Of all those political scientists in your UCLA undergraduate yearnings

"Of all those political scientists in your UCLA undergraduate yearnings, they chose
not Professor Charles Titus nor Dr J. A. C. Grant to be their point guard, Cutrting the ribbon at their U/C Riverside branch....Dean McHeanry was the department’s unanimous choice.
How could they snub a Phi Beta Kappa colleague, surviving World War2 ,a distinguished presence on and off campus so much so he then went to Santa Cruz , cutting the ribbon there. .....metamorphosing as a star in the scissors galaxy of deterninism from its start up base at Beckeley .....subsequently Ralph Bunche, a Bruin, became Howard Univcersity Professor...into the United Natrions Secretariat... the Count Bernadette assassination, Nobel Peace Lauriate.

II

"You thought they scrubbed you.. But Dr. Grant invited you to his Hawaiian style home off Sunset to tantalize your feathers with a role in the Department....getting an A plus from Dr Titus....but no Charlie, you saw fit to go your own way.
"Don’t deny it. You were sore at him. But you can’t pay attention. You’re alweays mooning in yourr private mind about some kind of cosmic destiny......tell me what is this great thing you’re always working on?" (Saul Bellow’s Humboldt’s Gift)

III

All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players :
They have their exits and entrances; ............Amd one man in his time, plays many parts..His act being seven ages. As, first the infantt mewing andf puking in the nurse’s arms. And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel and shining mooning face, creeping like snail, unwillingly to school And then the lover, sighing like furnace,with a woeful ballad made to his mistress’s eyebrow..Then the soldier full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, jealous in honour, sullen and quick in quarrel, secking the bubble reputation, even in the cannon’s mouth....

And then the Justice,in fair round belly with good capon lined with eyes severe and beard of formal cut; full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part.The sixth age shifts into the lean and slipper’d. With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved,, a world too wide for his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, turns again toward childish treble, pipes and whistles in his sound.
Last scene of all. Tha t ends this strange eventful history is second childishness and mere oblivion. .....sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything
(The Bard’s "As you like it" 1600)

IV

"So tell me Major Fenton," said the once Brooklynite of Crown Heights, his fatrher owning a grocery store before the Friedman clan migrated to the L:os Angeles basin. Leading the good life, the daughter once a substitute teacher in choral reading and chorus (under maestro Ben Chancy at Midwood High School) she hitched her star to Tricky Nixon’s own arpeggios and splinters from sitting on the Whittier College football bench...Nixon burger drive in rising on
those once stately orange groves.

Raising three boys in the orange grove environs of Fullerton Before the quirky freeways emasculated the landscape, ambitious developers bought the groves, putting up clean cut look aslike sub divivions of "ET" two bedrroom two car garages homes,.the tvee antennas on rooftoips aqs far as the eye could see.(Anaheim North Long Beach Lakewood Palm Desert Simi Valley 29 Palms Indio San Jacinto Sepulveda Woodland Hills Chatsworth Agoura Platt Ranch West Hills (Francis Lederer, "Confessions of a Nazi Spy" developer)
Hollywood Los Feliz Westchester (Norman Schacter, NFL referee and Byrd Jr. High principoal) Burbank LaCanada Lacracentta Sepulveda Bell Gardens Desert Hot Springs Joshua Tree
Northridge Pico Rivera Garfield High School reality scene
Northridge Pasadena Sierra Madre Eagle Rock Highland Park Los Angeles Altadena Azusa Alhambra Silver Lake Mar Vista Echo Park MacArthur Park Tuluca Lake Cheviot Hills Marina Del Rey Westwood Village Hemet Miracle Mile Hancock Park Hollywood&Vine Vermont Canyon Belmont Shore Signal Hill Beverly&Fairfax Farmers Market Universal City Gardena Vernon Yucca Valley Claremont (college)
Cemeteries Eden Memorial, San Fernando Forest Lawn, Hollywood Los AngelesUpland PacoimaVenice Masrina del Rey Culver City( Glen Gray&his Case Loma band) East Los Angeles barrio Lincoln Heights s Boyle Heights El Sereno La Habra Granada Hills (coach Elroy nurtured son John, at the high school) Sylmar San Fernando Pacoima. West Los Angeles Brentwood Ocean Park .... Santa Monica Pacific Palisades Pico Torrance Compton Van Nuys North Hollywood West Hollywood Maywood South Central Avenue Montecido Tujunga
Inglewood Saugus Sherman Oaks Victorvillle Apple Valley City Terrace
South Gate Costa Mesa Laguna Beach Malibu Piusmo Beach Ventura 1999 Oaks Redonda Beach Hermosaa Beach Huntington Beach Palmdale Sun Valley Verdugo Hills Reseda Canoga Park San Pedro Valencia ..........
Sherman Oaks Studio City Temple City San Clemente Valley Villasge South Pasadena Hollenbeck Belvedere Gardens Sunset Strip Bev erly Hills Hotel Bevewrly Hills Tennis Club restaurant Row LaCienega tennis courts Beverley Hills Park tennis courts
Temple Isaiah 20^th Century Sutio MGM Columbia at Gower Gulch
Warner Brothers Walt Disney Republic CBS tee vee Studio
City, LA. Tennis Club on North Rossmore ( Herby Flam Jack Kramer Pancho Gonzales Perry T. Jones director.) Westside Tennis Club Tarzan’s Lex Barker, Ray Milland ("Lost Weekend").Greg Bautzer, Eddie Belkind, Eva Marton (uncle, George Marton,second uynit director "Kimg Solomon Mines") tennis pro, Bob Harmon....
Santa Monica’s Lincoln tennis courts, Shangri-la apartent hotel, the Rand Global Gathering, Ocean Avenue (Law of Contracts on Mars)

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" Com’ on, Major Fenton.. The wash of sound? Tell the looney tunes as it is" beseeched the former vending manchine and p. o. zip confinement
"Spill the beans on Joe Paterno in the Bay Ridge Catholic League. Youy never played againbst him nor his brother. But Coach Coach identified with you at Boys and Giros duyring those recruiting tripos iunto the Beford Stuy inner city.,
Afterwards he responded to your notes twice.....why so? His legacy with the Nittany Lions tarnished with the NCAA fining the Happy Valley divinity with a 6t0 million $ fine, loss oif 20 or wso scholarships and the jack hammering of Poppa Joe’s statute outside the blood sweat and tears spilled over his six decades of determinism at Happy Valley."the NCAA "null&void" the winningest coach victories in collegiate gridiron history.\
"I never met Jerry Sandusky," as the Major and Marviola focused in on the nerd from U/C Riversdie who crashed in a Denver Colorqado subur....his scenario as an 18 year old insulated San Diego preppie like socfcar track and cross country...his mon into her role as a nurse. His pops playing out his as a manager of a software company. Six years later he driops out of PHDm program at University of Colorado Medical SAchool....
"You have to loose yourself to find yourself"

