Rip van Winkle in his self imposed trance in the Legend of Sleepy Hollow
didn’t have to contend with digital I pods and downloading data from I tunes
which unconscionably put Apple’s Steve Jobs unto a medical furlough....
II
Whether the stress was all that consuming? Worth Silicon Valley’s thrust into
the measure of the man?
The Mid East’s man’s inhumanity to man in turmoil...the Boston Tea Party’s chain of causation be the catalyst for change? No less in Madison Wisconsin, the teachers pension fund found vulnerable to attack..
Bogy in “Sahara”...Tyrone Power “Suez Canal” James Mason “Five graves to Cairo” “The Egyptian” Victor Mature Gene Tierney Jean Simmons...”Cleopatra” Liz Taylor with Richard Burton as Marc Antony.
Could the golden age of Hollywood be prescient? A for taste of their collaborations into the futuro..
The founding fathers into a rebellion beyond Jean Jacques Rousseau’s tumbling Louis XIV and his Marie Antoinette?.
Norma Sheaer’s “If they wantt bread let them eat cake”.
III
*DaleWasserman’s “The impossible dream” Mitch Leigh’s music, Joe Dorian’s lyrics
Peter O’Toole in Richard Kiley’s vocalize “The man from La Mancha”..... ...
Could Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler” have anything to say for herself?
Her own rebellion against the tide of her time in Scandinavia 19th century.
IV
Therein lies the great rage, Don Quixote. Almost maybe perhaps
“ Humpty Dumpty” has fallen off the wall...
“To dream the impossible dream...to fight the unbelievable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow To run where the brave not go.
To right the unrightable wrong..
“This is my quest to follow that star. No matter how hopeless.
..no matter how far”
Beverly Hills Tennis Club.... *Dale Wasserman, 1949’50
The Big Apple, February 18, 2011
