not Professor Charles Titus nor Dr J. A. C. Grant to be their point guard, Cutrting the ribbon at their U/C Riverside branch....Dean McHeanry was the department’s unanimous choice.
How could they snub a Phi Beta Kappa colleague, surviving World War2 ,a distinguished presence on and off campus so much so he then went to Santa Cruz , cutting the ribbon there. .....metamorphosing as a star in the scissors galaxy of deterninism from its start up base at Beckeley .....subsequently Ralph Bunche, a Bruin, became Howard Univcersity Professor...into the United Natrions Secretariat... the Count Bernadette assassination, Nobel Peace Lauriate.
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"You thought they scrubbed you.. But Dr. Grant invited you to his Hawaiian style home off Sunset to tantalize your feathers with a role in the Department....getting an A plus from Dr Titus....but no Charlie, you saw fit to go your own way.
"Don’t deny it. You were sore at him. But you can’t pay attention. You’re alweays mooning in yourr private mind about some kind of cosmic destiny......tell me what is this great thing you’re always working on?" (Saul Bellow’s Humboldt’s Gift)
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All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players :
They have their exits and entrances; ............Amd one man in his time, plays many parts..His act being seven ages. As, first the infantt mewing andf puking in the nurse’s arms. And then the whining schoolboy, with his satchel and shining mooning face, creeping like snail, unwillingly to school And then the lover, sighing like furnace,with a woeful ballad made to his mistress’s eyebrow..Then the soldier full of strange oaths and bearded like the pard, jealous in honour, sullen and quick in quarrel, secking the bubble reputation, even in the cannon’s mouth....
And then the Justice,in fair round belly with good capon lined with eyes severe and beard of formal cut; full of wise saws and modern instances;
And so he plays his part.The sixth age shifts into the lean and slipper’d. With spectacles on nose and pouch on side;
His youthful hose, well saved,, a world too wide for his shrunk shank; and his big manly voice, turns again toward childish treble, pipes and whistles in his sound.
Last scene of all. Tha t ends this strange eventful history is second childishness and mere oblivion. .....sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything
(The Bard’s "As you like it" 1600)
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"So tell me Major Fenton," said the once Brooklynite of Crown Heights, his fatrher owning a grocery store before the Friedman clan migrated to the L:os Angeles basin. Leading the good life, the daughter once a substitute teacher in choral reading and chorus (under maestro Ben Chancy at Midwood High School) she hitched her star to Tricky Nixon’s own arpeggios and splinters from sitting on the Whittier College football bench...Nixon burger drive in rising on
those once stately orange groves.
Raising three boys in the orange grove environs of Fullerton Before the quirky freeways emasculated the landscape, ambitious developers bought the groves, putting up clean cut look aslike sub divivions of "ET" two bedrroom two car garages homes,.the tvee antennas on rooftoips aqs far as the eye could see.(Anaheim North Long Beach Lakewood Palm Desert Simi Valley 29 Palms Indio San Jacinto Sepulveda Woodland Hills Chatsworth Agoura Platt Ranch West Hills (Francis Lederer, "Confessions of a Nazi Spy" developer)
Hollywood Los Feliz Westchester (Norman Schacter, NFL referee and Byrd Jr. High principoal) Burbank LaCanada Lacracentta Sepulveda Bell Gardens Desert Hot Springs Joshua Tree
Northridge Pico Rivera Garfield High School reality scene
Northridge Pasadena Sierra Madre Eagle Rock Highland Park Los Angeles Altadena Azusa Alhambra Silver Lake Mar Vista Echo Park MacArthur Park Tuluca Lake Cheviot Hills Marina Del Rey Westwood Village Hemet Miracle Mile Hancock Park Hollywood&Vine Vermont Canyon Belmont Shore Signal Hill Beverly&Fairfax Farmers Market Universal City Gardena Vernon Yucca Valley Claremont (college)
Cemeteries Eden Memorial, San Fernando Forest Lawn, Hollywood Los AngelesUpland PacoimaVenice Masrina del Rey Culver City( Glen Gray&his Case Loma band) East Los Angeles barrio Lincoln Heights s Boyle Heights El Sereno La Habra Granada Hills (coach Elroy nurtured son John, at the high school) Sylmar San Fernando Pacoima. West Los Angeles Brentwood Ocean Park .... Santa Monica Pacific Palisades Pico Torrance Compton Van Nuys North Hollywood West Hollywood Maywood South Central Avenue Montecido Tujunga
Inglewood Saugus Sherman Oaks Victorvillle Apple Valley City Terrace
South Gate Costa Mesa Laguna Beach Malibu Piusmo Beach Ventura 1999 Oaks Redonda Beach Hermosaa Beach Huntington Beach Palmdale Sun Valley Verdugo Hills Reseda Canoga Park San Pedro Valencia ..........