VI

"Identifying with the Batman’s nemesis, the Jooker. Dying his hair red, the black coat and hat, .He could never find his true self, Maravilla. He once had a soul But he may have fettrerd it away in Riversdie, during his undergraduate yesterdays..
"He lost it all on fast women and slow horses said Willie Pep .
Dusty Acres San Bernardino .......too hot to handle in his nsearch for himself, Marv,"nodded the retiree AF officer whose own yesterdays at March Air Force Base outsdide the campus. Or Lowery ,the Denver base...
Rremember Ir’s marriage in Inglewood?. Didn’t he live in Aurora.....
"And thew two Marko pizza restaurants in Denver....the Moose’s nephew."Marko’s Ne se ce pas. Nes cepas?"
Dorothy Roberrts, the head counselor at Verdugo Hills High, "the kids state of mind are in their teacher’s qualitative semester scenarios," she said, handing them to Fenton.

VII

Ther two confederates intio their Los Abgekles basin dialogue...Marviola and his Crowb Heiughts paternalism, the family into migration. His sister, a chorale chorus music sub undere maestro Ben Chancy at Midwood High School.
She migrated to Fullerton, once the site of Orange Orchids, before the developers changed the landscape......the Apple Valey syndrome, the ET scenario sweeping thru the sub disvisions...acres into lots.....rasiing three sons, her brother consumed by vending machines and seeking security tossing letters in the spectrum of zip codes in the Southern California turf.
Victorville Oxnard Saugus Noirth Hollywood East Los Angeles Lincoln Heights El Sereno the Barrio Boyle Heights Terminal Annex p.o Santa Ana Santa Monica Venice Ocean Park Pacific Palisades Brentwood Hollywood Los Angeles Beverely Hills West Los Angeles Costa Mesa North Long Beach
Compton South Gate Van Nuiys Reseda Woodland Hills Topango Canyon Platt Ranch Canoga Park Santa Barbara Long Beach North Long Beach Baldwin Hills El Monte Upland Pacoima Sun Valley Burbank Glendale LaCresenta San Marino Sierra Madre Flintridge Pasadena
Altadena Alhambra Lancaster West Covina Fontana Calabasas Hills El Monte Pico Torrance South Gate El Toro Artesia Loma Linda Ojai Maywood Montebello Monrovia Nortrh Long Beach......
Cemeteries Eden Memorial, San Fernando Forest Lawn, Los Angeles, HollywoodEl Segundo AF Base Verdugo Hills Troiusdale Estates Bel Air (Stone Canyon Bellagio Roads) Lake Elsinore Alvera Street Union Station. Skidrow Pershing Square Biltmore Hotel
Billy Graham ‘s dress rehearsals, adjacent to the library.....
City Hall, Mayor Tom Bradley, LA Times, Dorothy Chandler’s Music Center , Stairs that ascented to the City’s heightUSC and the Trojan landmark off Figeroa...the dance halls. Bars on Main Satreet the barber college, the Spanish speaking movie palaces two burlesques
(Ginger Britton, Betty Rowland)
‘’The Coliseum Hollywood Bowl KUSC radio station Hollywood Citizen News......Capitol Records the recording studio for military USO
welcopming center on Sunset (Shirley Temple,. Bette Davis, **Tony Martrin**) and Hollywood&Vine)
Brown Derby(s) Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire Arvo Van Alstyne’s Yale Law School (Loyola. Law) Southestern’s e;levator law classes.....
Carthay Circle ("Four Feathers" "A Dual in the Sun" Gregory Peck Joseph Cotton)

VIII

Like two refugees into the new world, reengaging their pass portrs at the Hollywood Greyhound bus stop on Highland, down aways from Hollywood High (Midwood High’s Howard Goldman, his father, the manager of Adam Hats, on the Boulevard,their elevator apartment on North Mariposa)
Billy Berg’s jazz emporium ( Dizzy Gillipsie, the Bird’s bee bop) Palladium for dancing. Venice’spier Jimmy Dorsey (Tommy?) Ocean Parl’s Casino Gardens..their p[enny arcade machines, the merry go round on Santa Monica’s pier, the bingo games for the "oldies" Venice pier’s diving bell the roller skating rink for Charlie Chaplin’s persona...derby, mustachio, pegged pants, cane.
Maren Ellwood’s school for writers across the way. Carl Foreman, Howard Lindsay’s son in klaw, a reader at Warner Brothers, Mark Myersom"Don’t take a regular nine to five job. Substitute."

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In the meantime at the Knickerbocker Hotel brunch, Harry Revel, the piano oplayer and composer...Parius the Spring, the Surragate Courtr Blues took from his paqper bag slits of butter. Victor McClagen ("The Imformer") waving, tossed oiranges from his Valley grove unto the table.

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But the reminiscing ended when the two men came to the tragedies and disqappearing acts of trhier contemporaries.......at the Sawtelle Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Brentwood.....Fenton on the catatonic ward (long before his fkight to Rome,Italy for a thirty day Experiment in International Living and his military experience of some 18-23 years.....
Pacing the ward, Fenton graced a patient, clad in his pajamas. "Julie, what the Hell are you doing here. Among the catatonics. You should be scribbling your track&field studff for Ucla’s Daily Bruin.....We wondered about your vanishing reality scene. What happened, Jluie......"
Julie looked up...."Fenton,why you?. Could have hit bottom in skidrow.....going with my steady to the Zuma Beach. Carousing necking big time.. My libido was so aroused, she turned the lights off and I uncontrollably snapped. My old man pulled strings, got me into Sawtelle....a veteran."
"But in the next moment we were strapping Julie down, holding him by the ankles as the psychiatrists adm inistered electric shock......is body tremors...a heavy price to pay for his emasculation. And crack up in the semi tropical fantasy traffic.
Exaltation.......Jubilation

XI

"So tell me Major, what’s your take on the Joker mailing the plan of of his Century 16 theater 9 massacre to his mentor and psychiatrist at the University of Colorado after he washed out on his orals.."
"His inner need for reognition, playing out A premeditation as they say in the annals oif Criminal Law His confession, the Joker’s need to be caught. Captured, apprehended going down in flames, Marviola. No love life, that was his claim to notoriety. Ten minutes of fame.....for a single in his tailspin. Taking the audience with him in mayhem.
" Remember the "Blue Max" with George Peppard. Helmeted, piloting his fantrasy ,seeking revenge."
A single stud of a loner No military experience, no European experience. Hisa video game expertise may have gone to his video game strategies, his experience as a camp counselor precludes his persecution complex. A need to be captured alive."Murder he wrote"An authority figure in search of his role, mowing down his captive audience... Writing his own unfulfilled wish fulfillment....
******
*"All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players.....
**TonyMartin passed on the next day at 98.Natural courses in West Los Angeles.

