The Flying Philosopher: 2016

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?

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.

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”.

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

‘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

Jackie Robinson

“Jackie Robinson here”, said the grandson of a sharecropper who migrated to Pasadena City College and then across the San Fernando Valley’s Hollywood Hills to Laurel Canyon to Sunset Boulevard and Hilgard (sorority row) the UCLA campus in Westwood Village…a four star letterman, regardless of his skin pigment, his eye and hand coordination, playing ping pong in the basement of the men’s gym was a foretaste of his breaking the color line with the Brooklyn Dodgers, stealing home plate in a fury of dust bowl swagger…..December 19,2016 The City that never sleeps.

Although Max Arno, the larger than life talent coordinator of Harry Cohn’s Columbia Pictures

Although Max Arno, the larger than life talent coordinator of Harry Cohn’s Columbia Pictures, two blocks off the Sunset Strip, the War to end all wars had ended, he flipped the silver coated disc in the air like was pretending to be a UCLA quarterback a k Bob Waterfield, the better half of “Slim’s(Howard Hughes) Jane Russell, the glamour girl of Van Nuys High School in the Valley…(Robert Redford ,our student)

The Cream Cheese bandit and his Name Detective father of the Surrogate’s Court in t5he downtown Court and Montagu Streets in Brooklyn, had recorded his bequest for job at the3 studio, listing his accomplishments playing tennis with the director of Lost Horizon” at the Beverly Hills tennis club.

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“Bandit would you want to play baseball with us scrubs. Bill Gargan ( once of Park Slope, Brooklyn College librarian, sharing the same Gargan) Budge Patty, Arthur Marx, Groucho’sson. Sidney Chaplin, Archie Leach (Cary Grant), Milo Frank the agent, behind “The diary of Ann Frank”, bridge playing Nat Perrin, Donald Woods, Horace McCoy, Alan Curtis, **Ray Stark, Ernest Pascal (the president), Billy Wilder, Humphrey Bogard (Bogy) Cy Howard, Jack Cushingham (tennis pro)Harold Preacher, ‘King of the bon bons”

Greg Bautzer, Jerry Geisler, (Errol Flynn, Charlie Chaplin notoriety), John Levee, Sidney and Harold Buchman, “The impossible dream” Dale Wasserman, John Garfield (Julie Garfinkle) Michael Blankford (The Juggler), Arthur Drumett, Don Castle, Robert Blumoffe, Phi Gersh, Irwin Shaw (Young Lions) Glbert Roland (“Amigo”), George Willner, Ray Miland(The Lost Weekend),Milton Holmes (Mr. Lucky) Harold Hecht,Albert Marx, Sonny Fotre, Herby Flam, Burt Lancaster (From here to Eternity), Kirk Douglas (The Champion), Solly Biano,Bill Orr, Ronnie Lubin, WillieWyler (Best years of our lives, Mrs. Miniver, Ben Hur)…. Sam Briskin, Jeff Chandler, Sidney and Harold Buckman, Robert Rossen (All the King’s Men) Robert Penn Warren) Elliot Nugent (James Thurber, “The male Animal)”), Sam Spigal (Lawrence of Arabia, Bridge of River Kwai, Doctor Zivago, Fanny and Alexandria))Nat Pendleton, $11 million David Geffen, the William Morris agency officeBoy! Zero Mostel (Springtime for Hitler), Arthur Gilbert, Gig Young, Mel Brooks, Sidney Harmon, Nick Conte, Peter Lorre, Paul Lukas, Allan Joslyn, Kent Taylor..

Boy of the Name Detective’s “What’s in a name?”

Shelly Winters, Evelyn Keyes, Sidney Skolsky’s “The Good Life from the N.Y. Post”

Of the those Olivia deHaviland born yesterdays , Evelyn Keyes stopped the Cream Cheese Bandit outside the men’s locker room. “What do you do for a living, Bandit?”

