The mecca of “One flew over the cuckoo’s nest”…the Lavender Hill Mob incognito””….regardless of the courses(JackNMicholson, a New Jersey golf caddy in his prior life)“divinity”, the smoke signals were hovering over the Hollywood Hills and the nightmare back in the moneyed telephone lines of the 5 sisters as they conspired to commit their older brother Max to the closed wards of an insane asylum, Islip, Long Island.
A demonic conspiracy, rivaling Ezra Pound’s poetic incarnation.
“Right Roscoe? Right!”
II
Whatever their unholy alliance of penis envy, brother Max scribing a letter to the current occupant of the White House. “All he needed was emotional support,” said the shrink , handing Uncle Max’s dossier to his nephew.
“All he needed was emotional support,” repeated the witch doctor.”You’re the only relative who cared. Where were the relatives who opposed the trumped up indifference of his sisters who visited their brother once a month in a hired limo.
“Ladies in retirement” playing out?”
III
Self serving morality. Aunt Carrie building her mansion on Long Island Sound, transporting her cart of flowers from 125th Street in Harlem. Preserving the buds and bulbs in her lighthouse. Her drive and ego trip into Goldfarb flowers,her catering (CBS) store on East 57th Street and ThirdAvenue, two blocks down from Sutton Place.
Aunt Carrie’s Freeport manse off North Long Beach Avenue, was fought out as n immigrant ‘s success peak..onedaughter omitting suicide, the other suffocating in a fire.
IV
Poor Uncle Max didn‘t have a Chinaman’s chance, forging hisown immigration . Not a support system among the alleged sisters, to show him the way.
Right Major?
Right!
V
A suffocating self serving “the Ladies in Retirement” playing out their phony endearment, while their older brother,diminutive Uncle Max, caught up in the family’s tyrannyand hypocrisy, held unto those steel bars that identified hisimprisoned universe.
VI
In attempt to find liberation and possibly enlightenment, our mother migrated to Southern California, knowing her older son was an bully, always seeking acknowledgement by domination and suppression. His womanizing but an encore in his self serving gratification.
The business of fantasy and cinema in the studios was beyond his ken.
MGM and Louis B. Bayer. Paramount and 103 year old AdolphZuker. 20th Century and the Mexican War veteran Daryl Zanuck. Warner Brothers and Harry, Jack, Sam nd Albert.Universal Studio and the German Carl Laemmle… Columbia and Harry Cohn. Republic Studios….Vera Ralston and her tycoon husband.……cowboy “shoot em upevil”, with Gene Autry, Andy Devine, Smiley Burnett
From Kansas City, Missouri….Walt Disney and Mickey andMinnie Mouse. Snow white and the 7 Dwarfs. Stokie’s“Fantasia” Sam Goldwyn studio in Hollywood’s “Wuthering Heights” Danny Kaminsky Kaye” “HansChristian Anderson….. Monogram in the Valley, ‘B’ Michael Shayne crime flicks. Charlie Chaplin’s studio onLa Brea. The United Artists alliance: Douglas Fairbanks, Mary Pickford (Gladys Smith) and Charlie. RKO (Howard “Slim” Hughes)…Desi Lu on Melrose..(Desi Arnaz, Lucille Ball)
VII
In this mist, the Cream Cheese Bandit into his own bullying demoniac, atop his Mulholland Drive
hi rise status “copter” pad, he drove to Trader’s Joe in Rancho de Mirage for two jars of blackberry jam….not stumbling on shoplifting a Philadelphia cream cheese while he was a“batch”, a single stud playing out his Chief Special Rehab,serving time at Treasure Island, near the end of World War2...
From his perch, the Cream cheese bandit played out his paranoia…”That Tilden High School basketballcoach(1939) writing me off. “You’re not a Varsity team player”….a half a century later, the cream cheese bandit went off on a diatribe, fit for the Californiafreeways. “All his yesterdays surrounded by selfless basketball heroes…..LIU’s Dolly
King, Ozzie Shectman, Stan Waxman, the Rader twins,(Madison High School) selfless magicians whosegenius coach Clair Bee cud mold into a full court press. Defending and attacking the basket nets, once in the paint..
An incorruptible tale of morality, from the cradle to the grave playing out …….
1/27/ 15 the “Blizzard that closed down the 127 year old subway system” The City that neversleeps.