July 27, 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremonies.....London, England

Having his very sanity under a cloud

Having his very sanity under a cloud, the insane mojos of contemporary life, bursting at theseams of its reality scene..the former Portugal-Mozambique Air Force analyst nudged his sweet heart wife and mother confessor as they nursed their grub at Fort Hamilton’s Burger King. Mac.

II

Major Fenton and his "de amore" as the left bank of the Grand Hotel of Paris on Rue de Vaugirard look at it."The newly established government in Egypt demanded that the former Presidente be discharged from his hospital bed walls..moved back to the bars of his prison walls.
"He’s well enough to forgo the hospital routine," said the Cairo prosecutor."Get him back to the mojos he committed during his 4 decades of power by insidious role playing." he added.
"Once a crumb bum, always a crum bum"

III

A flash back to the Pump Room of the Beverly Hills Hotel...the Major and the renowned director and "Playhouse 90" director Delbert Mann, sharing gin and tinkling ice cubes. Delbert having just masterminded "Marty", a tour de force for Hamden Connecticut(Quinnipiac College) Italian born Ernest Borgnine.
Identifying with "Whata ya doing tonight, Marty?", the Studio City denizen, made the role his own, sweeping aside other contenders for the enviable Oscar
His 95 year old"viva Italia" divinity, abandoned his Studio City reality scene, playing out its inevitability att Cedars Sinai.. across the Hollywood Hills. ......

IV

Meanwhile in the City that never sleeps . At Gracie Mansion, the Mayor, "Bloomie" to his inner circle, their multi millionaire penned his legacy with the Depoartment of Interior. The Jamaica Bay of pelicans&geese, the swamps to be given a multimillionaire face lift..
A whooping park and trails to become the public domain, Bloomie en route to his dollar a year
twelve year majesty.

V

Up in the Bronx, at the new Yankee Stadium .The Bombers
wily Raol Abanez smashed a grand slam into the second decfk, above Monument
Park.
"My teammates....a three and one pitch by the blue jays hurler. Swisher may have worn him out,working the count from O and2, to 3 nd tywo....finally striking out. But the collective team effort ..." as Raol line drived his zzinger ,the athletes blown away with high fives.
"Less is more"" said the clutch hitter, refining an apocryphal point of view..
A grand slam ,breaking a two two tie,.the bottom of the 8trh. The Yankees in first place in the East, the second half starting ,the players in first place by 9 games...
Hail Raol

VI

But the bastions of the food pantries: tuna peanut butter fruit juices...had but 48 hours before the checkers would press the delete key stroke of their scenario.Less is more?
No brain lock here. Raol having total recall

VII

Mike Tyson, the former heavy weight champ, sparring for the prime time Broadway ring, 12 confessionals, would have something to say about that, I’m sure,", said Major Fenton to his own sparring partner of an eye patient, his quiet minded ophthalmology partner, at the Midwood theater balcony... .... .his wife and better half.
"Y’ think Major," she asked in her most tactful Chicago Hyde Park demeanor. No Mel Torme. ("the Velvet Fog" playing out. Nor University of Chicago’s Robert Hutchins or Saul Bellow playing out their unitary field theory...no fragmentation here.
"Tyson got it all together. He found himself , Major. A gentle soulf., Married, a daughter accepted at Duke University.
" Raises pedigree pigeons. What more could he wishfor, neighbor?"
"Like Whopee Goldberg’s gay guest says" You could grow up and be like me... or you could be
Mike Tyson. We both were bullied as kids."

VIII

But the reality scene’s mojo...the meaning of our meaning- during the penultimate Santa Ana winds blowing thru the City that never sleeps, that made for the greatest city on the planet morphing as a Mojave Desert Turkish bath global village (San Bernardino declaring bankruptcy) loop.
Bobby Kennedy’s daughter cited in a cop’s traffic accident ticket, made a long apology to the
truck driver and the other motorists she bruised, having a seizure..
Seeing her Miss Universe like stance, former Governor Cuomo’s wife, her blonde tresses down
to her shoulders, reading her apology without glasses, was riveting. Not that she was in the upper tier of Cleopatra, the humbling playing out.....as we passed her father in the U.S. Senate while making our way to argue the passing of the Public Television Act of 1967. In the suc Commerce Committee.

IX

 Those Santa Ana winds...driving the temperatures to the high 90's hundreds, the force of nature driving the man against man flaring. High peak of civil unrest: knifings, rapes, murder, suicide."When will it cease, neighbor?."
Nobody knows. Not even Lamont Cranston.(Victor Jory).."The Shadow knows"
Television’s ten minutes of fame" driving the ego trip angst to a brain bloc.

X

A flashback into the Beverly Hills loopl of Igor Stravninsky, an emigre Russian composer, living out his creative whirl on North Wetherly Drive, while Delmore Schwartz, a genius poet in his own role at USC’s English department, "wasted" away his own world grip in the semi tropical
ambience of the Trojan campus...
Flittering away his gifts behind the wheels of a Town&Country, a barrio based senorita from Belevdere Gardens, alongside, her Maria Montez tresses, assaulting the senses of the on lookinglaw students.
Poor Delmore, never ever able to hold on to his own wheels, Saul Bellow’s "Humboldt’s Gift" While Stravinsky conducted his Firebird at the Wilshire Ebell interior band shell.
Those race track touts of Post&Paddock’s George and Dolly, not able to get a handle on his jollies favor.,Tto rehabilitate him, back into the English Department role.....throwing the tout sheets into the Inglewood red trolley cars..destined for Archie Leach’s ( Cary Grant’s) Hollywood race track.....(" el presidente"_)

XI

Meantime the junky Knicks . swishing the pumpkin between the Houston Rockets and Big Apple Linnsanity.... was playing out.
The 35 game Linnsanity had mesmerized the Madison Square Garden faithful until hysteria and adrenalin ran out. But his teammates in the meantime made the playoffs.
The Houston management with their 7 foot 3 inch Chinese center(retired because of a broken leg) offered Linn, a free agent, a 3 year deal for 25 million..
The Knicks had until last night to respond . They did not, therefore Linnsanity tweeted "My endearing gratefulness," for the play construction ,"during our 35 game tenure.."

