"A pom pom girl in disguise you’re not," quoteth Pepe Le Moko

"A pom pom girl in disguise you’re not," quoteth Pepe Le Moko (Jean Gabin) as he swung his telescope from his Casbah base in Algiers, framing his scope on Gibraltar, his infra red lense, nailing the monkeys leaping atop the tourists who were scanning Pepe Le Moko’s North Africa Casbah of Jean Gabin in his role of Pepe Le Moko.

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As Tarzan aid to Jane from atop his jungle tree penthouse, no visual aids handy, spreading the drapes apart. "There’s a jungle out there, Jane."
Not that Hedy LaMarr was a Jungle frau like Maureen O’Hara....Mia Farrow’s mother and mother in law to "New York New York" Frank Sinotrra. Or for that matter, Symour Konigsberg, aka Woody A;llan, who trumped his jokes with Sid Caesar Carol Reiner Howie Morris, Imagene Coco.
Hedy LaMarr, the Vienese bveauty "discovereed" by Louis B. Mayer in all her splendor. "Pepe," she said "the internet just reproted a London Hype Park incident. Remember the flick "The Graduate". About plastics. Dustin Hoffman, Ann Bancroft." "Ectasy"
Pepe sharing his space with "eEtrasy" as she swung the scope bewyobnd Gibraltrar the monkeys atop the tourist cars and b eyond......

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London’s Hyde Park. "The Graduate" in dfisguise, Dustin Hoffman giving rescuitration to a fallen jogger. Smart phone dialing 91`1,emergency.
"Whow Hedy. Reemb er when we were subbing in Canoga Park.
"Blosso Hoffman was Sutter’s secretary. You couldn’t get any steady work,Pepe. Charles Boyer had all the macho Tarzan like roles tied up. "
"It all lies in "plastics" doesn’t it Hedy? Lemme take a look."
Blossom Hoffan’s kid brother over a half a century,standing over a fallen jogger. ."He was right then. If you go, go with your own humanity. Plastics was the snare, wasn’t it, Hedy. To capture your insecurity. Corrupt you. Steal your chops."
"Se la vie, Pepe." the infra red telescopic lens capturing the Gibraltar monkeys raising the roof with the trourists and their cars.



Arican sky, Pepe and Hedy LaMarr stood on their Casbah North African balcony, each taking turns at their Adler planetarium scope. (Haydn, Griffith {aerk_)
"Tootsie" has come a long wy since those halycon yesterdays in the West San Fernando Valley of the L,A. basin. The school’s secretary "Graduate" has come a long way Didn’t he take his Eisenberg and Eisenberg plastics on the road.
A factory in the midlands. Simon&Garfinkel, no relation to Body&Souls Julie Garfinkel. A Befdord Avenue manse. A start up like the pros say in "rags and old cloz", the East Los Angeles M.F. Berg factory weighing it on their scales.

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"The Graduate" chose his spots. Didn’i he Pepe? Something of a role player like you, ahling," said the once sultry "Ectasy" siren of MGM’s Louis B. Mayer discovery.
"An artistic soul, he sort out his size in "Willy Loman" and
O’Neil’s "Iceman" , "Tootsie" identifying with "Hickey".
Pepe and Hedy into their own galaxy, scanning the heavens with their naked eyes. A shooting star whizzed across the ceiling of their own skies. "What role do you thin the "Grduate" grew into from "the Graduate" asked Hedy.

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"All Willy need attention" said his widow. "He tried to cover up his failings . But don’t all we humans. Our pretensions and ego trips need a bartender wet nurse and good humor man," said Pepe into his Casbah role, commanding the Mediterranean, Gibraltar and beyond.
He too like Dustin Hoffman had evolved. Come a long way from the San Fernando Valley schoolyards.
Pepe remained true to himself, never identifying with the likes of Hickey, "The Iceman Cometh"
Hickey transfigured and stoned in the Greenich Village bar, fearful of abandoning his refuge, for the monied cosmos outside.

The city that never sleeps, May 9, 2012