Allen Alley’s on radio, Fred Allen interviewing Cesar Romero’sgrandson Filiberto about the Castro Cuban revolutionmetamorphosing into “the promised land”, Mister Allen moves into a empathetic rapport “America and Cube resolve their differences? Havana and Florida cape, separated by 60 miles of shark invested seas.. but who in their right mind would want to defect Paradise now, Filiberto?”....
Life is beautiful my be a cliché but Frank Capra and General Jimmy Stewart on the tube “It’s a wonderful life”, Ward Bond as the copper at the b ridge…no Bach’s Partitas but the General’s self destructiveness … climbing the bridge… his wish fulfillment- hari kri- for the bank’s foreclosures on his friends, neighbors, employees . Remember Donna Reed overreacting,taking the creditors by storm…Mucho gracias de nada.”
Mister Allen moves the radio make closer to Senor Romero.“Knowing that you’re a former knothole kid, Senor. Yourgrandpa the Cisco Kid “Weekend in Havana”, costarringCarmen Miranda.”The Brazilian Bombshell” Tell our audience in your honest words, do you think the “The invisible man” Lone Ranger hi ho Silver” liberates of our almost 6 decades,(1959) will energize “Habla el Espanol” Yankee first basemanLou Gehrig. “I’m the luckiest man on the face of the Earth”?
”Viva Roberto Clemente” May his dream live forever, mommy.”
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“Mister Allen this is larger than Jackie Robinson breaking the color line with the Dodgers. Sandy Koufax with the House of David, on the Parade Grounds at Prospect Park, graduate of Lafayette High escuela in Bensonhurst. I’m only a fifty five cent nickel and dime bandit. A knot hole kid, sitting in the ChavezRavine bleachers..
Emerging Habla El Espanol dream. Grandp’s role as the Joker in “the Batman”
“How does the metamorphosis make an impact, SenorRomero?””
“ Muco grande dos passo.. No more status seekers.. But competitive like Pancho Gonales, Segura in tennis. No longer does a player think about defecting to Florida. Athletes can liveout their dream. Playing in mucho grazies stadiums.. Beforegrino fans….1959 Milton’ss ‘ Paradise Lost’ playing out Fidel’s revolutionary memories.””
“You sound bigger than Benito Juarez.(Paul Muni) PanchoVilla. Senor Romero..larger than Shangrila.” I
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“Katy Jurado, Delores del rfio. Ali Khan’s senora.. Rita Hayworth. (“Gilda”). Habla el Espanol Senoritas. They transcend the silver screen, Senor Allan.. Bajas, California Acapulco. Tijuana, Guadalajara, Juarez, Senor . No longer do we have talk out of both sides of our mouth. Driving a cab, arole of a gardener, kissing up to our ed kimosabis, living inMiami…con mucho dinero.
“A knot hole kid before Allen’s Alley can you give our listeningaudience “ It’s a wonderful life” opinion of what the liberation of Cuban defectors means to the big leagues in Hall of Fame millionaire row.”
“Ard” from the Dominican Republic, the “Panchos” from theEst LA. barrio… Boyle Heights,(Brooklyn Avenue) HollenbeckJr. High, Roosevelt High. The escuelas of Lincoln, Wilson andGarfield can don their jocks and stripes, hit those funkyfungos… oil their mitts, clean out their spikes, washing machine sud and bleach their uniforms, caps. Jackie Robinson’snumero 42 El Serno Jr, East L.A. City Colleg,(Public Speaking)
“Adios barrio…Ponce de Leon’s fountain of youth, mommy, poppa.. Spring training is eternal, mommy.. Whittier Boulevard, La Habra, Fullerton Stte College. Mommy Poppa oh how our grandmas, grandpas would embrace the American dream.
The gringos…Leo Carillo, Ton y Quinn.., Margo (Martha Sodo)from Belvedere Gardens Jr S. tevenson
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Lupe Velez, Gilbert Roland the”amigo”, Art Aragon the bailiff in pegged pants and the key chain, Enrique Bolanos, Delores del Rio, Katrey Jurado…….Fathers Sera Crespi… the San Fernando missions, our heritages Mommy, Poppa. Fidel’s brother is theFountain of Youthn reincarnated”
“I AM THE LUCKIEST MAN ON THE FACE OF THEEARTH”, Gehrig’s fanfare that day in the Bronx...a toreador for all bullfighters whose birthrights are “Dos semanas in Havana” Brazil’s Carmen Miranda, grand poppy’’s Cesara Romera’sCuban heritage….mommy a concert singer, daughter of Latino Jose Marti, Cuba’s national hero
’The Statute of Liberty welcomes immigrants from the cradle to the grave, where ever’
“ Hasta la vista, baby.”
The City that never sleeps, December 21, 2014
