Who would have known that our own encounters with directorPreston Sturges ( his mother, a friend of modern dancer Isadora Duncan ) at his stucco pink upstairs diner on Sunset Boulevard’s Strip, while Archie Leach (Cary Grant) on Coney Island tilts, playing out his thespian future, prior to WW2 flicks by De Sicaand Rossellini (Ingrid Bergman’s “ Stromboli”) wouldmotivate Apace Geronimo, to resume his ruminations incyberspace’s “cool& awesome” interventions in once textured lives, post General Custer’ s ambushed reality scene.
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Geronimo’s prayer to the Apache father in the Heavens…. those prayers on the quick, to encounter the Yale University Greeklecturer, Erich Segal, who upon graduating from our famedMidwood High, across Brooklyn College’s Campus Road,brought his aura to New Haven.
Sorting out his fan mail, in the Yale posts office, amidstfeigning kiss ups (Eric Sherman, own Eric from Milliken Jr. High, Sherman Oaks, Ca, where we put in time, subbing).
Eric introduced us to his Erick, whom he ‘dissd” as a Philosophy lecturer at Hartford, Waterbury, Quinnipiac, New Haven University.
“Love is never having to say you’re sorry”
Scoring his adaptation, for Ryan O’Neil and Ali McGraw in Paramount’s “Love Story”
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“Say ho Geronimo”, still morphing from his run in with Archie Leach, into his role as a honcho on stilts… a frank and knishpitch in Coney Island.
Across the boardwalk, Jimmy Durante’s fifty cents keg of beer ,Eddie Jackson’s upright piano against the wall, next to a barrel of dill pickles. ‘A nickel a pickle’
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The famed Geronimo soul, fresh from his top billing over General Custer, wasn’t at all taken aback, when he saw that Archie Leach’s own…. a Broadway marquee “Archie Leach“ Madame Butterfly
Whoa Ho, Geronimo! The boardwalk honcho had destined hisnew role for a Puccini Geisha girl
“Love story” opera.
“Love is never having to say you’re sorry”.
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Meanwhile our returning Iraq Afghanistan vets in a holdingpattern, with the Veterans Administration. Senator Bernie Sanders of Brooklyn an Vermont, bringing a sense of moral decency and equity to the table, the Nation reeling from the V.A. cover up of their appointed “treatments”.
June 3, 2014 the City that never sleeps