“I’m into finance,” he responded, lying up to his teeth, knowing Max Arno was tossing his silver coated Coney Island photo and words disc to talent at Columbia Studio, Max Arno, tossing the disc like a Filipino yoyo. “We got an opening in the mail room,.You available?” he asked the WW2 Chief Specialist (A),Treasure Island, under the Golden Gate’s span, the cable cars up from Market Street’s ‘Original Joe’s…..

**Raymond Chandler once wrote” to be very poor and very beautiful is most probably a moral failure than an articulate success. Shakespeare would have done well in any generation because he would have refused to die in a corner; he would have taken the false goods and made them over….

He would have hated refinement as such, because it is always a withdrawal, ad he was much too tough

to shrink from anything.”

It’s been only the second time, your writer has been able to capture your effective and radiant spirit.

Therefore may I close, in wishing you the best of all possible act twos…”

November 28, 2016 The City that never sleeps

Between the two Henry’s

Between the two Henry’s… the actor and star of “Grapes of Wrath”, the stirring dust bowl odysseys this “Oaky” family, in their quest to discover a life style and sanctuary as they ride their Model A Ford…a clunker of six cylinders toward the Father Serra non narcissistic Spanish retreats and monasteries in

in the interior or coast of California, pop culture and commercialism down the road of wars and depression, before our Democracy got a handle on optimism, these immigrants in their quest...

Crossing Death Valley, Colorado’s Grand Canyon, the great dam, the Petrified Forest, the Alberquerke New Mexico Indian selling their tri colored blankets, outside the train station.

The other Henry is the former Henry Kissinger of Germany and the Bronx tenements, who migrated into the hierarchy of academia. Harvard University, teaching as his quest realized itself with a part time role the President JFK ad full time with “Tricky Dick” Nixon as Secretary of State in the UCLA Halderman Erlichman “honest man” White House.

“Please come back Henry, when you’re ninety four,” said the Sunday CNN host, Wolf Blitzer:

November 23, 2016. “Giving Thaks”, The flying philosopher’s two Henrys.

Little did the Fuhrer knowing as he lay dying in his Berlin bunker

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Little did the Fuhrer knowing as he lay dying in his Berlin bunker, within an arms length distance from his mistress Eva Braun, the RAF-USAF bombs off their LAKENHEATH RAF-USAF base, outside Cambridge and Duxford’s Battle of BrainSpitfire field, that Adolf, her “Dolfy” had pessimistic “God is dead” Nietzsche on their bunker short wave , his stream of pessimism lauding their never to be forgotten mission…creating the third Reich, the Aryan race above all…”God is dead” I

”Mein Kampf ‘s nemesis was Prime Minister Winston,, of 10 Downing Street, his office of Prime Minister, was a larger than life human named Winston Churchill.

That Sir Winston’s mother was born in Brooklyn Heights, as well as her sister ,later known as Lady Macmillan, her husband, the publisher of Sir Winston, the Prime Minister, who rose to becoming to becoming the nemesis for the Fuhrer and his Third Reich thrust into Europe, Africa, until he confronted those Russian winters and Uncle Joe Stalin and FDR’s Yalta hi jinks.

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So there you have it. The Brooklyn flavor of identifying with the underdog , a Bedford Avenue miracle drift hanging over the knothole kids 55 cent heroes taking on all enemies in the confines of Ebbets Field.

If the Fuhrer could recognize the “Over the Rainbow” from the” Wizard of Oz”, would he could he modify his treadmill suicide pact in that Berlin bunker, his Nietzsche strung life weaved into a suicide pact with his mistressEva Braun, the Brooklyn born heritage of Churchill’s mother and aunt’s origin, out of Brooklyn Heights, their souls, coming back to haunt him and his Eva in their grasping moments, the tone of their Berlin Bunker, not conscious what was playing out from 10 Downing Street, London, England..

November 17, 2016 The City that never sleeps.

Living out their final moments in his Berlin bunker

Living out their final moments in his Berlin bunker, the Fuhrer (known too his amigos) Adolf Hitler). But to his mistress Eva Braun as “Dolfy”. But with or without his mustachio, the Fuhrer, not unlike Beethoven before him (the ode to joy, the 9thSymphony), stuffed cotton in his ear drums, Napoleon cannonsbombarding his brother’s cellar where he fled to escape the blasts reechoing in his growing deafness.

