Although Bridget Kelly fell into her subpoenaed E mail “Time your traffic problem at Fort Lee” (the 2 lane closures for four days ( the GW Bridge) in the 20 subpoenaed Governor Christie retribution “Bridge gate”…..a cryptic 7 words:, the song and dance repartee into Hoboken and “Strangers on the Bridge”Frank Sinatra singing, Nelson Riddle arranging….
Major Bowes amateur hour, the tip of the bumper to bumper“mumbo jumbo”
A song and dance litterbug.
“Right Bridget? “ “Right”
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On hearing that Mickey Rooney has two movies emerging on the 2014 scene at age 93, Kirk Douglas “The Champion” cumulative silver screen’s credits at 97. And the RKO actress,Dina Merrill at 92, born with a silver spoon in her mouth, sitting o n the Board at the once viable Lehman Brothers before they went belly up like Moby Dick, falling into the bottom line and the land locked boondocks of Wall Street bankruptcy.
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Appearing on the Culver City, California Metro Goldwyn Mayerstudio lot, a staggering 6th grader apple cheeked “newsboy” for an interview in a Marjorie Kinnnan Rawlings “The Yearling” for the role of Gregory Peck’s son (the subsequent flick) Jody and his symbiotic relationship with a fawn as we cried, on hearing Islip, Long Island, was issuing ammo, to rid the town of the animals.
The “Mick” , was enshrined in the Judge Hardy flicks, FayHolden, his mother, the father & Judge Lewis Stone, and hisfirst love…. girl friend, Judy Garland.
Rooney played out inner needs as a telegraph scrub, deliveringthe wires handed to him by the manager, played by James Craig, the Mick pedaling his bike, as we did during WW2,delivering telegrams to Gold Star mothers on the fates of theirinnocent sons, trapped on Normamdy Beach,( France) invasion and Germany’s Battle of the Bulge.
“The Human Comedy” by William Saroyan, transcended family life before it got caught up with the consequences of death andloss.. …lives cut short by the Hitler like aggression on theContinent and North Africa…. a prelude to Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan wastelands and nightmares.
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Mickey Rooney like Artie Shaw, the “Begin the Beguine” band leader, Buddy Rich on the drums, was a Hollywood High School environmentalist, later hitching Lana Turner and Ava Gardner while the Mick dating two teen age blondes, one of which we tried browsing on the phone, the gig to n o avail.
Meanwhile his “sister” Judy Garland, swept into her role “The Wizard of Oz”, belting out “Over the Rainbow” her dog “Tot”his bark unlike Rin Tin Tin’s, Lassie, an d the Thin Man’s(Nick and Nora Charles) fox terrier Asta (*Skippy in real life)
In contemplation, “Ninotchka” Garbo, Luise Rainer Norma Shearer, Hedy Lamar, Joan Crawford, Deanna Durbin, Olivia deHavilland, age 97, residing London, England, all retired from their personas on the silver screen, living out their real lives.
Right, “*Skippy”? Right!
January 17, 2014 The City that never sleeps.