XII

Divine Providence playing out, the Santa Ana winds swirling about the City that never sleeps.
RighI ‘Iron Man Mike’
Right
*******
The genius of human engineering and the unitary field theory is the docking of the Enterprise shuttle on the deck of the Intrepid......
The 57 ‘ space ship to JFK..... its Hudson River voyage with tugboat Annie’s escort unto the Intrepid’s deck..... playing out its scenario from its Cape Canaveral booster launch.
"One small step for man. A giant leap for mankind".
*Completely unconscious of the Aurora, Colorado insanity playing out at the Warner Brothers showing of its "Batman" sequel, pulling its Parisian "business as usual" premiere.

from the City that never sleeps, July 20, 2012

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While contemplating retirement at eighty, Lawrence of Arabia

While contemplating retirement at eighty, Lawrence of Arabia,( Peter O;Toole),the producer’s (Sam Spiegal) partner, during their tandem in tennis, Sam’s support system, was back in the Big Appl of Brooklyn,, having his eyes prescribed for bifocals in the Midwood mvie house’s balcony, morphed into a 7 starred ophthalmology stream of consciousness.

II

During the warmup for the partita, the six foot plus Irish attendant, bristling in his slender crew cut, those spectacles gleaming at the presence he ensnared on the mini white screen, the digitals and codes running the KLM rapids.
"Tell me Major Fenton, what line can you read"? he asked of the 7 retina lined inner sanctum, the balcony theatrics long since gone they way of "Goodbye Mr Chips" the "you get the drift" pioneer Marvin Kotchman, following his karma to its inevitability.... starting in a furnished cellar off Church and Ocean Avenue hundreds of thousand years age when he and his Harvard legalese spouse were ready to spring Marvin’s presence on the RKO Kenmore denizens down the street.

III

The tallish insouciant attendant flipped the light, Major Fenton, a patient, since the balcony morphed as a medicare and medicaid rendevous for KLM’s reputed
empathy and smiling light touch.
Indeed! As Marvin would say "You get the drift?" whether its bifocals, cataracts glaucoma field test...they came in their huddling droids: canes,walkers, wheel chairs ,sitting in the once reality scene of the Midwood movie house’s balcony metamorphosis..
"Goodbye Mr. Chips"

IV

The big screen and the balcony of the Midwood movie house’s reality scene may
have been disguised and masked as the elevator brought the patients to the once "necking" balcony.for adolescents chasing their dreams.
That early morning Friday,("GBF") the crew cutted "highly intelligent" but guarded in his lomy parlance murmured "Come with me,"as he escorted Major Fenton to the next tier of patient rapport.... sparkling ego walls, framed with KLM pedigree academic, surfing for credibility..

V

Major Fenton and the very quiet minded Peter O’Toolish had first broken the ice two years earlier, while the retina aide de camp has rubbed their sneakers at the Avenue J bus stop.
"Going my way"’? asked the Major, scuffling his sneaker against the in house specialist’s sneaker.
"Oh hello," said t1he taciturn crew cutted a la Dagwood Bumsted fellow, still in his blue scrubs, covered up by his overcoat...."Going back to my apartment in Bensonhurst" he continued, sizing
the Majopr’s fated appointment with KLM’s chosen ones.
"Hjow’d your day go?" asked Major Fenton, his eyes searching the Avenue J traffic for a B 11," putting out his right hand grasp, symbolic of fellowship and fraternity.

VI

In the ensuing two years, the two humans met on those monthly wet maculate appointed injections by the retina specialist, whose resume now graced the 7 maned KLM marquee, that old Midwood cinema coming attractions and "Goodbye Mr Chips" now showing.
"Y’ge tthe drift?," asked the Marvin in absentio.How sweet it is," bellowed Ralph Kramden (Jackie Gleason) from his post atop Niagara Falls, where his own post retirement was playing out,the town of Niagara reachedg out with a 2 hundred thousand $ grant to the "Honeymooners" to rehabilitate Niagara and the Falls in an age where hoineymoons and marriage were under a blitz.
　

VII

On one occasion, when the Majore and his wife of a nurse shared their space with Dunkin Doughnuts, the gaunt taciturn attendant was having his coffee break. Small talk ensued
with the frau, and his two lady seniors, jawing at his table.
"Two Holocaust survivors," he added, in his monthly sojourn.
"You know what day this is?" askled the Major, changing the repartee from the usual line of brain waves, Ucla’s LSD experiments duringf the 60's.. Goethe’s psychoanalytic study by Dr. Eisler."
"It’s the Pope’s name day. Benedict 16, He had Daniel Barenbaum play Beethoven’s Fifth and Sixth....the maestro brought in the musicians into the Vatican."

VII

Major Fenton was anticipating their meeting in the summer heat and humdity of July’s y.......but the taciturn "sir" and crew cutted six footer had split out..
Given his notice to Marvin Kochman’s heirs at KLM.
"Where? Donde ?" the Major asked his femme contempories... champions of Dr. Marvin ‘s scenario.
"Medical school.....his resume accepted by an Israeli school. He was so intelligent ....yet it seemed to me something was lacking .. I don’t know..Bu this balcony wasn’t worth his price of admission....his ticket stub.....
"Goodbye Mr. Chips"

Scenes from the City that never sleeps, July 11,2012

"Eureka," cried the unaccredited Scientology graduate

"Eureka," cried the unaccredited Scientology graduate, pursuing the likes of Tom Cruise and John Travoltta of "Saturday night fever", cruising Niagara Falls in the wake of a $200000
entitlement grant to college graduates for a year of OJT...on the job training, restoring Niagara to its once idyllic reality scene for honeymooners, Niagara having lost its luster thru seismic shocks of same sex alliances.

II

Ed Norton and his alter eg ...a Hollywood Boulevard bus driver (B11) were too preoccupied in their own reality scene.....digging deep into tinsel town sewers, skewing the bus routes... to be fully conscious of the Niagara opportunities awaiting college graduates down on their luck, recouping their federal loans on tuition books dorms.
"Ralphie," he said,coming up from his daily dark hole into the apartment space he and his Trixie shared with the bus driver and his frau, Alice.
"The city of Niagra came up with a two hundred thousand($200000) refurbishing grant. A one year entitlement to put the town back on its feet. At the same time restoring the romantic flavor of Niagara Falls."
"Our Honeymooners, Norton. . But we’re working stiffs. They want under graduates.",said Kramden, taking off his jacket, his incognito shades, clad in his Bermuda shorts.