But the Fuhrer’s mistress would have none of this. “Dolfydarling,” her antenna into the planet’s electronic age, her Deutsch electrons into dialing the Apollo theater’s Charley Parker’s Kansas City saxophone. Bebop’s horn’s sound into Harlem and 125th Street, the flowered “My dahling,” said the (“in the Fuhrer’s face”) crushed in his waning moments that all he and Eva lived for was literally going down the drain. A self destructiveness they shared since those Munich highlights singing and drinking beer in those halls……

Hitler’s father figure Chancellor Hindenburg going down the drain….

His raison de etre finito . Who would remember 6 million Jews gasping their last breaths in concentration camps.! Theirworld…. our planet will no longer remember ,Eva.”

“The diary of Ann Frank” Verbotton!, Adolf’s arms reaching to his mistress’s head, his lips pressed against hers, Winston Churchill’s fleet from Duxford and the RAF-American flying fortresses from

Lakenheath RAF-USAF base, across the Channel….

November 16, 2016 The city that never sleeps..Part 1.

The annals of our Democracy may have been led by George Washington, Jefferson...

The annals of our Democracy may have been led by George Washington, Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Paul Revere , John Hancock, a Colin Kelly to be later, these pioneers hoisted our Democracy, but Chaim Solomon financed the …. Put up the “dough ray me.”

The inalienable rights of man’s UTOPIA!

The Edinboro Scotland double-decker bus passing Robert Louis Stevenson’s digs, the same flats where James Bond (“007”) wasborn years later, long after Spencer Tracy and Frederic Marchmade their MGM symbiosis at the studio in Culver City, California. Doctor Jekyll and Mister Hyde playing out…..

The Cream Cheese bandit from his fifth floor elevator digs across town The Maylord Apartments into his post WW 2 service was bound o his 30 years with the Los Angeles Recreation and parks, coming within 30 days of his pension, when the shell shock of accumulating all those yesterdays toward his pension, when at the last momentinute, the attrition got to his cardiac syndrome, the veins crashing, his burial at Forest Lawn cemetery in the Hollywood Hills..

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But the reminiscing of those yesterdays ends with the explosive election of another Queens born native of the Big Apple President elect Donald Trump. His persona into naming his support players into fulfilling the role created by the Founding Fathers some two hundred years ago.

The dawn of our Democracy, the 13 colonies, and the election of George Washington as our first President.

A miracle being born…The Constitution, the Bill of Rights. A tribute to the birth of a nation and a process aligned with humanity’s inimitable rights of man..I

Meanwhile actor Ronald Reagan, the 41Prresident to become, was cast as the Notre Dame quarterback “the Gipper” in the Warner Brothers Pat O’Brien scenario.

Walking across the Burbank lot, carrying a larger than life photo of the “Gipper”, the former sports director for Wrigley’s Chicago Cubs, spring training at Santa Catalina Island, little knowing he was treading space as Governor of California and President of the United States.

“Win one for the Gipper” was the locker room chant, as his teammates mourned his passing during the football campaign at Notre Dame.

Which brings to mind, the President Elect Donald R. Trump’s father’s apartments near Coney Island on 20th Avenue, Fred Trump leasing them with or Uncle Joe’s Sterling Advertising .

David Selznick, later the producer Scarlet O’Hara’s role in “Gone with the Wind”…the Vivian Leigh of whom the President to be Donald J. Trump “Vivian Leigh” utterance, during the Republican 2016 primaries..

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What Ho! “Vivian Leigh” Phoning her back stage at New Haven’s Schubert during the General Westmoreland invasion of South Vietnam, our argument in the United State Senate “Publication of the Government Television Act of 19676,pages91…..

*I DON’T GIVE A DAMN, SCARLET’

*Clark Gable’s utterance “Gone with the Wind”

November 14, 2016 The City that never sleeps.