tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42442285337833061542024-03-14T03:49:59.991-04:00Cantara’s (Social) NotebookCantarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135251374138680349noreply@blogger.comBlogger116125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244228533783306154.post-69578168178090731402011-11-06T10:45:00.003-05:002020-05-14T20:28:43.085-04:00Rules for the Revolution<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Do I have to come back to America and slap you all upside the head? Even the Weather Underground wouldn't have fucked up as much as you have.<br />
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All right<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 13px;">—</span>here are the rules for the revolution:<br />
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<li><a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2011/11/05/video-occupiers-use-kids-to-block-dc-convention-center" target="_blank">DO NOT bring the children</a>. For Christ's sake leave them with the sitter. Children who are too young to understand the cause shouldn't be put in jeopardy for the cause. </li>
<li>DO NOT make life harder for the elderly and infirm. </li>
<li>Appoint leaders. Yes, you're going to have to do this. You can throw them to the wolves later.</li>
<li><a href="http://www.oregonlive.com/portland/index.ssf/2011/10/in_downtown_portland_fears_tha.html" target="_blank">Hide the money</a>! Your leaders can do this for you. </li>
<li>DO NOT let in spongers.</li>
<li>Cut out the luxuries! NO MORE organic chicken dinners and sheep's-milk-cheese salads!</li>
<li><a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/zuccotti_hell_kitchen_i5biNyYYhpa8MSYIL9xSDL" target="_blank">DO NOT disrespect</a> your food crew! </li>
<li><a href="http://gothamist.com/2011/10/21/quality_of_life_meeting_occupy_wall.php" target="_blank">DO respect your environment</a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 13px;">—</span>which includes its <i>permanent</i> residents. <i><br />
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<li>Rally to a SPECIFIC CAUSE. This is a strength, not a weakness.</li>
<li>ARTICULATE THE FUCKING MISSION!!! Failure to do this is what undid the Weather Underground.</li>
<li>If you're going to long-term live/demonstrate in the street the cops and the conservatives aren't your worst enemy<span class="Apple-style-span" style="background-color: white; color: #666666; font-family: "trebuchet ms" , "trebuchet" , "verdana" , sans-serif; font-size: 14px; line-height: 13px;">—</span><a href="http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/zuccotti_park_big_top_ilBy4VfYIwDGt2I1rM33vL" target="_blank">it's the street itself</a>. </li>
<li>Put down that fucking laptop and stop blogging. THIS ISN'T SPAIN AND YOU'RE NO GEORGE ORWELL. Orwell was up in the hills with a rifle. After the war, then he wrote.</li>
<li>STOP PLAYING TO THE CAMERAS!</li>
<li><a href="http://newyorkpost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/god_awful_ows_mob_VqPjFDW0n234NhA9hxsxnL" target="_blank"><b>Update: And for Christ's sake--literally--DON'T STEAL FROM OR VANDALIZE CHURCHES!</b></a></li>
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My husband marched in Selma specifically to protect black voters and defend the Voting Rights Act of 1965. My aunt in Manila was part of a human cordon of nuns who protected ballot boxes from being stolen and destroyed by Marcos's thugs. I'm part Catalonian and for all I know I had cousins up there in the hills with Orwell.<br />
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Now, behave yourselves or I'll strap you all to a chair and fucking make you watch <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Running_on_Empty_%281988_film%29" target="_blank">Running on Empty</a></i> till you puke.<br />
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Take a close and objective look at the angry demonstrators now gathered on Wall Street, and at similar protest encampments burgeoning from San Francisco to Madrid. What you see is not simply a vast expression of rage at the crisis enveloping the world of democracy.<br />
The demonstrations also frame a fundamental contradiction—a profound source of strength that has been transformed into a disabling weakness.<br />
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They deserve enormous credit for drawing a global spotlight to the perpetrators of that crisis: a sinister cabal of financial scamsters and rightwing politicians, backed by the <b>dubiously “grassroots”</b> electorate of the Tea Party. What almost no one, on the right or left alike, wants to talk about is that the cabal was empowered by the very people who are now denouncing it.<br />
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<b>Progressives, out of a mixture of political correctness and embarrassment, carefully avoid the subject. </b>The Republicans are delighted at the silence, because it masks what should be fatal weaknesses in their own position. <br />
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It may not be pleasant to hear, but a massive Democratic voter copout in last year’s elections is what put the reactionary right in the driver’s seat, creating the disastrous logjam in Congress, and bringing to a dead halt the hyperactive first two years of the Obama Administration.<br />
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<i style="font-style: italic;">Copout at the Polls</i><br />
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In 2008, more than 65 million Americans cast Democratic votes in Congressional races, a 13 million-vote edge over the Republicans. In 2010, the Democratic vote plummeted to an abysmal 35 million, 6 million less than the GOP, which took decisive power in the House and paralyzed the Senate. <br />
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We think we know this story. But the truth is, we haven’t begun to absorb its full details and implications yet:<br />
