“A place in the sun” and the Cream Cheese Bandit” is a TNTcombination, waiting to explode like a nuke
Its coefficient of expansion and chemistry, predicate TheodoreDreiser’s ‘The American Tragedy’.
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With Elizabeth Taylor in the role of the heiress searching for a“Mister Right” elitist, a fixture in her father’s security blanket and chain of command , Montgomery Clift, the subservient “Yes man’s,” quest to make his despicable soul whole…..without robbing the bank, boys and girls.
Montgomery Clift not unlike the Cream Cheese Bandit was a relist beyond any reality Cary Grant embraced, while awaiting Deborah Kerr atop the Empire Estate Building. “An affair to remember”
The Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan variation “Sleepless in Seattle…” Neither Jimmy Durante’s nasal on the soundtrack nor Archie Leach (Cary Grant) could identify with Montgomery Clift in his interpretation of the servile outsider, panting for a foothold in the Rockefeller inner circle by marrying an heiress,born into her father’s global network..
To make the ultimate sacrifice, usurper Monty Clift takes his sweetheart Shelly Winters in a rowboat, indenting to confess his “interpretation” when the boat overturns, Shelly of East New York, never learned to swim, drowns…. her intended accused of murder , his demeaning soft ware to find himself… hismanicured fingers into manacled handcuffs.
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The Cram Cheese Bandit” not unlike Montgomery Clift was lusting for an ego trip that would enhance his Tilden High School- Long Island University tennis image into post graduate studies and World War2 heroics in the Navy, stationed at Treasure Island’s rehab.
A lost soul confesses to Huby, his kid brother eight years younger and better self, after returning from a tryst with his mistress in the Naval boondocks of San Diego.
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Chomping on a burger from Hamburger Hamlet..his old reality scene in Westwood Village, the home of the UCLA Bruins, “the Ancient Mariner” was off and running, his saliva into cussing and cursing the Fates for seeing those mansions on Angela Drive, in North Beverly Hills, thinking like Monty Clift he could live in such economic affectation.
“You want some fries?”asked the Bandit. “Hubsy, you twisted the knife in my back. If it wasn’t for me, you’d be out in the cold on Gayley Avenue and Westwood Boulevard, bringing you into the ATO frat house, when there were no beds to sleep. Sleepless in Seattle has no place in my sun.
“I got you into the University. A bed to sleep on, when there nobeds to rest your weary bones ,kiddo. Don’t you forget that. I hitchhiked down from Treasure Island. My Chief’s uniform gotus that two decker on the sixth floor... Even if it was on the roof,”, he said, pouring ketchup on the spuds.
“And don’t you forget that, Huby. When you needed me, I was there for you,” said the Cream Cheese Bandit, spelling out his self serving bullying, justifying his existence…an ego trip from Brooklyn’s Booty Jr. High’s rooftop PSAL 60 yard dash..thefastest 6th grader” on the make… that first roof top track, he trained to bully.…..
“Can your kid brother have another spud, big brother?”
October 5, 2014 The City that that never sleeps.