III

"Ralphie, remember the OJT Post&Paddock at Hollywopod race track. Same encroachment here. Even more so. Niagara became a sore spot seeking pros like us.
"Trixie and Alice... married wenches attest for our long post marital struggles thru the wars of same sex on Vbictoria’s secret web site.t. Viagra cialis the internet’s armagetton."
"We can make a difference, Norton?, : asked Kramden, stirring his spo0on into his coffee, his once bel;ligerent aggressive demeanor soaking up the idea of rehabilitating Niagara Falls and its defunct village.


IV

Meanwhile the wives....Alice and Trixie bent on their shopping spree, were aghast on hearing their spouses’s latest fadangle Don Quixote Richard Straus "Der Eulenspiegal"
"You don’t need us, mister Kramden......"
"Alice, Norton came up with the proposition. You and Trixie are part of the package. There was no credibility on the Honeymooners without you girls."
"That was a different era. So long ago. The country was...."
‘Credibility, credoitability....you and Trixie made our CBS run. We can do it again 3000 miles away at the Falls. Relive our romantic yesterdays in present time ....Nton pack Trixie’s bags...nmd not the ones under her eyes."

V

How these four Honeymooners of time past were able to finagle their way to Niagara Falls, it surely wasn’t because of their wedding rings and their "I do"s into matrimonial bliss.
Niagara’s founding fathers hired them at the drop of a 13 week renewal.
The town of Niagara hae no choice, throwing the dice. ..
Ralphie at the brnink of the thunderous Fallsa, passing out his guile to newlyweds.
Norton at the bottom, reassuring them of the bliss that awaited .
Alice and Trixie in their Niagara store, polisahing their five decades of bliss amdist the fracas and anxieties.....
Nirvana or oblivion

July 5, 2012

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"Lancaster", 9/29/02 redefining himself 7/4/12

"Lancaster", 9/29/02 redefining himself 7/4/12Hoop de hoop ooh aah the big top the circus….No not Barnum&Bailey,the
greatest show on Earth…."Lang & Cravat" into their aerial acrobats: somersaults
flips into space without a net, their bodies free &easy; not out of a cannon hurling
thru .the big tops ozone…Heralding our space age.. Spudnik…Challenger
Enterprise Discovery. Mir the Shuttle……"Young men on the flying trapeze"　Down to earth artists on the long &short horse, the parallel bars, the high
bar, (the trapeze), the rings, swinging into their kips, their legs extended, shooting straight out.
　
Their backs arced, arms into an iron cross …"oohs aahs" for a moment
into a single double triple somersault, landing flat footed on the mats, their feet
squared ,arms hurled upward, the apex of the big top’s life,　
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　The riveting aerobics of Burton Stephen Lancaster from the East Bronx. Spanish
Harlem, an Apollo born spiritual magician reaching for our Earth bound
Heavens, extending his gig thru unselfishness & sacrifice, thinking
he could outwit the predators and influence human behavior of 20^th century
society, never shortchanging the ooohs and aahs of his audience.　His saga of a sweeping personal discovery, encompasses 8 decades of
exploration, finding his true self thru his film roles in tinsel town, Italy France.　3 wives 5 children (2 boys,3 girls) business partners, lechers into the money 　scent, jogging the UCLA (Harry Trotter) Ducky Drake track’s fast lane of Wilt Chamberlain .Woody Strode Jim Brown into a quadruple bi pass, never relinquishing the baton until his 8 decades crossed the finishing line, gasping for
oxygen , the price he paid for journeying into his artistic triumph-the ultimate
cosmic consciousness, realizing his vision into a creative reality he could never
have grasped, like those chalked sweaty palms on the acrobatic rings when
he was first starting out on life….The Second Avenue El, the East Bronx Spanish Harlem, the Union Settlement House, DeWitt Clinton High, NYU, Lang&Cravat
Army Special Services The Royalton Hotel .A short run play….falling in love….a
Mark Hellinger screen test…. Hemingway’s "The killers"　3　"I never let it get to my unconscious mind that all the time, I was trying to be an actor. There was the pattern for me to read, spread out before me. But I wouldn’t. Nobody but nobody can make a good life for himself if he keeps on denying his own pattern, his own drive, his real self."　The audition for the role of Lou Pasco, "Atlantic City’s" small time hood, returning for a caper The Steel Pier, Ventnor Avenue was there at the beginning of the
Lang&Cravat acrobats,2 shows a day….2:30…8:30….17 hours a day.　"Lou Pasco was Burton Stephen Lancaster as he might have ended up if he had never stepped into that elevator in the Royalton Hotel."　4
Miscalculating the trajectory, the tapestry without a safety net, "do as I say the
code yellow orange. Or you’re toast."… Split second timing, the acrobats
survived for another performance, driving their jalopy 50 miles to the next haunt....barnstorming up&down the East Coast…into Charlie Farrell’s "7^th Heaven"
Hurling their bodies... swinging swaying thru those parallel bars, the horsey,the
chinning hi bar, ropes . Double triple back loops, their bodies slashing thru the
invisible, swallowing up their bodies, Lancaster’s "give ‘em the snake eye", the
leaping risk of falling, outweighed any thoughts of bourgeois realities... 　A confluence of forces "Beating the Devil", Einstein’s eloguence
of gravity&mass, relating to Time.Cambridge’s Sir Isaac Newton relishing his role, throwing the apple into the invisible, its measured descent thru Time vanquished
"Lang&Cravat" meshed their East Bronx Second Avenue 105thStreet reality
scene into a Michael Jordan Scotty Pippen"s zone", their gymnastics
handcuffing them togetherness thru their backyards, the Union Settlement gym.,those two shows daily, into vaudeville acts sandwiched between a dog, a pony, an elephant, 5 horses..　
"He sees a reality no one else sees. showing the other characters the better way." Like searching for God at ground zero". Burt dared us to do more, to be better, push harder…We were all his sons..."　The scenario was predestined like Macbeth’s witches giving him and his Lady
the "word". The Bard’s gig of ESP, interweaving the fates, beating the
clock ,hawking the odds, at London’s Globe theater. 3 tiered galley
Brian Epstein salivating at his Liverpool furniture store, awaiting the "fab 5" of
Lennon McCartney Harrison, the 6^th Beatle . to make their score..at a club in
Hamburg, Germany of all cities.. where the thinking of Attu, the other conspirators of Osama Ben Laden’s Al Quaida…..thought out their murderous 9/11/01 twin towers suicide ,.all in the name of Allah…..　Why is it? After the fact, second guessing ourselves. Pearl Harbor, December 7,
1941…..60 years shy of 3 months.. No heroes abounding the reality
scene.Where was Burton Stephen Lancaster aka Burt Lancaster.Nick Cravat,
his East Bronx kimosabi?.　The finality of the horror beyond any fantasy of King Kong James Bond.
Godzilla….Not a search engine searching for God at ground zero….3000 missing
Souls. Ives’s "Unanswered question" for a once hedonistic society.　
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"Lives that tell are those that are spread out to the full octave of justice &fairness For the spiritual man to battle for art. How to see what he saw.",,,,
Second Avenue between 104 and 105, the East River at low tide. The Lancaster
Victrola into those Caruso arias…His mother of the Irish noblese oblige, aside
the "reek of toilets out in the hall"… her thrust changing the world. "Burton"
Burton" she screamed, her head out the window…..her post office employed
husband on the stoop, singing "When Irish eyes are smiling….My wild Irish
rose" "Where is that boy?".. Could he be running the Union Settlement House’s
indoor track?. Classes in painting, drama, English as a second language,
hygiene, sewing, dancing?A delivery boy working on tips?, his newspaper route?, shining shoes?. His
homespun wooden box alongside.


