheels toward Park Slope, a block from the Pavilion movie
house, across from Prospect Park.
VI
His delivery..the Bryna apartments.....the cornerstone of a three floor apartment
house, down away from the Pavilion, a scene for many of Bryna’s son aka Kirk
Douglas... a Schraft waiter& wrestling maven from the college circuit.
A doubles player at the Beverly Hills tennis club.. 1949.
“Who’s there?” asked the actor in futuro, mot knowing that in futuro would
embrace his director .... ”Paths of Glory” “Spartacus”
“ Kubrick’s market.Your delivery boy from under the Avenue J subway.”
The kliegs of Ave J.The passing of director Blake Edwards at 88 of pneumonia..
Cleveland Indian pitcher Bobby Feller of leukemia at 92, his Iowan Field of
Dreams age 15.”.
December 16, 2010
