A quality human being named John Nash

A quality human being named John Nash, a Nobel PrizeLaureate in Economics, was taken away from us…on a New Jersey turnpike crash, the obituary ….                                                                               II

His memory “A beautiful mind” starring the Aussie RussellCrowe, remains an immortal part of ourselves. The very permanence of our being, Mister Crowe tossing the dice,bringing the Princeton Professor  John Nash back to life..

But we hear you say “How could he do it?”a quantum leap from the college campus, strolling to his lecture hall, his chalked blackboard making order out of chaos, our pop culture unbelievers in disarray, wonder: intellectually and emotionally unbelieving, Mozart’s number eleven Sonata playing out John Nash’s memory.

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A life transcending the gamble , Jack L. Warner throwing the dice with the British born producer Alexander Korda

”A gamble that I can make a star out of the Aussie  Errol Flynn. Starring him as “Captain Blood”……the producer winning the bet, Errol Flynn never the same, till he walked into the law offices of Jerry Geisler, leaving the legal eagle speechless…..

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Variations of John Nash’s  role…an original Albert Einstein alter ego on  campus and on camera.”Pine Island off the point below”, Max Steiner’s musical score to the spring season,flowing into the heat and humidity of the Big Apple summer….

Theorem function and game play of Johnny  von Neuman,differential geometry……. Mini max computer sciencealgorithms.

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In memoriam…..”  Until the ducts are empty….”

May 31, 2015 The City that never sleeps.

Casting a knot hold kid from Ebbets Field and the former Governor of New York.

Casting a knot hold kid from Ebbets Field and the former Governor of New York. A larger than life scenario for the Presidency of our vast Continent, from the Atlantic to the Pacific Ocean.

Could  the former Mayor of Burlington, Vermont (winning by ten votes). Could  that now dynamic independent  U.S. Senatorrescue Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence from the cell phone, i phone, web pages… cyber space rascals that have the populace handcuffed by the technological sound and fury…                                                                                                                                                                                         

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Ten years in central casting and the 70ish exe Governor of the Empire State, George Pataki, voices his resurgence in  Executer, New Hampshire, for the White House.

Senator Bernie Sanders and Governor George Patakii the two formidable pros out of New York. Could they take their roles to a Ninth Inning  stealing home plate on a squeeze bunt?

Bring the nation back to Paul Revere, Patrick Henry, Thomas Jefferson, Colin Kelly, General George Marshall, Harry Truman’s gutty leadership.

A leadership that turns back the clock to civilized times. “By George” his quiet mind…suspending  the 3 time Govern MarioCuomo..whose dream as the son of Italian immigrants…to become a major league baseball hero in the likes of Joe DiMaggio…a 56 game hitting streak!.

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On that two way highway to Bethlehem village, New Hampshire for hay fever relief in the White Mountains, Mount Washingtonand the Old Man of the Mountain, the ‘33 Plymouth….thru Brattleboro, Putney….Vermont mountainous rustic nature…Birch, Maple, Beech trees….….Dartmouth College on the verge of New Hampshire in Hanover( left handed Salinger’s Holden Caulfield’s “ Catcher in the Rye” Breton Woods, Laconia Notch,a foretaste of the United Nations, the hotel for diplomats,Keene…..Littleton, (Bette Davis birth), Whitefield….Greer Garson’s “Mrs. Miniver” on cue in the  town’s movie house.

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But what was playing out asked this corner, sitting in the back of the Playmouth. Passing the Burma Shave epigrams posted on the side of the two way highway.….the split pea soup restaurant…..old man Ness’s bungalow court and stable . The Howard House Hotel, past the Main Street movie theater, playing Irving Berlin Bing Crosby’s “White Christmas” Crosby’s  top billing marquee..

The White Mountains  the Old Man of the Mountains Mount Washington )(6288’)( the skki chair on the slope.

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Here then was the scenic background for “Clifford Odets “Waiting for Lefty” the scenario for the Brooklyn born knot hole kid Bernie Sanders taking his cue on Brattleboro’s  stage.

24 hours later, George Pataki, elected to test his own role in Exeter, New Hampshire.

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Meanwhile that giant barrister, born in London…..out of Boys High, off Fulton Street in Brooklyn and Columbia Law school, Louis Nizer, was into the Howard House dais, practicing his forensics a la millionaire finesse.…his vocals for sevendecades, transcending our minor planet’s   jurisprudence and jury trialexpertise and experience..

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Could Bernie Sanders and George Pataki ‘s karma steal a pagefrom Brando’s “I wuz a contender” to   the White House, the field ‘s coefficient of expansion pasting..

Old Man’s Ness biology to Elliot Ness, the scion  into Chicagoand Walter Winchell in Hollywood: Robert Stack playing out the  Elliot Ness role, the fearless prosecutor…..never remembering that the cream cheese bandit had ridden Old Man Ness’s horses in that Bethlehem’s cottage scene  two decades earlier.

