Art dictator", his spoof on Adolf Hitler, with JackOaie idetifingwith Benito Mussolini.
What strikes an aging human bveing is the discerning ability to fashion the Burt Lancaster network of our BVrnum nd Baily riptides crossing the Continent. From those FDR depression bound laden yesterdays, unlike running to away to the circus….the reaql realiutyof our elven year old year left handed second grade minority scribbler caught up for the rest of his days, iun the whirl of right handed penmanship…
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The interconnections mayu sound vain and not wanting to expound anything like an ego trip our circus bound viajo began in the Loma apartments, the corridor bathroom of the Loma partm,ents, Venice ,Califoria.
The Metro Goldwytn Mayer studio in nearby Culver City, placed an article in the LA Tim,es about a search for an actor in the screen aDapatation of “The Year;ling”, a nar4ative byMargaret Kinnan Rawlingds. The role of Jody,a young boy who confronts a fawn seems to our years one of the main threads of her narrative.
Second, our one room apartment was surrounded by the pikes and dams parallel to those in Italy’s own Veice..the canals ad boats bubbling in those musical Mujssoliniambiance.
Here the scene was a roller rink beyond the canals where Charlie Chaplin found his persona. His pantamine gave whirl to his derby, mustache, baggy pegged pants, big shoes, and a cane.
A tested persona that stood the test of time…a young daughter bride namede OonO’Neikl…after Paulette Goddard…several children.
Jack Oakie identifyin v with the aforementioned Mussolini.
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Howqever our narrative our own narrative spins to Westwoodvillage, the home of Sonja Henie’s ice capades and the campous of the Universityof California at Los A ngeles where our older brother of eight years, tred to geta tennis scolarsip. B ut his academics were’t up t the aspiring and beuth of that scholarly g naRRheritage. And he returned to those Easwt Flabush environs of Brooklyn….Remembering how he cheated in the Habla El espanol finals of Ed Sullivan’s c moic Sam Levenson,. But was taked out of flunmkig him byhis scial Studies aunt Sela..
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But on that MGMCulver City West Washington stage of dowty ambitious mommas, their teeming nervous boys in hand, the scene had another movie ,going through their ..”lights camera action”
Harold Arlen’s score (a ladder day Barbara Streisamnd coach) for Judy Garland’s “OVER THE RAINBOW
* Wizard of Oz” captivating the trial audience..but on the stage in 1939…E.. Harburg tugging at our pants, we in turn hitting my mother Esther’s arm, skiddoing into West Washington Boulevard..the bus…back to our canals and one Venice room digs, with the bathroom in the hall, the Loma Apartments.!
*E.Y. (Yipsel) Harburg lyrics for Eternity ..”We’re off to see the Wizard” WW2 troops…
August 27,2016…trransceding our Big Apple origins