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East Harlem’s Little Italy but a foretaste of "la miserie",the "miserie", the
Southern Italian peasants….His roles in "The Leopard", Bertollucci’s "1900?
Dynamic Little Italy the down to earth American experiment playing out on his
turf, the Little Flower, Fiorello LaGuardia, to become Mayor, parents
Italian Jewish…in between swallows of "Maria Callas forever", tenor John
McCormack……"Burt always lived his life as if it were an Opera"　7 　"Burt was a gentle person because he knew he could kill someone"
"You have to fight against being monique. An artifact of a culture’s past, and not
a part of its future. Make it a part of your Soul" said the Name Detective, sitting on the fire escape, his blue eyes on the sprawling smart street scene below…

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1925, the Bronx Settlement House, Harold Adolph Hecht watching Lancaster 25
years later, matching voice & gesture ,.realizing he was seeing his own future….
The fresh vision of the Russian soul….Maria Ouspenskaya of Konstantin
Stanislavsky"s "Moscow Art Theater"…..The Group Theatre,1931,a
collective.,Repertory training school…Stella Adler, Harold Klurman,Lee
Strassberg,Cheryl Crawford Elia Kazan…Odets "Awake and sing" on the boards. Cagney at the Lennox Settlement House, East Christe Street…Applying Walt Whitman’s "Leaves of Grass"…there was a link..
that went forth every day and the first object he looked upon, that object became
his…into the cycle of years…"　9

Meanwhile across town in the boro of Brooklyn, Harry Houdini’s cousin’s
husband, Moe Horowitz aka Moe Howard, (subsequently "The 3 Stooges") was jumping off a high tower, a Charley’s Aunt, into a postage stamp sized pool.
"Never again", he said, his target like a Sloan Kettering cancer detector,
targeting the tumor, without destroying the good cells.
"I’m in remission," said the Chariot of Fire actor.47 years into his karma, his
most recent role…"Oh yes Bendle" Lord of the Rings" I’m in fine little .But I don ‘t
recommend cancer for anyone." Those sturdy steady eyes ready for anything the planet might dish out...Nothing to lose except your own narcissism, the support system that kept you
groping thru those tearful anguished moments of self pity.. the crucifixion,
before eventful disease and physical decay. Vincent Van Gogh’s life?
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Bertram Stephen Lancaster of the Union Settlement House rejected their
Scholarship, yet he always needed an audience for expanding the boundaries of
human consciousness. "Giving ‘em the snake eye" into the invisible ,the
unknown..
Fear of failing in lieu of falling from the high bar, .The fear of success
even more so. Discoverers: Columbus Marco Polo Lewis& Clark Jefferson Lincoln FDR Truman LBJ….the vultures like Falstaff Iago dissembling, parasites that they were,
undermining Apollo’s confidence, his grip on his soul. America’s asylums
are not bedlams of silence for no reason at all..　"This is a tragedy worth pondering. It may also lead us to better understand &appreciate the struggles of great artists, as we hope to keep them in good health.. For these are the pioneers of human culture, the men and women who make life worth living for all of us." Seneca’s "De transgllitake Animi". Ostwald’s "Nijinsky". Kate Buford’s "Burt Lancaster"
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"Making the film became like the film"
"Castle Keep" from a deMaupassant short story "Madamoiselle Fifi"was a ‘noir"
new wave flick, shot outside Belgrade. "Europe is dying" "No Beckman.She’s
dead. That’s why we’re here,’’ says Major Falconer,(Lancaster)　Surreal you say like a longshoreman at a union picnic… the delays, the weather
vane changing, the cast restless, the star’s love life off camera more emotional
than the film itself.. Blowing up the castle with all its art works, before the Nazis
brutalized the "Mademoiselle Fife" theme. Needing two powder kegs because of
the climatic changes.,the cinematographer from Truffault’s "400 blows" was
going bananas…　"Cool" you say…right you are. Does the scene still work? Does Major Falconer
dominate it?
"iI Postimo", the Postman’s director, dissected the blueprint for 12 months
at his London film school..　"You have to be intransigent" said the Leopard’s director, Visconti. ,bringing out
the best in you. A generous actor off camera, his eye contact with
his collective alter egos, remember the eyes and gesture technique, raising
the bar…a highly competitive man he sometimes blamed his :"companion" for
mistakes that were really his.. the "Waterloo" of being intransigent.,his wave-
length into Hungarian composer Bela Bartok’s tempi and melodies.,his formative
creative strengths into the correlation of expansion, notwithstanding the box ffice receipts.　He found his mission in life like a 14 year old trampoline artist….But can he play
the clarinet like Benny Goodman, balancing his topsy turvy across the high wire.
"What the Hell is Kant’s ‘categorical imperative"? he shouted, hurling that
nobles oblige of curiosity in your face, the street smarts intellectual he
was, light years ahead of portraying Hemingway’s Swede in his short story "The
Killers", Hellinger subsequently rehearsing, starring him off for 8
decades..
"Remember there’s a little clock inside of you and a little clock inside of men. We got to keep those clocks ticking alongside of each other. "The higher the act, the easier it gets. The higher you get, the tighter the wire can be stretched. .It gets so tight that its solid. Aiming for success is the secret, blocking out the terror. of falling "　Mantra or not, eighty years, and still no quadruple off the high bar... How do you
like those bananas. dear reader? You can’t eat mantras…but when you’re 19 years old into the futuro, you thrive on it….. 　12

