“My alter ego best friend simpatico and shadow for over 40 years,” said Rocky “Sly” Balboa, Silvester Stallone, his incarnation over those decades the red carpet’s its ‘Over the Rainbow’,thes resounding longevity, topping the ‘Hollywood’fame and fortune charts.
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Earlier in the folklore, Orson Welles and Herman Mankiewitz, were readying “Citizen Kane” scenario and William Randolph Hearst’s passionate quest of the Californian who wanted to become President of these United States.
But with it all at San Simeon , siring his stable of journalistic heirs and his actress mistress Miriam Davies, he seemed to renounce it all, with his public wish fulfillment.
The White House as a familiar heritage by a Brooklyn “mensch”in 2016’s election ad it’s not Bernie Sanders, the former Mayor of Brattleboro Vermont, and a once Flatbush dude of Madison High School off Kings Highway, in Brooklyn.
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“Hello Rocky,” said the Chief from his third floor bedroom ,overlooking the Beverly Hills Hotel T age 88, still fantasying his passion of challenging FDR for the White House…second third term notwithstanding his plate glass over, with his mi
actress mistress, (Miriam Davies) his chain of newspapers, Colonel Lindbergh…..the solo viajo to Paris and maintaining his Empire in those depression laden yesterdays.
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So what if Miriam Davies he had no charisma….she may not have the Sylvester Stallone 40 year comeback off the mat, but she was the Chief’s mistress (wife, daughter…) and that was a red carpet moment.
“Right, Rocky?”
“Right”
January 16, 2016 The City that doesn’t sleep.