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<li>The number of voters under 24 who bothered to go to the polls in 2010 dropped by a stupefying 60 percent, and those between 24 and 29 by almost 50 percent. Altogether, the participation of young people—who had been overwhelmingly pro-Obama in 2008– declined by 11 million votes.</li>
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<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Among over-65-year-olds, the core of the Tea Party Movement, the voting numbers barely changed, from 17.6 million in 2008 to 17.5 million in 2010.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">The African-American vote fell by 40 percent, and the Hispanic vote by almost 30 percent.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Among the mostly white voters who earn more than $200,000 per year, the turnout fell by a scant 5 percent, from 7 million to 6.5 million.</span></li>
<li><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-style: normal;">Voting by those with annual incomes under $30,000 dropped by 33 percent, more than six times the figure for the affluent.</span></li>
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In effect, the abstainers turned a potential Democratic landslide into a full-scale collapse—with nightmarish consequences for civil rights, for the U.S. and world economies, and for social programs that range across the board from health care and educational funding to employment programs, pension benefits and the sagging national infrastructure.<br />
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It was a dream come true for the radical right, the sworn enemies of all public services. Their vote, measured at exit polls asking whether government was too intrusive, scarcely changed between the two elections, dropping from 50 million to 47 million.<br />
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At the same time, the number of voters believing that government should do more for its citizens—the central plank of the progressive platform—sunk from 60 million to 32 million, a staggering 47 percent slide.<br />
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These are astronomical, game-changing numbers. It makes no sense to argue that the Democratic voting collapse was a matter of demoralization. Decisions on whether to go to the polls were made by the early autumn of 2010, just 20 months into an Obama Administration that had pushed through what many analysts regard as the most ambitious legislative agenda in modern US history. <br />
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Half a century ago, Martin Luther King and Cesar Chavez understood that genuine change could only be achieved through long term, patient struggle—and that the prize, in King’s famous words, was full access to the nation’s key institutions, notably the ballot box and the governing seats it fills.<br />
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The leaders and foot soldiers of the Civil Rights Era fought with unflagging commitment, and King himself was martyred, in a two-decade campaign for the voting privileges that 2010 abstainers dismissed as unworthy of an hour’s time on a single Tuesday in November. The Wall Street demonstrators are now debating an even broader boycott of the 2012 presidential election. <br />
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Yet if two-thirds of the 28 million progressive stay-at-homes had gone to the polls last year, the U.S. Congress today would be in the hands of a solid Democratic majority beholden to liberal votes. <br />
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<i style="font-style: italic;">The Republicans’ Best Hope</i><br />
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The nation’s key institutions stand at a momentous crossroads, ripe for fresh ideas and energy. <br />
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But in response, the anthem so far is nebulous anti-institutionalism, a “leaderless resistance movement,” as the Occupy Wall Street web site proudly boasts, without defined structure or goals. “It’s not any more about parties, organizations or unions,” declares the manifesto of its Spanish counterpart, the International Commission of Sol, which also calls for mass abstention from voting. <br />
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Visceral impatience is endemic today, especially where the young are concerned. The Internet Age, with its virtual substitutes for the real thing—for tangible community, for productive struggle—promises to deliver on every desire, easily and instantly. Just twitter a crowd into the streets, and the rest will fall into place. But the hard truth is that it takes far more than that. Ask the Iranians, the Tunisians and Egyptians, who are invariably cited as models by the Spanish and American protestors.<br />
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Neither easy nor instant solutions are possible when a society faces the challenges that greeted the incoming Obama Administration in January of 2009. The nation’s first African-American president took office amidst two unwinnable and unfunded wars and a global economic crash unparalleled since the Great Depression. He was confronted by a rabid political opposition that challenged the new president’s very right to govern on trumped-up charges that he is not certifiably “American”, when their transparent subtext was that he is not white.<br />
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As much as anything else, Barack Obama’s ascent to the presidency was about the slow work of acquiring power and responsibility in the machinery of representative government. So too were the many milestones that preceded his victory: the 1954 Supreme Court ruling that dismantled segregated schools; the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which prohibited discrimination based on race, color, religion or national origin; its elaboration in 1965 with a Voting Rights Act that removed the last obstacles to the polls, and a presidential executive order enforcing affirmative action guidelines. <br />