When his mother Lizzie had her cerebral hemorrage, the family buried her in
Brooklyn’s Cypress Hills, the same resting place for Mae West , her mother,
Their own pilgrimage thru the landscape.
"The hole she left behind in her son’s mind and heart was never filled. .She was buried in his "Field of Dreams", her son’s last flick, she being part of his big eclectic Irish Soul….she giving him a different idea of himself... mopped hair and all, tumbling thru gymnastics, scoring 12 points on the high school’s varsity…like 50 in the 21^st century….scratching into Nick (Cuccia) Cravat…"that horror Frankenstein is more than what it says .""Right Burt, you would know. Telling a story with the monster’s body…"You’re right .."Nickodemus"…Mary Shelly’s monster is an allegory..the two became ‘Lang&Cravat’, running off to join the circus..."Nihil sinc labore.…"Blood gall and salt burning within our spindly frames"　13

"A perfectionist in complete control of his vision. For the first time in his life he sincerely believes he can make rain, really make rain. And for the first time in his life, he really can. Remember the "Rainmaker"s past life was in an ancestor’s service, the forces of Charlemagne."
"You’re marvelous folks," said Security into his role at Coney Island Hospital’s
pharmacy, maintaining order, keeping the numbered denizens in line. his
expansiveness into Robert Cummings passing at 82. He remembered splitting
out from Midwood High for the Elm, and Hitchcock"s "Saboteur", Cummings not
yet into his 5 marriages and a love affair with vitamins &minerals.
Gone at 82,he played the white hat, his hand dangling the black hat’s hand, from
the Statute of Liberty’s torch. Similar to the suspense laden models in Harold Lloyd’s dangling moment off big Ben’s hour hand….the :"39 Steps", Mister Telepathy on stage, the bomb’ssecrets within his photographic memory….Joel McCrea’s "Foreign Correspondent", the kidnapped Prime Minister, Albert
Basserman tied up in the innards of a Dutch windmill.

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"Com’on peoples, none of this meanness today. Stay in line, no pushing, shoving,"said thr voice of authority at Coney Island hospital.
"War paint on or not, ladies.. I don’t want to put you at the back," feeling his
chemistry with his audience. He should be paying the loony bin for tolerating
him, letting him be himself….a graying panther into being & becoming a leading
man, a Charlie Farrell "Star is born"..　Burt Lancaster would approve he thought. Wasn’t he like the East Bronx’s
Irishman. A nonconformist into opera and (Beverly Sills) Bubbles Siverman, once of Kings Highway, a stone’s throw from the pharmacy..　Lancaster as the "Swede" in Hemingway -Hellinger’s "Killers".- the loner destined
for his exit, waiting for his "Appointment in Samara" at the diner….　Wasn’t he a circus trapeze gymnastic genius, always trying to
elevate…transcend our Earthly shortcomings....
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Hellinger, a short story scribe himself becoming a producer, living on North LaBrea, his Ziegfield chorus line frau, Gladys, thinking life in tinsel town- rubbing elbows with the hoi poloi- was the Nirvana……　Thru 60 flicks, a son who stressed out, Brentwood’s Sawtelle.,an ex mistress
during his "Elmer Gantry" yesterdays, identifying with William Randolph Hearst,
&his paramour, Miriam Davies .His Pirate roles swashbuckling like Errol Flynn’s
"Captain Blood" "Field of Dreams" as Doc, the rookie old timer…."Atlantic City"
as the world weary minor Mafiaso…
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In Mexico with Sam Peckinpaugh, Lee Marvin, William Holden…"The Professionals"..….."Judgment at Nuremberg", Brooklyn’s Spencer Tracy, "Birdman from Alcatraz", specs on, caring for the limpy birds from the ledge outside his cell, those formative years of the East Bronx, homing pigeons on the tenement roofs…　"Brute Force" the same genre.. "Gunfight at OK Corral", "Sweet smell of success"
"The Leopard" "Conversation pieces" "1900" "Come back, little Sheba", costarred with Shirley Booth…."I can see the wheels turning. Your brain working.. He called me at 3 in the morning to explain a scene. Don’t sell him short. One day he’ll be a great actor." "Trapeze" doing his own high wire acrobatics "Separate Tables" "From here to Eternity" "Jim Thorpe" all American.
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"You pushing in front, lady? Where’s your number? Naah, you got an easy hour wait. Doc Schacter is doing his best, ain’t he? You know his coz, the NFL football Monday night ref? It wont do you any good Even if you knew Osama Ben Laden Saddam Hussein? Case closed!"　Burt Lancaster in Los Alamitos Intensive Care. Admitted into Emergency, one
side paralyzed, speechless."The Swimmer", a Westchester fantasy on
conformity….The Oscar for his interpretation, the Evangelistic dialectic minister,
Sinclair Lewis nodding approval if he was up &alive,.breathing the Tuscany
Air of Italy..18

