The Flying Philosopher: May 2016

Between “Bringing up Father”

Between “Bringing up Father”… the turmoil between Jigs andhis faithful Maggie..getting in the last word….,William Randolph Hearst, the artful creator of Colonel Lindbergh..his flight to Paris…a chain of newspapers (your correspondent hawking his Examiner on Santa Monica’s Wilshire Boulevard, after putting in our time at McKinley Elementary and playing tetherball on the spacious playground.. some fisticuffs about our Big Apple “drift...”

Subsequently The “Thin Man”…William Powell and Myrna Loy, with their dog Astor, would resonate, perpetuating the myth of “Bringing up Father”…..William Randolph Hearstthinking of giving up the celebrity of Colonel Lindbergh, his expansiveness at his San Simeon ate , catering to the likes of Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton’s Diane.(“Annie Hall”)Luminaries fo a marathon romp of gossip, imported cuisine and “pillow talk”.

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Thinking of channeling his metrics into running for a higher office. Contemplating a run for the White House. President William Randolph sounds better than “Citizen Kane”, doesn’t it? Isn’t there more to chain of newspapers and a self servingscenario with his mistress Miriam

Davies.

A bird in the hand is better than two in the bush., Right? Annie of “Annie Hal” notoriety?

If an “Our Gang” kiddo out of Coney Island can make the leap, what about me!. The parachute jump is all his, why can’t “Citizen Kane” identify with his “Sultan of Swat”? the “Thin Man’s” Astor, heard barking in the background.

May 26,2016 San Simeon, the Hearst Castle

Upon retirement, CBS’s Edward R. Murrow

Upon retirement, CBS’s Edward R. Murrow calibrated his “Voice of America”…Eric Sevard, Walter Cronkite, Lawrence Lowman, 60 minutes (passed away last week at age 85) Morley Safer, Mickey Cohen’s prison cell interrogator Mike Wallace, Charles Collingwood, CBS’s radio Raymond Gram Swing.

Tenacious human beings, who crafted the Philadelphia Drugstore Indian, that Chairman Bill Paley.and Alan Weinberger’s father, resonated in the Big Apple’s Madison Avenue, comparable with Generaql Sarnoff’s National Broadcasting Company..

The calling of these larger than life commentators on the global scene brings to mind CNN’s interview of retired 5 star General Wesley Clark vibes earlier this morning. In crisp and articulate English, mixed with the Iraq cities, sects, and tribes, he sort outfrom his reflective retirement base at UCLA, General Clark, swiftly rethought his original Iraq invasion and “weapons of mass destruction”. An the fall of the dictatorial Husain.

The Sunnis, Shiites, Kurds and Syrian based Rebels gave an affirmative mix to this latest offensive gamble.

“For the civilian population to evacuate before the “wreck of the Hesperus” descends upon the masses.

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The rehashing and self destruction to the cries of a wildly estimation of this

situation in South East Asia and the Arabian Peninsula. May the battle heroics of General Clark, reenergize his own “Voice of America” at UCLA.

May 24, 21016 General Wesley Clark . His appraisal and recalibration of the Iraq Syrian war on CNN..

“When are you coming back Red Ryder”?

“When are you coming back Red Ryder”? starring Ralph (Sonny) Blum’s kimosabi as the earstwhile munchen to the irrestible honcho in a class by himself….Red Ryder t v series ..recognizing Lee Grant.’s acting flavor.later...

Putting aside jealousies from the camp of the Laker spectator bassketballer Jack Nicholson, a former New Jersey caddy (“Fore”), Ralph “Sonny” Blum’s father, a Rabbi turned agent, inveigled the aspiring actor to weigh in as Red Ryder’s kimosabi, in the horseman’s stable. Catching outlaws and those drifters ike “Jack the knife” who went astray in their “When are you coming back, Red Ryder”?

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Punctuating the Beverly Hills syndrome, was a smiling slick of Van Johnson on a boudoir nest, his freckled face adrift without his screen tally ho June Allyson, the MGM star desiress “It takes two to tango”

So in that household where Sonny and his gaucho amigo played out their symbiotic roles in those Red Ryder episodes, Tommy, and a producer from the Big Apple, arrived one night for dinner. His companion unlike the musical “tone”Lena Horne, he left in the Apple, they fought out “a deal” for the rights to the live musical in the City that never sleeps.

