Although Max Arno, the larger than life talent coordinator of Harry Cohn’s Columbia Pictures, two blocks off the Sunset Strip, the War to end all wars had ended, he flipped the silver coated disc in the air like was pretending to be a UCLA quarterback a k Bob Waterfield, the better half of “Slim’s(Howard Hughes) Jane Russell, the glamour girl of Van Nuys High School in the Valley…(Robert Redford ,our student)
II
The Cream Cheese bandit and his Name Detective father of the Surrogate’s Court in t5he downtown Court and Montagu Streets in Brooklyn, had recorded his bequest for job at the3 studio, listing his accomplishments playing tennis with the director of Lost Horizon” at the Beverly Hills tennis club.
III
“Bandit would you want to play baseball with us scrubs. Bill Gargan ( once of Park Slope, Brooklyn College librarian, sharing the same Gargan) Budge Patty, Arthur Marx, Groucho’sson. Sidney Chaplin, Archie Leach (Cary Grant), Milo Frank the agent, behind “The diary of Ann Frank”, bridge playing Nat Perrin, Donald Woods, Horace McCoy, Alan Curtis, **Ray Stark, Ernest Pascal (the president), Billy Wilder, Humphrey Bogard (Bogy) Cy Howard, Jack Cushingham (tennis pro)Harold Preacher, ‘King of the bon bons”
Greg Bautzer, Jerry Geisler, (Errol Flynn, Charlie Chaplin notoriety), John Levee, Sidney and Harold Buchman, “The impossible dream” Dale Wasserman, John Garfield (Julie Garfinkle) Michael Blankford (The Juggler), Arthur Drumett, Don Castle, Robert Blumoffe, Phi Gersh, Irwin Shaw (Young Lions) Glbert Roland (“Amigo”), George Willner, Ray Miland(The Lost Weekend),Milton Holmes (Mr. Lucky) Harold Hecht,Albert Marx, Sonny Fotre, Herby Flam, Burt Lancaster (From here to Eternity), Kirk Douglas (The Champion), Solly Biano,Bill Orr, Ronnie Lubin, WillieWyler (Best years of our lives, Mrs. Miniver, Ben Hur)…. Sam Briskin, Jeff Chandler, Sidney and Harold Buckman, Robert Rossen (All the King’s Men) Robert Penn Warren) Elliot Nugent (James Thurber, “The male Animal)”), Sam Spigal (Lawrence of Arabia, Bridge of River Kwai, Doctor Zivago, Fanny and Alexandria))Nat Pendleton, $11 million David Geffen, the William Morris agency officeBoy! Zero Mostel (Springtime for Hitler), Arthur Gilbert, Gig Young, Mel Brooks, Sidney Harmon, Nick Conte, Peter Lorre, Paul Lukas, Allan Joslyn, Kent Taylor..
Boy of the Name Detective’s “What’s in a name?”
Shelly Winters, Evelyn Keyes, Sidney Skolsky’s “The Good Life from the N.Y. Post”
Of the those Olivia deHaviland born yesterdays , Evelyn Keyes stopped the Cream Cheese Bandit outside the men’s locker room. “What do you do for a living, Bandit?”
“I’m into finance,” he responded, lying up to his teeth, knowing Max Arno was tossing his silver coated Coney Island photo and words disc to talent at Columbia Studio, Max Arno, tossing the disc like a Filipino yoyo. “We got an opening in the mail room,.You available?” he asked the WW2 Chief Specialist (A),Treasure Island, under the Golden Gate’s span, the cable cars up from Market Street’s ‘Original Joe’s…..
IV
**Raymond Chandler once wrote” to be very poor and very beautiful is most probably a moral failure than an articulate success. Shakespeare would have done well in any generation because he would have refused to die in a corner; he would have taken the false goods and made them over….
He would have hated refinement as such, because it is always a withdrawal, ad he was much too tough
to shrink from anything.”
It’s been only the second time, your writer has been able to capture your effective and radiant spirit.
Therefore may I close, in wishing you the best of all possible act twos…”
November 28, 2016 The City that never sleeps
