Paul Newman as Butch Cassidy and Robert Redford as the Sundance Kid (“the Sting” following) coming to grips with Elmer Bernstein’s Oscar winning score in Harper Lee’s “To kill a mocking bird” Gregory Peck the taciturn legal eagle, evocating the Southern rage and ostracism that inflames man’s inhumanity to man.
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Standing on the Academy of Motion Picture dais, his sweaty palms gripping the gold statuette: his Oscar wining musical score to barrister Peck’s justification of “An unimaginative darkie aligning his inexcusable but provocative mayhem on a Caucasian clean cut remnant of a culture struggling to hold on to its skin colored yesterdays.
“Amen”
III
A feminine Equity minded Hilary Clinton, once of Illinois and Yale Law School during Nam , beat back Bernie Sanders (Brooklyn. Mayor of Burlington, Vermont) passionate”revolution” to win Nevada’s primary for its delegates to the Democratic convention, priming the electorate for the 2017 occupant of the White House.
Going for the crown, the first femme dwell in the White House, Hilary Clinton strode into the culinary kitchen of the strip’sFlamingo, she clasped hands o f Meyer Lansky ,(our first boss, a Brownsville soda warehouse)at the Golden Nugget…building the first hotel on the strip…. Shaking hands , Hilary Clinton was pumping flesh, like a winner.
And the voters, remembering her husband’s two term occupation the White House, she identified with her Ye Law School student colleague. Shades of Dean Lou Pollock. his roommate at Yale Law, Constitutional Law CLA Professor Aarvo van Alstyne.
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But for Bernie Sanders, the son of immigrants, the former Mayor of Burlington, Vermont and the Socialist Democrat of the Senate, heralding from Madison High School in Brooklyn, the arch rival of the other Bedford avenue high school, Midwood, brings to mind coach Barney Cohen’s basketball team,challenging Bernie’s Madison.
Coach Cohen’s captain Leny Singer, Shelly fine, Honest Bill Rosenblatt,,Wally Kaplan,. Ira Schneider…off the bench Lefty Jack Dym ( his deadly hook), Lefty Norman Fisher, Lusterman, Hoie Weisglass, Gerry Ringleheim, the “Commish” Marv Glauberman, Jack Singer, Eddie (the Judge) Joachim…..Buddy Solomon……Arnold Aaronson….Captain Stan Rubin
Twelve years up the road on Bedford venue and Kings Highway, Bernie Sanders, the son of immigrants and Presidential contender, giving Hillary Clinton a run for her money as they say ,the two high schools vieng for bragging rights on Bedford Avenue, having in common they were for the most part, all children of immigrants.
“Right Hillary?”
“Right!”
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In the meantime, at the post office in Oxford, Mississippi, William Faulkner, the famous Nobel laureate in L:iterature to become, was shuffling letters into the idiot boxes of the natives and inhabitants of the Oxford town square.
Once a screen writer at Warner r Brothers in Burbank, he metamorphosed into a relationship with Cary Grant[ and director Howard Hawks (“Only Angels have wings,”) flying mail over the Andes , off the coast of South America. Jean Arthur the romantic foil for (C.G) Archie Leach…, Rita Hayworth a gig,“Habla el Espanol”.
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In those pioneer yesterdays, the thespians all wanted top billing. “Remember the Alamo” Thus Faulkner’s quest with destiny was a accidental encounter with Eugene O’Neil, at HoraceLiveright’s, the editor, hired at Random House as editor in chief…..previously an upstate N.Y. dentist.
Sax Cummins and wife moved to Princeton, New Jersey. They invited us to share a pot luck dinner with them, the timing a Presidential candidate named Adlai Stevenson, to speak at the University that night.
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Faulkner trained from Oxford to Princeton, bringing his “Absalum Absalum” manuscript, for Sax Cummins editing. Handing us the novel, we turned to the “Absalum Absalum”
inscription…
”To Herr Doctor Einstein. Just because I sign my name in your book, doesn’t mean you’re obliged to read it.” William Faulkner
February 22, 2016 The City that never sleeps