“Happiness doubled by wonder”……….the White Mountains, Bethlehem, New Hampshire

May 29, 2015 The city that never sleeps

Willie Pep

Willie Pep, a former lightweight champion of our cosmos, once said in the aftermath of a bloody fight for all the marbles on our minor planet……

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“What did me in neighbor, was…you read my mind…..  youguessed it……”fast women and slow horses”.

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Lying on my back , I can see where the Supreme Court of the land, is into the Constitutionality of same sex marriages, notwithstanding  the Irish voted for its Eire application yesterday. .  

Coming from a womb like urge, may mean nothing to splitting a hair like these barristers and the Irish voters.. But whether their true to themselves …they must go to obiter dictum. 

“Fat women and slow horses.  A pop culture gets what it deserves…..”an  unholy Holy Grail, neighbor.”.

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A Rocky Graziano is legendary  in Flatbush. Maybe he wasn’t a Golden Gloves contender from the East L.A. Barrio  like Art Aragon who opted out of the fight game to become a bail bondsman in Van Nuys….the same Dutch family that bequeathed the land to Brooklyn College on Bedford Avenue..the Van Nuys clan were great listeners….graspingHorace Greeley’s “Go west young man.”

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The life is a slug fest, isn’t it neighbor. Ask Kirk Douglas of Stanley Kramer’s “Champion”. Stanley or Stanislaus to his good friends like Carl Foreman (Gary Cooper “High Noon”)   

Odets “Golden Boy” is another example, neighbor. William Holden from Pasadena,. Once wed to his sweetheart BrendaMarshall, identified with the role of a Jasha Heifitz child prodigy who gave up the fiddle for Willie Pep’s ring.

Lee. J. Cob playing out the role of his Mike Jacobs manager, ifwe remember correctly, neighbor. Barney Ross of the Chicago golden gloves may be a William Holden in disguise….a historic model, neighbor.

Al “Bummy” Davis of Brownsville, Brooklyn, may be another transparency, brainwashed by fame and fortune, neighbor..

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But it b ears repetition….” Fast women and slow horses” done did Willie Pep in. So you got quality human beings sitting on  the highest court of the land, splitting hairs on same sex marriages. But like gun control, the political winds are contaminated by the greenbacks, the New Haven gun lobby carried away by Second Amendment interpretations in the Bill of Rights, favoring the law of the jungle and cannibalism..

If you’re searching for quality human beings neighbor, you might have to look in vain. From my vision, lying on my back “opposites attract”…a magnetic attraction genetically.

“Right neighbor?  Right!”

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How else can you discover quality human beings.?

Oliver Wendel Holmes, Jr.  Louis Brandeis, Cardozo of New York, Hugo Black once of the KKK. (Bogy

S “Black Legion”) Chief Justice Earl Warren of the Eisenhower Court.

God for big neighbor, they should use their periscopes  into each other’s soul, peering in.

A man and a woman…two opposites fighting it out into Eternity….. Hiawatha and John Arden. A duo of Two s once under wraps, putting our minor planet into orbit.

Whence these quality human beings in black robes originate?

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“Fast women and slow horses neighbor”, done did my doom, neighbor..

May  24, 2015. The city that never sleeps.        .  

A silver screen merchant

As the Florida auction house began its quest for the 29 Palms, California five acres, the Major and his frau began their soul searching deliberations……..

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Entering their think tank back in the Big Apple of Brooklyn, theenchanting change of nature… the news from the Las Vegasdesert that the mighty BB King and his voice, plus “Lucille” his guitar, were stilled: BB. had passed on  at age 89. His legacy resounding with the likes of Charlie “the Bird”) Parker (his revue, presently in Philadelphia) Louis “Satchmo” Armstrong  Queens abode and Blossom Silverman’s  Madison High School’s opera career (Milton Gould’s voice, the Saturday Texaco sponsored Metropolitan Opera, Beverly Sills had come a long way from her Kings Highway Brooklyn roots, hadn’t  she?

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“That’s fer shure” echoes the Major’s wife. “Her mother groomed her daughter for the City Opera, the constancy of knowing where her vocal range was, the immense stress of those resonating  soprano C’s guided into the drills and lessons she disciplined her range for Lincoln Center administrative role.

“Make it a part of your soul, Blossom,” said her mother.

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“Woe is me” quoteth Supreme Court Justice Ginsberg, a Madison High School stalwart as well. The denizens of Flatbush,  familiar with the likes of basketball players…the Rader twins, Stan Waxman, Dolly King, (Clair Bee’s LIU quintet)…

Cousins Paul and Harold Edelman, sitting in the gym’s bleachers, identifying with the flow playing out…. the fast break, give and go, rebounding off the boards, two handed set shot, and the  five   man weave, under the aegis of coach JamyMoskowitz’s  need to win, grooming his players to his team vision.