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<b>Each of those institutional steps flowed from the pressure exerted by election results, and each of them helped rewrite the terms of national life.</b> Only someone who was not alive in the 1950s, when the struggle began in earnest, could maintain that nothing important has changed in the United States since then. <br />
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It is far more accurate to say that almost everything has changed—which is what terrifies the conservative right. They recognize that the institutions of representative democracy are expressions of collective interest, and that the crucial vectors of population and age are aligned against them. <br />
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Their sole hope for turning back the clock lies in a new majority that doesn’t bother to vote.Cantarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135251374138680349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244228533783306154.post-60132649725176377952011-04-22T09:22:00.000-04:002024-03-13T00:51:51.346-04:00I’m Now a Fan of Candy Matson, PI<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Heard on NBC radio from San Francisco 1949-1951, Candy was the toughest and wittiest of all the female private investigators on the air. <i>Candy Matson, YU 2-8209</i> created by Monty Masters—husband of the star, <a href="http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0557701/board/nest/54506552" target="_blank">Natalie Masters</a>—also had some of the cleverest dialogue and well-plotted mystery scripts in broadcast drama. An added plus are the real-life Bay Area locations woven into each story. Candy’s love interest, SFPD Lt Ray Mallard, was played by Henry Leff, while her sometime sidekick, aptly named Rembrandt Watson, was played by Jack Thomas. Astonishingly for the early 50s, Rembrandt is obviously gay—<b>probably the first favorably portrayed homosexual on radio</b>. This episode, entitled “<a href="http://www.archive.org/download/OTRR_Candy_Matson_Singles/CandyMatson_1950-10-09_54TheFortOrdStory.mp3" target="_blank">The Fort Ord Story</a>”, is dedicated to my husband, novelist-editor Michael Matheny, who took his basic training in Fort Ord in 1967 before being shipped overseas.<br /><br />Cantarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135251374138680349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244228533783306154.post-74314167426538627222010-10-11T14:16:00.012-04:002022-03-08T01:27:55.216-05:00The Price of Freedom is Not Suicide by J.E. Freeman<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-F1IoRHlnCA8/TYoA2b7ccjI/AAAAAAAADxU/yYtgbOn044o/s1600/im-jefreeman.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="200" src="https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-F1IoRHlnCA8/TYoA2b7ccjI/AAAAAAAADxU/yYtgbOn044o/s200/im-jefreeman.jpg" width="159" /></a></div>An old friend from San Francisco, the tough-guy actor and outspoken gay activist J.E. Freeman, just sent this poem to me and asked if I could repost it for <b>National Coming Out Day</b>, which I am very glad to do, as the suicides of those young people are also weighing heavily on my mind:<br />
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Unfortunately to be free requires sometimes that one fight back<br />
The most expensive quality in life is freedom.<br />
Freedom is never free.<br />
Never without cost.<br />
The price is not caring what the price is<br />
The price is to dare to be unafraid.<br />
Or if afraid to stand any way in fear<br />
and to take what comes.<br />
For what else makes courage?<br />
How else are heroes made?<br />
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It is by facing that which we fear<br />
and surviving.<br />
It lies in requiring<br />
in demnding<br />
the haters to stand exposed<br />
in the light of their hatred<br />
which is only their own fear lashing out.<br />
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To kill one's self is to become one's own executioner.<br />
It is to buy into the verdict of the hater.<br />
If one must die for one's freedom<br />
make the hater do the killing <br />
do not accept that responsibility.<br />
Don't do it to your self.<br />
That is not your burden.<br />
Do not accept the blame.<br />
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If one must die for freedom<br />
then die in love with it<br />
just as one should live.<br />
In love and acceptance of the self.<br />
What another says is not true unless we agree<br />
in silence<br />
or acquiesence<br />
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Do not agree.<br />
Do not succumb.<br />
Be a witness for your own freedom.<br />
Stand up<br />
Fight Back<br />
Do not be a victim.<br />
Be a hero for yourself!<br />
What better sight to see in the morning<br />
than a hero's face looking back at you<br />
in the mirror laughing.<br />
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Ghandi stood up in a crowd.<br />
Jesus stood up on the cross alone<br />
King stood up on a balcony.<br />
Matthew Shepard stood up tied to a fence.<br />
They died yes<br />
But they did not kill themselves<br />
They did not accept the fear and hatefilled<br />
judgement of others.<br />
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Surprisingly though if you stand up<br />
strong with conviction<br />
sometimes<br />
the bully just might fade away,<br />
Shamed in the glare of his own hate<br />
and his own fear.<br />
I know I came out in the Marines in 1967<br />
I've never been afraid of being gay since.<br />
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Freedom isn't free.<br />
It's our most expensive right.<br />
It's priceless.<br />
it requires every person in search of freedom<br />
to ante up.<br />
Even if it kills you<br />
just don't kill yourself.<br />
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Love yourself instead.<br />
