It breaks your heart may be a cliché in our digital 21st century

It breaks your heart may be a cliché in our digital 21st century, but the English – Spanish language cannot express the loss of a 24 year old Cuban basebaqll pitcher named Jose Fernandez, gone for the ages in a Miami motor boat accident this morning September 25, 20165.

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In what terms could a father grandfather tell his heires to be- a fifteen year old son, a grandson about the disaster and the loss of a star to be- at a 200 million dollars a year in future.

Are there any words in the rags to riches mythology of our Earthly lexicon that could a Cro Magnon Man describe characterize the loss. The Yankee nemesis David Ortiz of the Red Sox could not retire ,the culmination of his baseball career at Fenway.. Ted Williams  aura….2 wars, 400 batting average.

Howa 15 year old Havana made his realization into the MaimiMarlin recognition come true. The dream crashing, in those waters, his motor boat crashing, his entire myth of belie ving in his 24 year old passio and thrust.

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A shock heard thru the  the planet. Shedding tears, yet life continues, dreams resume. Contenders for the White House, a leadership in Politics. The sound and fury having 100 million potential viewers. While the Jose Fernandez dream vanishesfrom our consumer society midst...

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Babe Ruth,(the “Sultan of Swat: once a pitcher) Red Ruffing, Whitey Ford, Lefty Gomez, Whitlow Wyatt, Kirby Higbe, Sandy Koufax, Don Drysdale, Morton Cooper, Dizzy Dean………Bob Feller, Satchel Paige, Don Newcomb, Spud Chandler..

We weep noit only for Jose’s loved ones, but for ourselves…. A dream playing out crahes and in its crumbling, the aftermath is our torment unable to to find the words to express such a loss of a dream, the disappearance and vanishing of his unconscious and the promise is symbolizes in a Universe where  realized dreams come few and far in our technological society.

September25,2016  The City that never sleeps.

ONCE UP A Time” starring Howard “Slim” Hughes of Houston

ONCE UP A Time” starring Howard “Slim” Hughes of Houston, Texas, his father invented the oil artifice for those gushers and a fortune which enabled Slim to commute to Tinsel town and buy RKO from entrepreneur Joe Kennedy of Boston, putting Dore Schary in charge… the “Boys Town” screen writer to run the Fred Astaire, Ginger Rodgers studio on Melrose Avenue, in West Hollywood.

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Moving to post Korean War to “We have waited a long time for you Mister Conway” said the High Llama of Shangri-la (Sam Jaffe) a hundred and twenty five years old, his robe sweeping in those Swis Alp inds., greeting (Ronald Coleman)

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But the winds from those Swiss Alps have changed as the planet hifted gears and Sana  Monica, California, had its own Shangri-la apartments with an ocean view, where at eleven , your Flying Philosopher was embelished with his mother Esther, once of Jimmy Cagney’ steno (Pitmanm where at the age of 13 , she got her fist job in Black& Erlinger,  a Schubert competitor in vaudeville acts,, Esther a scholarship student (Rhetoric) inorl(speaking.4 languages)from the Bronx’s Morris Evening High School..on a scholarship to Hunter High School, but her older sister argued tht Esther sould go out to work, while she matriculated at Columbia...

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So there we were tottering down Ocean Avenue in Santa Monica, .from Shangri-la, past the Think Tank, toward the Public Library, and “HELLS ANGELS”, “Slim” produced of a “reel”film, starring Jean  Harlow…in the movie bibliographysector...

Passing the Rand think tank, even Betty Rowland, who owned A Main Street strip tease dancer, who oned a a bar on  the corner of Pico Boulevard, no to far from where we hustled Sunday’s L:os Angeles Times and Examine on weekends, that “Slim” had no grasp of destiny in casting “Hells Angels” and simply ended his own 

His airplane  crash …takeoffs and landings, our neighbor at Clover Dale, the air field next to the mte where he had practiced,some two ty years earlier, back of Douglas Aircraft on Pico., two blocks from 22nd and the motel, where we lived down away from McKinley Elementary (Mrs. Washburn) ad the tether ball court where we played…curses, bloody noses!...a Brooklyn New York accent!

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Yet in the here and now, “Slim” Mister Hughes not recognizing that destiny was playing out… to the pages of “Hell’s Angels” in  the newly built technology “doom” of a room, we nudged our mother Esther, pointing out the passage, where Jean Harlow post credits died abruptly amidst rumors…(hitching a ride on a truck)                                     

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Thereafter post Korean bloodshed on the 39th parallel, the Chinese ready to charge General Ridgeway’s 39thparallel..General MacArthur in Tokyo, we werehired by principal Harry Staufacher, taching Socal Studies to 7th and 9h graders  at Lindbergh Junior High in  North Long Bach..