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Rossinis William Tel Overture (the Lone Ranger’s “Hi o silver”), Madison High School off Kings Highway and Ocean Avenue, the quality humans in the student body, overheard the dribbling musica in their souls.  

My cozs Harold and Paul Edelman… sitting in the s bleachers.

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In the meantime, a ‘33 Plymouth, passed through the Holland Tunnel and the pretzel selling vendor on the Big Apple side,toward the recuperative powers of Southern California….Venice, Ocean Park, Santa Monica ….The Pacific Ocean’s ’s salt water sprays… the bingo parlors and penny arcades along the boardwalk

Actors Bob Hope (“The Cat and the Canary”), Randolph Scott, Nelson Eddy(Royal Canadian Mountie uniform, singing “Rose Marie I love you”) dominating the adjacent Fox theater silver screen..

Charlie Chaplin scoring his persona…mustachio, derby, black jacket, baggy pants, oversized shoes on the Venice roller rink.

Didn’t Ucla’s Professor Fredric Woellner say “Heaven is on the way to it” and immortal coach John  Wooden heard the calling and made his basketball trappings his legacy. But who knew hustling newspapers nightly, in Santa Monica, California’sWilshire Boulevard traffic t stop light  on 22n Street that a Cadillac , driven by Daryl Zanuck, the 20oth Century studio honcho (a Shirley Temple, a Santa Monica casting discovery, along with the likes of Robert Redford… subsequently Van Nuys High School in the Valley) That the studio chief would  buy a paper at the 22nd Street nee Wilshire traffic light,from  the 11yer old urchin….

A silver screen merchant nd and a newsy kid, vending his way,opposite the Owl drug store… later Zucky’s delicatessen…..

Meanwhile the Fuhrer, Adolph Hitler, formerly of the Munich beer halls, would vault into Hindenberg’s aging Berlin power….ascending to his role of the Fuhrer…his plan on decimating the planet of 6 million  human beings of Jewish origin…….allegedly quality human beings.

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But who knew in those yesterdays of the Dust Bowl depression that such a murderous carnage could be carried out throughout Europe. The Diary of Ann Frank as testament, from the Warsaw Ghetto.

While on California’s Culver City’s West Washington Boulevard, the MGM studio, was preparing the ”The Wizard of Oz” with a teenager named Judy Garland in the title role, singing “Over the Rainbow” by E.Y. (Yip) Harburg’s lyrics to Harold Arlen’s music….the cousin of Harold Edelman ‘s wife (Harold  of Madison High School’s bleachers. Remember!)

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Clearly Dore Schary who  would replace Louis B. Bayer as Chief of Production at the studio, had no idea that an ad in the Santa Monica daily for the role of Jody in “The Yearling” would entice the Flatbush born newsy of Wilshire Boulevard, along with his mother, a steno from Jimmy Cagney’s vaudeville booker (Black and Erlanger)

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Who among us, knew that those depression laden yesterdays….baking mickies, the WPA projects in East Flatbush, Beth El Hospital (Brookdale) Public School 233….Tilden High School summer pool, boys swim to Nat King Cole “Nature Boy” swooning splash.

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“Hubsy  Hubsy” shouted Ruthie Shapiro from  the porch of her parent’s WPA red brick home on  East 92nd Street, the “Major” wheeling the Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Segal iced baby carriage of Root Beer, Cream, Coca Colas, Pepsis, Selsa,  Sasparela, Lemon…..wheeling the carriage up 92nd Street toward Church Avenue and the Waldorf movie theater and the adjacent candy store’s frozen milky way.

Warner Brothers “They made me a criminal” starring John Garfield (Julie Garfinkel), Ann Sheridan, the Dead end Kids.

Not knowing a decade or two later, he would be playing doubles against Jack L. Warner at his Beverly Hills manse on Angela Drive in Beverly Hills…

Clint Eastwood off the Burbank lot,(a cowboy tv shoot) driving up to  meet the Wilshire Boulevard “Hubsy, “The Nature Boy” in the Los Angeles State College facilities on LACC’s parking lot.

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Bugs off his Murder Inc. yesterdays migrated to the Las Vegas desert and the Flamingo Hotel construction, later slain in his mansion on North Beverly Drive, off Sunset Boulevard, opposite the Beverly Hills Hotel.   .

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Who among us dreamers , d depression born babies knew ….”the stork brought you” said the momma(Jimmy Cagney’s steno) in the Bay Parkway hospital off Kings Highway, so many yesterdays ago..

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That it was Rancho de Mirage  to 29 Palms the site of the newsy 5 acres……the Major and his wife deliberating  about putting up the 5 aces at auction.….the water and electrical lines aboundingthe site…..Pinto Mountain, Joshua Tree, the Marine Base…..Palm Springs  racquet and golf club..Eisenhower Hospital….

“Going going…..” the auctioneer’s gavel held high into cyber space………………….

May 15, 2015  The City that never sleeps.