With an aging frog in his throat, Geoffrey Rush, the actor, morphing as the therapist "The King’s Speech" , hemed&hawed at the For Sale "sign on the Ocean Parkway& Avenue I’s mansion driveway .....
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Why hesitate? Coming from across the pond, surely he remembered the Bard’s admonition. "He who hesitates is lost."
Hadn’t he become a triple threat? Awarded the Tony Emmy and Oscar arwards, American audiences and those in the know, he parlayed his panacea all for King George’s psychic stuttering in his public addresses.Could Sigmund Freud have done any better? Stripping away his inhibitions and insecurities, growing up in an authoritarian realm of Buckingham Palacev where
fantasy gave drift to status... role playing ran amuck., the palace guards in their gaudy top hats and buttoned down red blouses did their "dance" in front of the gates..
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How to turn the King back to the uninhibited joy of his spit balling adolescence? Ah that is the question "my dear Leo " the 24 month olf great grandson, Stanley Kristalball, spoon feeding cod liver oil to his Kristalball inherited DNA, hemming&hawing from his yellow hi chair, several miles down Ocean Parkway, at Avenue P, six blocks down the pike, as they sway in the trades.
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Could he roll his therapeutic dice in this Flatbush monarchy? Wasn’t it like the Brooklyn "presdente" Marty M. Asking him to turn back the Gowanus to the wave capped Atlantic off Coney Island. Not unlike Moses crossing theRed Sea?
"Cure our denizens or Flatrbush floogies of Brooklynese. Speakinga poifect English/ You can do it, man. I know you can. I know."
" If you did it for the King.,you can do it for our royalty," said Marty, el Presidente from his throne in Borough Hall....or Senator Chuck endorsing the ticket in Charlotte’s Democratic convention.
" Enunciating Poifect English"to the television audience in "poifect" prime timeV
But the Ocean Parkway mansion "For Sale" was still in the therapist’s minds eye. Could he risk his reputation as a triple threat ..Tony... Emmy... Oscar.....
A decadent manse yes, unlike the seven other Avenue I mansions...But a "poifect" front for a therapis on the make... rehabilitating "Brooklynese". To demystify the "shorthand", speaking thru their teeth, while on those death defying runs to the bus stops
To take the time, inhaling...exhaling. No longer on the tempo to catch the Avenue I bus or jay walking across Ocean Parkway for the bus stop Wavin g their arms, screaming at the top of their lungs....at the center of their "Brooklynese" souls.
Was it worth the risk? To hunker down in an Avenue I palace.. to eradicate "Brooklynese" from the lexicon of their universe.
Would the expenditures outweigh the panaceas of re-speaking "the King’s Speech"
Seven decades after the fact, the "Brooklynese" stronger than ever.
On the corner of Ocean Parkway& Avenue I. In the Boro of "Brooklynese."
September 7, 2012
