The collective consciousness begs an Aristotlean inquiry into the violent end of a Sarah Lawrence graduate Ronni Chasen, playing out her Waterloo as an “All about Eve”publicist among charred aggressions gone sour ...
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Amidst the savagery of competitive juices searching for an audience thru 4 decades of a
driven psyche (carrying her sweetener) in her trappings as she sought out collaborative alter egos
for her actor song writer composer clients. .
Goethe could have told her that it all goes back to childhood. The Shiek of Araby befuddling his true believers tn their fifth grade innocense.... carrying on for seven decades of masking sore loser gambling.... blown away by his dissembling ego trip...
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She hadn’t been born when Budd Shulberg scribbled “What makes Sammy run?” but since he was coming off a high as the tennis champ of Pismo Beach, he had nothing to lose... his soul into an x ray calibration of passions running abut on roller coaster images.
“I’m ready for my closeup mister DeMille” says Gloria Swanson as William Hoilden’s body
floats in her pool, her state of mind oblivious to what was playing out.
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Turning left unto North Whittier Drive from Sunset (a short cut to Wilshire), Ronni named after Dave Chasen, the restauranter from Beverly Boulevard down aways from where Milton Holmes, the manager of the Beverly Hills Tennis Club plotted his “Mr.Lucky” scenario for Cary Grant seven decades earlier.
Frank Capra Horace McCoy Ernest Pascal Nat Perrin Milo Frank Joel Adler Bill Gargan Donald Woods Arthur Marx Humprey Bogard Willie Wyler Billy Wilder Budge Patty had all come and gone. But Ronni’s left hand turn unto “Dead End” takes your breath away..
Unfurling her ubiquitous taste of celluloid unconscious and poetry. .
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Where could her support system have gone wrong? “ *You haven’t heard the last of me”
Short circuiting her larger than life empathy...those Big Apple yearnings into Riverdale and Sarah Lawrence’s feminine ideals .Her father a real estate businessman, her mother a home body, raising two children.
Was their bad faith in the sembling that led MGM to wheel deal its prize library of film and celluloid archives. The brain convolutions among insiders would cause United Artists like Douglas Fairbanks Charlie Chaplin Mary Pickford (“Gladys Smith”) to throw uip their arms.To make a profit among a torrent of red ink theatrics...
Fatty Arbuckle the Black Dahlia Ramon Navarro Gig Young Bugsy Siegal James Dean Senator Ribert Kennedy had a doomed reality..But here a force of sparkling nature with a New York accent, maintained an indomitable air.
Her “Cinderella” :Alice in Wonderland” “Robin Hood, Prince of Thieves” “Wall Street 2" Cher’s “*Burlesque” Morgan Freeman’s ”Driving Miss Daisy” “The Golden Pond” with Henry Fondas’s “aging isn’t for sissies” , paired with Katherine Hepburn as his caretaker wife.
“Shakespeare in love”..... .
Riverdale’s divine promise ....November 21, 2010