In the meantime Jack Nicholson got off the ground in his role as a non commissioned officer at the Air National Guard base in Van Nuys, thereby relegating his own role ,once the Vietnam invasion came to an

unconditional surrender.

The moral of these chemistries expanding to the big screen and studio stages was a priceless ingredient…..subtle impression natures, identifying with the roles that made their characters come

alive..

May 19, 2016 Heavenly Hills, …the City that never sleeps. .

In the annals of Courtroom Dramas

In the annals of Courtroom Dramas…not the “Paradine Case”, featuring Charles Laughton as the wigged Judge…Marlene Dietrich as the witness into revelatory asides…Tyrone Power slashing cross examination, his modus operandi to get to the soul of the human dilemma ,hidden within the sacrosanct limitations of the examination of the witness’s moral thread …her veracity from the womb to the inevitable….

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This then is the 20th century moment when the cream cheese bandit, aided and abetted by the moral support of his toupeeworn legal eagle, attempted to put away and confine his mother for the rest of her yesterdays..comparable to the scenario his mother and her sisters..his aunts pretended in going through the motions, ”foreclosing“ on their brother Max, when there was nothing wrong with him. All he needed was emotional support,” said the Shrink, his fingers into his Islip Asylym paperwork.,Uncle Max hidden behind the confining bars for over 50 years..for scribbling a letter to President McKinley….his sisters hiring a limo once a month to visit him.

But the prevailing “that life is a mass of contractions” embraces the toupee the cream cheese bandit’s lawyer in wearing. Isn’t he the Bandit’s alter ego? To commit his mother? That her frame of mind, living out her demise in the L.A. Basin. Her lifeline ending since the Name Detective…. her husband, was operated for his hay fevered emphysema.

Sitting in that kitchen chair, his facial grimaces..his immortal soul ascending……

The Cream Cheese Bandit stacked the cards against his mother. Trying to commit his mother, along the lines of Uncle Max…”there was noting wrong with your Uncle Max. All he needed was emotional support,” said the Shrink, sorting out the 50 years of psychiatric examinations..

At the last moment, the Loeb and Loeb law firm came to the rescue. A new judge took the stand. The Cream cheese bandit’s mother recalled her visits to her Ventura Boulevard shrink.

A” hundred dollars for every thirty minutes” .

“Why so much?” asked the Freudian visitor.

“You’re getting a bargain. You’re a senior citizen..”

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“Living out your dreams,” said the newly sitting Judge.“Miscarriage of justice. Case dismissed.”

May 18, 2016….the cream cheese bandit and his legal eagle of a “toupee”.

The Scarborough College N.Y. tennis player

The Scarborough College N.Y. tennis player into “Slim’s” Howard Hughes “hurdy gurdy”. Noah Dietrich’s Bel Air Bellagio Road Ca. posse…….Emmet Steele in his multi e flavored shorts, high ankle socks, wearing a moneyed smile, monitored curly hair, with his stained sweat shirt….

Although Frank Capra invited the cream cheese bandit to the annual Beverly Hills tennis club baseball game, the bandit in his eventual bullying role (hearing the Tilden High School basketball coach ringing his cauliflower spread “You’re not a team player. You’re out for yourself .Six man off the Junior Varsity bench…be grateful for small favors”
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So instead the cream cheese bandit was outside looking in…“Bogy” Humphrey Bogard, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Irwin Shaw. Budge Patty, Arthur MARx ( Groucho’s son(, “The Male Animal’ Elliot Nugent, President Ernest Pascal, Ray Stark, Jerry Wald, Nat Perrin, Cy Howard (“My Friend Irma”) George Willner, Robert Blumoffe, (Sir) Arthur Gilbert, once of London’s Golders Green, Billy Wilder, Phil Gersh, Irwin Gelsey MGM’s Joe Cohen, Lefty Willner, Herby Flam, NormanKrasner (wedded Al Jolson’s widow), Harold Buchman, Pat Di Cicco, (pioneered bob bon ice cream chocolates in movie theaters) Albert Marx, Jack Cushingham,(“pros”) “Pancho”Segura, Bill Gargan, (not the Park Slope Brooklyn College librarian Bill Gargan) Greg Bautzer.Marty Melcher (Doris Day’s ‘H’, mgr) Georgie Kaufman, dentist Jules Gladstone , Robert Rossen (“All the King’s Men”) John Ireland, (Joanne Dru)….Ronie Lubin, once of Boyle Heights (East L.A.)