Sherman Oaks Studio City Temple City San Clemente Valley Villasge South Pasadena Hollenbeck Belvedere Gardens Sunset Strip Bev erly Hills Hotel Bevewrly Hills Tennis Club restaurant Row LaCienega tennis courts Beverley Hills Park tennis courts
Temple Isaiah 20th Century Sutio MGM Columbia at Gower Gulch
Warner Brothers Walt Disney Republic CBS tee vee Studio
City, LA. Tennis Club on North Rossmore ( Herby Flam Jack Kramer Pancho Gonzales Perry T. Jones director.) Westside Tennis Club Tarzan’s Lex Barker, Ray Milland ("Lost Weekend").Greg Bautzer, Eddie Belkind, Eva Marton (uncle, George Marton,second uynit director "Kimg Solomon Mines") tennis pro, Bob Harmon....
Santa Monica’s Lincoln tennis courts, Shangri-la apartent hotel, the Rand Global Gathering, Ocean Avenue (Law of Contracts on Mars)
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" Com’ on, Major Fenton.. The wash of sound? Tell the looney tunes as it is" beseeched the former vending manchine and p. o. zip confinement
"Spill the beans on Joe Paterno in the Bay Ridge Catholic League. Youy never played againbst him nor his brother. But Coach Coach identified with you at Boys and Giros duyring those recruiting tripos iunto the Beford Stuy inner city.,
Afterwards he responded to your notes twice.....why so? His legacy with the Nittany Lions tarnished with the NCAA fining the Happy Valley divinity with a 6t0 million $ fine, loss oif 20 or wso scholarships and the jack hammering of Poppa Joe’s statute outside the blood sweat and tears spilled over his six decades of determinism at Happy Valley."the NCAA "null&void" the winningest coach victories in collegiate gridiron history.\
"I never met Jerry Sandusky," as the Major and Marviola focused in on the nerd from U/C Riversdie who crashed in a Denver Colorqado subur....his scenario as an 18 year old insulated San Diego preppie like socfcar track and cross country...his mon into her role as a nurse. His pops playing out his as a manager of a software company. Six years later he driops out of PHDm program at University of Colorado Medical SAchool....
"You have to loose yourself to find yourself"
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"Identifying with the Batman’s nemesis, the Jooker. Dying his hair red, the black coat and hat, .He could never find his true self, Maravilla. He once had a soul But he may have fettrerd it away in Riversdie, during his undergraduate yesterdays..
"He lost it all on fast women and slow horses said Willie Pep .
Dusty Acres San Bernardino .......too hot to handle in his nsearch for himself, Marv,"nodded the retiree AF officer whose own yesterdays at March Air Force Base outsdide the campus. Or Lowery ,the Denver base...
Rremember Ir’s marriage in Inglewood?. Didn’t he live in Aurora.....
"And thew two Marko pizza restaurants in Denver....the Moose’s nephew."Marko’s Ne se ce pas. Nes cepas?"
Dorothy Roberrts, the head counselor at Verdugo Hills High, "the kids state of mind are in their teacher’s qualitative semester scenarios," she said, handing them to Fenton.
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Ther two confederates intio their Los Abgekles basin dialogue...Marviola and his Crowb Heiughts paternalism, the family into migration. His sister, a chorale chorus music sub undere maestro Ben Chancy at Midwood High School.
She migrated to Fullerton, once the site of Orange Orchids, before the developers changed the landscape......the Apple Valey syndrome, the ET scenario sweeping thru the sub disvisions...acres into lots.....rasiing three sons, her brother consumed by vending machines and seeking security tossing letters in the spectrum of zip codes in the Southern California turf.
Victorville Oxnard Saugus Noirth Hollywood East Los Angeles Lincoln Heights El Sereno the Barrio Boyle Heights Terminal Annex p.o Santa Ana Santa Monica Venice Ocean Park Pacific Palisades Brentwood Hollywood Los Angeles Beverely Hills West Los Angeles Costa Mesa North Long Beach
Compton South Gate Van Nuiys Reseda Woodland Hills Topango Canyon Platt Ranch Canoga Park Santa Barbara Long Beach North Long Beach Baldwin Hills El Monte Upland Pacoima Sun Valley Burbank Glendale LaCresenta San Marino Sierra Madre Flintridge Pasadena
Altadena Alhambra Lancaster West Covina Fontana Calabasas Hills El Monte Pico Torrance South Gate El Toro Artesia Loma Linda Ojai Maywood Montebello Monrovia Nortrh Long Beach......