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Not knowing that editor Sol Kaufler was a graduate of Brooklyn College, post World War2, and published al our autobiographical tinsel town sketches in the Long Bech Teacer’s Journal. Later a Journalism teacher at Reseda High, a Professor at Pierce Jr.College in Encino..

“Once upon a Moor, How to get a Yes”, the Male Lady Bugg,The Monkey from Mars… submitted to JFK at the White House, his creative “Mission to Moscow” playing out..

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In the meantime, “Slim” altered his focus from becoming a golf pr ad his attentions from the eighteen holes, and courting “Jinx”Falkenburg, pursued Richard Nixon’s family “Nixon burger” in Whittier, where the future President grew up, sitting on the bench at the school’s pigskin and TD’s field bench waiting…..

In loaning ****Nixon’s parents $50000 …the direct linear futuro multimillionaire  “I never met a man I couldn’t buy.”

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Helen Gahagan Douglas’s Congressional two year seat was up for grabs. The Nixon burger crowd tarnished her Democratic fervor with a “Red Communist” brush, Tricky becoming a true believer, the East Los Angeles Whittier LaHabra Fullerton orange grove populace was brainwashed into believing what thepundit’s saliva was dripping.

NBC’s Huntley and Brinkley unable to expose the repetitive and constancy of the bombardment morning noon and night… the constancy of lies and innuendo….stealing the electoral seat from actor Melvin Douglas’s wife. …

A Governor Huey Long scenario playing out. “Tricky”scribbling a Trojan Horse memo to “Duke’ Wayne,  

“Dick” admitted  to Duke Law School…years later, resigning his Presidency, after being impeached..

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“Slim” reminding us ****“I never met a man I couldn’t buy” ****

September 11, 2016.  the City that never sleeps

The 60 minutes segment yesterday of a miscarriage of justice.

The 60 minutes segment yesterday of a miscarriage of justice..aninnocent human being ,

abandoned to solitary confinement in a high resolution in tough prison for 35 years, with a one hour recess out in the yard, gives rise to Paul Muni playing out “The Prisoner of Shark Island” many moons ago when our planet was in birth pangs of a depression and it was a desperate time to put food o n the table for a nation of first blood immigrants.

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In all the hiccups and sweat of cyberspace, the social networks of Twitter and Facebook, the hacking lyon thievery of technology gone astray, CBS’s minute by minute torture of an African ancestor by a sadistic 

Southern prosecutor trying to make a name for himself, a jury of all Caucasians, 

Convinced beyond a reasonable doubt that this child of share croppers was to be put to a lingering

Spiritual death for over 35 years in in solitary confement for a murder of a Caucasian man, whose lawn he gardened. A crime he never com mitted…

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Growing up in East Brooklyn, we were conscious of Murder Inc….the Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegal gang wars wars ,gangsters being pushed out of Coney Island hotel windows. But for a “Fugitive from a Chain Gang” being embraced by a systemto render equal justice before the frailty of all believers is beyond

any  “stacking the deck “  for 600 million victims of Hitler’ persecution”

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Not to rub in the system’s ego trip gone blind when new evidence of a consciousness of those culprits…the consciousness of their “swagger” ,married to the  system, they denied the hundreds 

of hundreds of thousands $, which the State’s Constitution,  provided in instances of miscarriage of justice..

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To hold up the mirror to such tyranny and infamy in our own land of immigrants from  near and far, is b beyond compassionand empathy?.

Where is Clarence Darrow?

The Scriptures “we are our brother’s keeper”.                                   

Augst 5, 2016…..CBS’s “60 minutes”                                                          

Springtime for Hitler

“Springtime for Hitler” sprung out of our unconscious.

…. the moment on hearing the music station’s announcer ”we lost Gene Wilder  24 hours ago at 

years…..”