Willie Wyler, Cary Grant, (Archie Leach) , Gig Young, Don Castle, Sam Spiegel, Michael Blankford, Harold Preacher,Sidney Chaplin, Alan Curtis, Budge Patty, Horace McCoy, Willie Wyler, Harold Hecht, Arthur Drumett…Gilbert Roland (“Amigo”)., Sonny Fotre, Solly Biano, Bill Orr, Sidney Harmon, Nick Conte, Travis Kleefeld, Jennings Lang (Walter Wangershootout)….”Mister Lucky” Milton Holmes(mgr)…..Albert Brocolli…Dale Wasserman…..Willie Shore (Billy Wilder’s stand in) Allan Joslyn Kent Taylor (“Boston Blackie”) Travis Kleefeld aka Tony Travis (Dinah Shore’s protégé), Harold Willens (Al Slivers, brother in law) , Dave Leans, once of Gibraltar’s Island (brother Jay)

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And Milo Frank, Ann Frank’s kin, Eleanor Roosevelt’s dedication.

May 11, 2016. The Beverly Hills Tennis Club membership…1939-1950 Korean War

The Scarborough College N.Y. tennis player into “Slim’s” Howard Hughes

The Scarborough College N.Y. tennis player into “Slim’s” Howard Hughes “hurdy gurdy”. Noah Dietrich’s Bel Air Bellagio Road Ca. posse…….

So instead the cream cheese bandit was outside looking in…“Bogy” Humphrey Bogard, Burt Lancaster, Kirk Douglas, Budge Patty, Arthur MARx ( Groucho’s son(, “The Male Animal’ Elliot Nugent, President Ernest Pascal, Ray Stark, Jerry Wald, Nat Perrin, Cy Howard (“My Friend Irma”) George Willner, Robert Blumoffe, (Sir) Arthur Gilbert, once of London’s Golders Green, Billy Wilder, Phil Gersh, Irwin Gelsey MGM’s Joe Cohen, Lefty Willner, Herby Flam, NormanKrasner (wedded Al Jolson’s widow), Harold Buchman,, Albert Marx, Jack Cushingham,(“pros”) “Pancho” Segura, Bill Gargan, (not the Park Slope Brooklyn College librarian Bill Gargan)Greg Bautzer.Marty Melcher (Doris Day’s ‘H’, mgr) GeorgieKaufman, dentist Jules Gladstone , Robert Rossen (“All the King’s Men”) John Ireland, (Joanne Dru)….Ronie Lubin, once of Boyle Heights (East L.A.)

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And Milo Frank, Ann Frank’s kin, Eleanor Roosevelt’s dedication.

May 11, 2016. The Beverly Hills Tennis Club membership…1939-1950 Korean War

Whether it was karma, baroque or academia

Whether it was karma, baroque or academia, the reality was the reappearance of Ronald Coleman, the hundred and twenty five year old High Llama , a role Sam Jaffe (not unlike C. Aubrey Smith), had come to call his very own. “ Mister Conway, we have been waiting a log time. An inestimable long time measured by the 2016

Presidential election, Barak Obama return to civilian life in the Windy City.

Although Shangri-la was not the 21st Story Tellers Club……Stay Loose, the Pied Piper, Marviola,(the foremost schemer from the Terminal Annex post office.com,9HI8S SISTER CHOIRMASTER Midwood High School’s Ben chancy chorus substitute Miss. Friedman, of *Crown Heights, a musical cognoscenti, grounded in the thespian roles of Ingrid Bergman, Irene Dunne, Jean Arthur, Greer Garson. Leading ladies of the 20th Century sterling screen, post Hollywood Boulevard heroics.

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The High Llama held his arms high. “We are not collecting dues today. A momentous moment Mister Conway’s arrival. To assume my role in Shangri-la. A different tone people’s people we inherited.. nothing liked the sound and fury in the States. The candidates below us have a Little Rock and Coney Island resonance. An unprecedented free association resonance.”

Mother’s Day May 8, 2016 Shangri-la’s *“Lost Horizon”