Security murmured a silent prayer for the Bronx born Lancaster. "Lady I told you once…"There’s 500 humans ahead of you.," into his role as a volunteer at the Coney Island hospital pharmacy, his Joe E. Brown of a mouth, opening wide across the Belt Parkway, the Mitchell Lama projects, Abraham Lincoln High School, Russian (Ocean) Parkway, Brighton Beach baths, Coney Island boardwalk (where Dick Mohan once of Pacoima Jr High library, Valley College in San Fernando Valley was faded to meet his old kimosabi, Irv Honer, also a retired school librarian, Northridge, Studio City)……Bay 7, the parachute jump, the Cyclone with Jack "10 minutes of fame", the Hack, Workman’s Circle, Nathans, Stillwell Surf Avenue, the acquarium, the Atlantic Ocean…..　"Yodelayaoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo"　
　
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"An exquisite fatalism about life &death. History, his own class, his own person"
　Lancaster like Visconti’s "Leopard", waited for that crouched power to inhabit
him. akin the Phantom’s panther of King Features "what fools these mortals be"
"I had the luck to have an obedient body. Much like a prince, "acing" his roles.,
,testing his opposition, finding their breaking point." A gattopardo of Riccio on the
Adriatic, "highly connected to the Centuries and the floor of time" 　"An idealized superior human being" a searching Irish shaman, being put into History. "A new nation filled with restless humans looking for roots, certainty. A leader who could direct it, .no matter it has no past… So much to find the answers, to make it all add up."
"I think I’ll get a "Rose Tattoo"…lay it on me," his down to earth soul crossing
myth &reality, law &lawlessness, greed &avarice…　"He got the violin, "he told his congregation, like it was a Mahler ‘Symphony of a
thousand’, in E flat. "Repeat Repeat ‘.and I got the money…save me save me."
"And the first thing I knew he put the fear of God in me." says Lulu Raines, into
an Elmer Gantry slam dunk.….like an American hero evolving into his identity,
telling his story back to the audience, who in turn saw its own story…..
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Second Avenue El, Lizzie, his mother sharing what little they had. Inviting an
Afrp Americam neighbor in for tea…."She was my Bible" her son confessed, sprawled out on the floor, the victrolo spinning out the Caruso arias...
I thought all people were o.k. And if you did something for them, they were grateful. People’s lives are dealt around person &personality .Not their work. Like losing your identity to gain one….a movie star processed by the system from formulae…when you’re 19 years old, you thrive on it..…."　21　Always being in motion, finding a rhythm. ."Can you do the bars?" two shows a
day, 17 hours a day, driving 50 miles a day.…..Lang& Cravat’s" first pay check
three $ a week…syncopated routines, each working from opposite ends of the
bar, alternating back &forth, the "dance of the circus"　Full twisting giant swings around,, doubles triples,,, fly overs …Miss a cue without any saving grace of a net….,."We learned everything about tragedy. And we learned about heart.", a precursor about the way audiences look at society.　His first wife "the only woman in the circus who could go beyond bar tricks. Her mother &sister were like the topsy twins doing somersaults. The Ernsts…whether any relation to FDR’s "fireside chats" scribe Morrie? later the PR rep for the Dominican Republic playboy Ambassador, Portfiro Ruberoso…husband to be of the richest woman, heiress to the once Woolworth 5&10’s,Barbara Hutton, Archie Leach aka Cary Grant’s first or second?
　
A "Billy Budd"s opera yearnings, that Second Avenue East Bronx
voice…Rudyard Kipling’s Lord Douglas, a Lancaster ancestor, who perished in
the 1914 war. May have had the same gene..not the gene for the screen
"Sound of Music" director, Robert Wise attributed to the "Swede" when he first
heard that sound, .come from his Irish East Bronx larynx.
Not as crackling as Kings Highway’s Blossom Silverman, Beverly Sills. …her
mother like Lizzie, instilling the work ethic very early, extending their heir’s
reaches into the gold ring on the Coney Island Steeplechase Luna Park Santa
Monica pier merry go round.
"Going my way" was Der Bingle’s modus operandi, "Strangers on the train" Ole blue eyes crooning his chemistry for Sergeant Warden (Lancaster) "From here to Eternity" like kindred souls, merging their East Coast fates, destinies..　22
A parallel in Jimmy Cagney’s 125^th Street origin, Bogy’s ascent into those gangster roles…Dead End Angels with Dirty Faces G Men Public Enemy Number One…High Sierra …"do as I say, or you’re toast"
Archie Leach marketing Hebrew National franks and 50 cent kegs of beer, an acrobat himself, pitching his wares from stilts on the Coney Island boardwalk.
Jimmy Durante’s nasal sounding voice as the soundtrack "Sleepless in Seattle", Tom Hanks replicating the Grant role, Archie Leach meeting Deborah Kerr, atop the Empire State observation Or Windows on the World before the crazed gangsters from the Hamburg German cell planned hari kari, mowing down 3000. Human beings 9/11/01…..the nation’s intelligence system flawed, in not capturing their suicidal intent, murderous thinking brain waves. 　The friggen cunning of our global village, the conspirators original sin in our
midst. Yet it was always here, their DNA like encrypted E mail escaping our
electrifying cosmos.of King Kong James Bond flicks were but fantasies. A tell tale
grounded in Reality, an "escape" for those 3000 ambushed souls.　A psychedelic induced trance of Berlioz’s "Symphonique Fantastic", a Turkish inspired theme… moments before the Sultan orders "Take him to the gallows"　A la 21^st century tranquilizers, endless story conferences, "Sex in theCity" confabs, "The Sopranos" light years ahead with the cable, …but the real world ah that’s another disaster waiting to happen….　23
"A joy in the disclipine of performing… a glandular sensitivity…"y’ know what I’m trying to say….I give ‘em the old snake eye". His own visceral recognition of greatness.. his" Settlement House vision of the glorious city of the Light". 　"…Once you hit a note of truth, you can hear a bell ring"　Whether it’s the notes of Goethe’s "Faust in his quest for salvation or Bernie
Williams hitting a two run homer in the bottom of the 8^th against the Angels of
Anaheim, Gene Autry’s old franchise, the first game of the division playoffs in the
House that Ruth Built, the Yankee Stadium, within a schmaltz scent from the
Second Avenue sounds of the Lancasters, y’ know what I’m trying to say.
　
ENTER TO GROW IN BODY MIND AND SPIRIT DEPART TO SERVE BETTER YOUR GOD COUNTRY AND YOUR FELLOW MAN
Not the lobby inscription of Burt Lancaster’s all male Dewitt Clinton High but the
Tubby Ross’s Midwood High School built across the East River
in Brooklyn, across Harry Gideonse’s leadership college on land granted by the
Dutch family Van Nuys, the same Van Nuys who settled in the San Fernando
Valley of Southern California, folks..
　
The East Bronx’s denizen’s motto, his creed if you will, his gigs mission sounds
too maukish like an over worn cliché. "Still evil abounds".
9/11 the Holocaust… people can’t rage at the Universe so they turn on one
another…smouldering like lava raging out of a volcano…….. 　Lancaster knew he was growing old, the line being "when your back goes out
more often than you do…" but he wouldn’t go peacefully, Dylan’s "do not go quietly into the dark." Reminding us even more so when your life is evocative on the big screen, your own vanity of a photogenic image, like an instant mirror in the cosmos, a dream going down hill?　His Elmer Gentry dialogue reflection of his real life…"I want you so bad Sister Sharon, I’m in pain half the time. I’d like to tear those holy wings off you and make a real woman out of you. I’d show you what Heaven’s like… no golden stairways, or harp music…or silvery clouds. Just ecstasy comin’ and goin’…when are you going to make up your mind to take it?"　Meanwhile across the Hudson, New Jersey was having its comeuppance with their Senatorial race, the incumbent dropping out for ethical compromises, while the diva of the kitchen, the Martha Stewart, was having her own table of big dough explored by the same Congressional investigators that New Jersey Supreme Court 9 judges wrote was credible…the Republicans into their gig, appealing to the big Supreme Court…(Hold ‘yer breathe, folks….) History repeats itself, the Florida fiasco, the Court by one human, decided Florida’s presidential was not rigged for Jed Bush’s brother……the question is ah that is the weasel word… will it replicate itself?…"later gater"　2 party system goes to the Soul of the Democracy...Ernest Borgnine "Marty" cast in "From here to Eternity" passed away yesterday in Studio City,Ca at the age of 95.

(part I, Burt Lancaster, "An American Life", Kate Buford)