Fu Manchu the Green Hornet&Kato the Lone Ranger&Tonto..Lamont
Cranston“the Shadow knows”&Margo.. Sergeant Preston of the Yukon.
Batman&Robin Clark Kent&Lois on high alert..the clock winding down....
II
The former Western Union telegram urchin...delivering the World War 2 wires from the War department to the next of kin....Gold star mothers and fathers....widows...brothers and sisters....
in and around the reality scene of the Avenue H subway in Flatbush.....
He saw first hand the culmination of a loved one’s loss. bearing the sorrow. No experience from the cradle to the grave could ever replicate that doom.
Oh sure you could revel in Mickey Rooney’s “The Human Comedy” by Saroyan...his role
bearing the Western Union telegrams .simulating reality.
But this was like being a witness to the lethal missing in action. A loss of a loved one that would leaves a scar on the survivor’s unconscious for all time..
How does any scorecard measure that loss?
III
The ambush on a Arizona House of Representative and our law of the land
exemplifies“some humans grow up at 21 but are not buried till they’re seventy.”
IV
How far can one push the envelope?
V
Daryl Zanuck coming off his war time experience visualized the bigotry,,,
“Oxbow Incident” Henry Fonda as the catharsis. Those unquiet quiet minds
morphing nto a lynch mob
“String him up at the highest tree”......
Civil discourse trashed.. rhetoric and passions riu amok.“Pass the smelling salts,
Sheriff. Time’s a wasting on these wasted folk.”
Where’s Henry Fonda when we need him?
Revisiting the “Gipper’s looney tunes” January 9,2011
