daughter Mia’s mojo deservedly, from the University of Connecticut’s Board of Trustees.
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A commencement addreess at the school for performing arts May 9th. Not that it wasn’t a scarce penny to have coach John Calhoun and his Kemba Walker of the Bronx and an Apollo theater talent dominate the NCAA March Madness, Walker entering the NBA draft. ..after three years
matriculating for his recognition. (take it for what itis worth from a Storrs appointed philosopher... Hartford&Waterbury branches)
But Mia Farrow’s nature...her own spiritual quest in many ways. Didn’t she and her
sister Priscilla, make the “hirdy gurdy”to Tibet with the Beatles (Harrison Lennon) a nirvana with Marashishi Mahesh as her garu........
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Yet what does that viajo have to do with the Mia Farrow, the actress, and scion of the family playing out their connections for the ordinary and mundane life that
Aaron Copeland’s “common man” is playing out.....
Did Queen Elizabeth invite Mia to trhe nuptials next week at Westminister Abbey.Surely her credentials are beyond credibility. Her grandfather into the pedigree. A Lord in his day. A barrister by his powdered wig.,the family planting their roots in Austrailia.
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When “Woody Allen” replicated his “Annie Hall” Diane Keaton with Frank Sinotra’s ex,,,Andre Previn’s frau, did his “I’ll never write a funny movie again” did his consciousness grasp the implications for a kid schooled in Yeshiva..... “sprechen” Yiddish.. raised on the lower East side, living on Avenue K and 14th Street in Flatbush,... a block from Stanley Kubrick’s “Space Odyssey”(Kubrick’s supermarket) attending Midwood High School...NYU... CUNY know better....
Mid Farrow’s trappings were part and parcel of his own divinity.
Admiringly he didn’t know what he was doing at Dorothy Chandler’s pavilion Puccini’s “Giccoi Schicci” As Seymour Konigsberg- a work in progress- like all of the voodoo into our mad cap cosmos of “What’s new pussycat?” “Everything you wanted to know abou tsex (but were afraid to ask)
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Everything being relative, mister Konigsbery-Allen submerged himself into his ouvre...schtick with Max Liebvman’s “Show of shows”.
Sculpting jokes for Sid Caesar, Imogene Coco, Carl
Reiner Howie Morris..screening dialects... indiscreet camp......
long before Colonel Khadafi emerged in his Libvyan garb......
Tthe outlandish maneuvers our revolving planet takes.....
hedge funds... derivatives.. bankruptcies foreclosures unemployment.. the normal ways of doing business was becoming extinct
Unconventional thinking depending on how you look at it.
So “Hannah and her sisters” was de facto Mia Farrow and her transcendental vision and her
alliance with Simone de Beauvoir’s “Second Sex”
No “Second Sex” here.,Cheetah!
“Right Jane?” (Maureen O’Sullivan) as Tarzan (Johnny Weismuller) garbed in his loincloth presses the drapes aside in their uppity African love nest.
“There’s a jungle out there, Jane.”
Cheetah cutting an apish figure, stripping a banana, hius ape like lechers counting his calories but not aggressively delving into his master’s psyche....nor for that matter Jane’s less complicated one.
He was too smart an ape to go that way. Wasn’t it enough for the genome...the genetic coe to
spell out the similarities and differences in the networking of humans and their appearances
thru the ages...
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So Seymour Konigsberg aka Woody Allen pressed his luck...a role as a licorice stick auteur a funny man living with a 30 year neurosis, his witch doctor moonshing those 3 decades of love hate relationships. discarding layers of scathing flesh.
A redundancybase? Was Seymour- Woody identifying with Ingmar Bergman? La Dolche Vita’s Fellini?
A renaissance man on a Leo Tolstoy wave length...his yearning need... capturing visions: images dialogue of Charlie Chaplin in futuro. A father figure to Mia Farrow’s adopted Korean daughter Soon-Yie Previn.,his third wife....
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Broadway Danny Rose” yields a nostalgic utopia at the Kent theater on Coney Island Avenue and ‘H’, two blocks away from Woody’s turf on Avenue K.and 14th Street two blocks from the BMT subway and Wingate (Midwood) Field where Murray Eisenstadt’s tennis teams practiced...
Here at the Kent he earned his legacy, casting Morty Gunty as an groovy insider (Morty lived on Avenue H near Ocean Parkway) a Borscht Belt comic and secondary teacher playing out
the role of a substitute teacher...
He later appeared wan and pale at the Sunset Strip’s M ocambo .,exiting soon thereafter from
the mileau we shared as students at P.S. 217 and Midwood High School.
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“The purple road to Cairo” had no pretensions and was n’t as autobiographical...but again as the Lajos Egri disciple claimed “He no longer wanted to make funny films”
An endangered species..Indeed Cheetah...... Ernest Lubitsch Greta Garbo Melvyn Douglas
Billy Wilder shedding tears in their retirement.
Mentor Egri in his Brentwood salon boasted of fine tuning Paddy Chayefsky’s scenarios, and while punching the clock at MGM. .
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“Bananas” “”Casino Royale” a James Bond spoof..a Chubby Brocoli convoluted 007,the calculus disorienting Bond’s cool ... “Dr No”never looking back.
Edgar’s dsughter Candace Bergen.. Tony Randal..”Play it again, Sam” the 5th dimension playing.
Shades of Ring Lardner,Jr “Mash”the hilarious l medical encampment on the Korean peninsula led by a “Three Stooges”mea culpa (Moe Curly Larry.Hoiward, once of Bath Beach)
Not that far from the Kent
theater off Coney Island Avenue trolly tracks.
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“Unbelieable Murder Mystery” may have been the turning point when Diane Keaton of Verdugo Hills High School in Tujunga was dissed. Mia replacing her
The Keqton’s divine presence in “Anmie Hall” was in our eyes a revelation.to the third power.. .. .
Frank Capra directing Katherine Hepburn Jean Arthur Claudette Colbert would give the comedians the “Oscar” for her light touch. and killer instinct. As an exponent to rhe third quatrain....exhuming “Annie Hall”...shedding skins, not unlike the banana Cheetah was peeling Mia Farrow’sa maternal abode in her grapevine.
“You have to dig deep to strike banana oil, Cheetah.
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Whether Mia Farrow will entrap her own legacy, her state of mind” is an enlightened Zen Buddhism born of her alliance with visionaries who went their own way, never selling out to the machine they were engaged to..
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“Manhattan” seems to capture the love hate relationships in the guise of an older man having a bonding with a seventeen year old yung lady. Finding pleasure in the epherma of his
passing days.
Life’s absurdities deeply dug into the planet, our galaxy plagued by a pop culture and the inane craze of the sit com mentality our humanity books,
The inability to feel pleasure...Indeed Cheetah. ....
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Tarzan aka Johnny Weismuller Olympic swimming fame (nee Bruce Bennet’s
103 year old Santa Monican real estaenik when he was wasn’t before the “lights camera action)”“offered Jane the Irish soda bread of her karma..
“It’s a jungle out there, Jane,” he repeated., pressing the slide doors aside.... Cheetah’s cue to to
piggy back Weismuller’s shoulders.....the two becoming Tarzan of the Apes...grasping the grapevine
Flowing thru the air...over the African flora&fauna quicksand cannibal reality scene.......
“Yaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa”.
The University of Connecticut Performing Arts, Storrs, Ct...
April 20,2911.