Cemeteries Eden Memorial, San Fernando Forest Lawn, Los Angeles, HollywoodEl Segundo AF Base Verdugo Hills Troiusdale Estates Bel Air (Stone Canyon Bellagio Roads) Lake Elsinore Alvera Street Union Station. Skidrow Pershing Square Biltmore Hotel
Billy Graham ‘s dress rehearsals, adjacent to the library.....
City Hall, Mayor Tom Bradley, LA Times, Dorothy Chandler’s Music Center , Stairs that ascented to the City’s heightUSC and the Trojan landmark off Figeroa...the dance halls. Bars on Main Satreet the barber college, the Spanish speaking movie palaces two burlesques
(Ginger Britton, Betty Rowland)
‘’The Coliseum Hollywood Bowl KUSC radio station Hollywood Citizen News......Capitol Records the recording studio for military USO
welcopming center on Sunset (Shirley Temple,. Bette Davis, **Tony Martrin**) and Hollywood&Vine)
Brown Derby(s) Ambassador Hotel on Wilshire Arvo Van Alstyne’s Yale Law School (Loyola. Law) Southestern’s e;levator law classes.....
Carthay Circle ("Four Feathers" "A Dual in the Sun" Gregory Peck Joseph Cotton)
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Like two refugees into the new world, reengaging their pass portrs at the Hollywood Greyhound bus stop on Highland, down aways from Hollywood High (Midwood High’s Howard Goldman, his father, the manager of Adam Hats, on the Boulevard,their elevator apartment on North Mariposa)
Billy Berg’s jazz emporium ( Dizzy Gillipsie, the Bird’s bee bop) Palladium for dancing. Venice’spier Jimmy Dorsey (Tommy?) Ocean Parl’s Casino Gardens..their p[enny arcade machines, the merry go round on Santa Monica’s pier, the bingo games for the "oldies" Venice pier’s diving bell the roller skating rink for Charlie Chaplin’s persona...derby, mustachio, pegged pants, cane.
Maren Ellwood’s school for writers across the way. Carl Foreman, Howard Lindsay’s son in klaw, a reader at Warner Brothers, Mark Myersom"Don’t take a regular nine to five job. Substitute."
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In the meantime at the Knickerbocker Hotel brunch, Harry Revel, the piano oplayer and composer...Parius the Spring, the Surragate Courtr Blues took from his paqper bag slits of butter. Victor McClagen ("The Imformer") waving, tossed oiranges from his Valley grove unto the table.
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But the reminiscing ended when the two men came to the tragedies and disqappearing acts of trhier contemporaries.......at the Sawtelle Neuropsychiatric Hospital in Brentwood.....Fenton on the catatonic ward (long before his fkight to Rome,Italy for a thirty day Experiment in International Living and his military experience of some 18-23 years.....
Pacing the ward, Fenton graced a patient, clad in his pajamas. "Julie, what the Hell are you doing here. Among the catatonics. You should be scribbling your track&field studff for Ucla’s Daily Bruin.....We wondered about your vanishing reality scene. What happened, Jluie......"
Julie looked up...."Fenton,why you?. Could have hit bottom in skidrow.....going with my steady to the Zuma Beach. Carousing necking big time.. My libido was so aroused, she turned the lights off and I uncontrollably snapped. My old man pulled strings, got me into Sawtelle....a veteran."
"But in the next moment we were strapping Julie down, holding him by the ankles as the psychiatrists adm inistered electric shock......is body tremors...a heavy price to pay for his emasculation. And crack up in the semi tropical fantasy traffic.
Exaltation.......Jubilation
XI
"So tell me Major, what’s your take on the Joker mailing the plan of of his Century 16 theater 9 massacre to his mentor and psychiatrist at the University of Colorado after he washed out on his orals.."
"His inner need for reognition, playing out A premeditation as they say in the annals oif Criminal Law His confession, the Joker’s need to be caught. Captured, apprehended going down in flames, Marviola. No love life, that was his claim to notoriety. Ten minutes of fame.....for a single in his tailspin. Taking the audience with him in mayhem.
" Remember the "Blue Max" with George Peppard. Helmeted, piloting his fantrasy ,seeking revenge."
A single stud of a loner No military experience, no European experience. Hisa video game expertise may have gone to his video game strategies, his experience as a camp counselor precludes his persecution complex. A need to be captured alive."Murder he wrote"An authority figure in search of his role, mowing down his captive audience... Writing his own unfulfilled wish fulfillment....
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*"All the world’s a stage, And all the men and women merely players.....
**TonyMartin passed on the next day at 98.Natural courses in West Los Angeles.
July 27, 2012 Olympic Games opening ceremonies.....London, England