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Zero Mostel, his co star and a genuiis in his own right, were hilarious in their chemistry. The producer and star, obliged to discover a scenario that was doomed for misshapen failure and bankruptcy, so they both could get a windfall from their ”Springtime” investors…

“Mein Kampf”! (The Eagle’s Nest, Berchesgarden, Germany)

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Where else on  the planet could Gilda Ratner’s Gene Wilder discover his “genie” gone , let out of the  

Swami bottle, flowing into a Dr. Freud reversal of the energy needed for his brain waves transcending reversing course,liberating the libido into anticipation, flowing into the marketplace…Nor Yale Law New Haven, Connecticut…Yale Law School, Dean Lou Pollock …

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The Chairman of the Philosophy Department was related toPortland Hoffer, comedian Fred Allen’s spouse, and Artie Hershkowitz’s sister, the agent,. Was relatedto Portland. Hence the ‘ Springtime for Hitler” has come completre circe…Our “Mozart and Mushroom Barley” debuted  at the College Book Store, the Chapel street leading 

to the Bard’s  Stratford upon the Avon Chapel Street across the pond.                                                     V

Joe Laurie, Jr.  Senator Claghorn, hius widow Gilda Ratner ,overjoyed in weeping…waiting at the Pearly Gates for Gene Wil.der’s prence in their “Heaven is on the way to it” .

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Who could forget Zero Mostel waiting for his co star’s arrival.

To join the alliance at Yale’s Philosophy department in New Haven, Kingman Brewster, the aristocratic President from Harvard Law School, lest we forget the Artie HershkowitzPortland Hoffa rapport wth the Philosophy Department Chairman.

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Having rubbed shoulders with Zero Mostel at tennis court’s ringside (Beverly Hills tennis club) may we submit our Bradeisbrief, fore his chemistry and passion he shared with Gene Wilder. Yet lauding Mel Brooks own generosity in sharig his own “2000 year old manm” with these two geniuses.

May “Springtime for Hitler” live forever.

August 30, 2016. Gene Wilder at the pearly gates…..Gilda Ratner Zero Mostel ‘s souls at the Perly Gates…

Art dictator", his spoof on Adolf Hitler, with JackOaie idetifingwith Benito Mussolini.

Art dictator", his spoof on Adolf Hitler, with JackOaie idetifingwith Benito Mussolini.

What strikes an aging human bveing is the discerning ability to fashion the Burt Lancaster network of our BVrnum nd Baily riptides crossing the Continent. From those FDR depression bound laden yesterdays, unlike running to away to the circus….the reaql realiutyof our elven year old year left handed second grade minority scribbler caught up for the rest of his days, iun the whirl of right handed penmanship…

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The interconnections mayu sound vain and not wanting to expound anything like an ego trip our circus bound viajo began in the Loma apartments, the corridor bathroom of the Loma partm,ents, Venice ,Califoria.

The Metro Goldwytn Mayer studio in nearby Culver City, placed an article in the LA Tim,es about a search for an actor in the screen aDapatation of “The Year;ling”, a nar4ative byMargaret Kinnan Rawlingds. The role of Jody,a young boy who confronts a fawn seems to our years one of the main threads of her narrative.

Second, our one room apartment was surrounded by the pikes and dams parallel to those in Italy’s own Veice..the canals ad boats bubbling in those musical Mujssoliniambiance.

Here the scene was a roller rink beyond the canals where Charlie Chaplin found his persona. His pantamine gave whirl to his derby, mustache, baggy pegged pants, big shoes, and a cane. 

A tested persona that stood the test of time…a young daughter bride namede OonO’Neikl…after Paulette Goddard…several children.

Jack Oakie identifyin v with the aforementioned Mussolini.

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Howqever our narrative our own narrative  spins to Westwoodvillage, the home of Sonja Henie’s ice capades and the campous of the Universityof California at Los A ngeles where our older brother of eight years, tred to geta tennis scolarsip. B ut his academics were’t up t the aspiring and beuth of that scholarly g naRRheritage. And he returned to those Easwt Flabush environs of Brooklyn….Remembering how he cheated in the Habla El espanol finals of Ed Sullivan’s c moic Sam Levenson,. But was taked out of flunmkig him byhis scial Studies aunt Sela..

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But on that MGMCulver City West Washington stage of dowty ambitious mommas, their teeming nervous boys in hand, the scene had another movie ,going through their ..”lights camera action”

Harold Arlen’s score (a ladder day Barbara Streisamnd coach) for Judy Garland’s “OVER THE RAINBOW

* Wizard of Oz” captivating the trial audience..but on the stage in 1939…E.. Harburg tugging at our pants, we in turn hitting my mother Esther’s arm, skiddoing into West Washington Boulevard..the bus…back to our  canals and one Venice room digs, with the bathroom in the hall, the Loma Apartments.!

*E.Y. (Yipsel) Harburg lyrics for Eternity ..”We’re off to see the Wizard” WW2 troops…

August 27,2016…trransceding our Big Apple origins