Scream it from the roof tops<br />
Scream your love of self in the face of the hater.<br />
scream....<br />
"LOVE IS ALL THERE IS!<br />
Why are you afraid?"<br />
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That's the Cost of Freedom<br />
All the love you've got.<br />
Especially for your SELF!<br />
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<a href="http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/06/driven-by-the-desire-to-create-the-next-viral-video.html" target="_blank">Ross Ching</a>'s vision of a carless LA. That's what I love about this city, all the possibilities. This posting is dedicated to my favorite car-free film producer, Marcia Nasatir.<br />
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Just posted on YouTube today is an <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCI0Yd57ZKA" target="_blank">hour-long talk</a> with Timothy J. Cooney (1929-1999), author of the book <i>Telling Right from Wrong: What is Moral, What is Immoral, and What is Neither One Nor the Other</i>. The blurb says:<br />
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An important contribution to the field of moral philosophy, this book provides an objective and precise answer to the question, “What is morality?” Moral philosophers, the author claims, have gotten bogged down in meta-ethical questions and now find themselves in a hopelessly relativistic position. Cooney develops a unique moral theory and isolates and explores the core of morality, separating actual moral issues from apparent ones.</blockquote>
It’s a slim book, only 158 pages, published in 1985 by the small press Prometheus Books after Random House rescinded their contract when Cooney admittedly forged a letter from the chairman of the philosophy department at Harvard that attested to its brilliance. And that not insignificant anecdote points to the reason I’m more interested at the moment in the man than in his philosophical definition of morality (which was lucidly discussed in a <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/1985/06/30/books/would-it-destroy-the-world.html?&pagewanted=all" target="_blank"><i>New York Times</i> review</a> of his book). Cooney was <b>an improviser</b>,<b> an autodidact</b>,<b> a self-publisher</b> (of his first two books), <b>an academic without affiliation</b>, who was proud to claim:<br />
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“My ideas evolved from long hours in local bars, talking, talking, talking, always about morality. People were always asking, ’Who do you think you are? Socrates?’ They said it with contempt, but I would smile and say, ’Thank you.’” </blockquote>
All through his life he had few possessions but a mountain of debts and got by, as the Beatles song goes, with a little help from his friends. One friend was his ex-wife Joan Ganz Cooney who, even though she went on to marry a former US Secretary of Commerce and win awards and fame for creating <i><a href="http://www.philosophynow.org/issue79/79madigan.htm">Sesame Street</a></i> and <i>The Electric Company</i>, never changed her last name.<br />
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A fine eulogy is posted by John Haber, Cooney’s editor, <a _blank="" href="http://www.haberarts.com/eulogy.htm" target="">here</a>. A summation of his philosophy is <a href="http://www.haberarts.com/cooney.htm" target="_blank">here</a>.Cantarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135251374138680349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244228533783306154.post-37750204554926564412010-03-07T16:00:00.007-05:002012-01-23T12:43:27.452-05:00A Reminder of Leonard Gyllenhaal<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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While doing the washing up after dinner last night I got to reflecting on Ed Gyllenhaal’s latest posting over at <b>New Church History</b>, which led to a train of thought that ended with the odious TV show <i>Jimmy Kimmel Live!</i> I should explain: Around last Christmas a young woman who claimed to be one of Kimmel’s producers contacted me to ask if I had in my possession, of all things, an original (!) copy of Swedenborgian entomologist Leonard Gyllenhaal’s 200-year-old masterwork <i><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/cantaraville/3288031749/in/set-72157617789215921/" target="_blank">Insecta Suecica</a></i> that the show could borrow for an upcoming appearance by Jake. I could only wonder how my interest in the history of Swedenborgianism had gotten around, but I was pretty damn sure that Kimmel was planning to bring up Jake’s <a href="http://cantarasnotebook.blogspot.com/2008/12/gyllenhaal-code.html">great-great-great-great grandfather</a> in order to crack a few “bug man” jokes—the same way he tried, not coincidentally, to crack a few cheap jokes about the <a href="http://gyllenhaal.org/index.html" target="_blank">Gyllenhaal noble line</a> when Maggie was on. Of course I don’t possess a copy of such a precious volume, and I really wanted to tell the producer to go to hell, but I didn’t think it within my rights. So I advised the woman to email Ed in Bryn Athyn with her request, certain that Ed, who’s definitely within <i>his</i> rights, would tell her go to to hell. (Although I think he’d do it in a nice way—nicer than the woman deserved—as Swedenborgians are nice people.)<br />
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Anyway, as I came back from the kitchen after doing the dishes I was startled to encounter in the middle of the living floor a huge black water beetle—how it got up here from the river way below our terrace God only knows. But beetles were a specialty of Leonard Gyllenhaal, so I took it as a reminder of his legacy and a good sign.<br />
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In the spring of 1941, during the Nazi Occupation of France, Lusseyran formed a Resistance group called the Volunteers of Liberty with fifty-two other boys; the group later merged with another Resistance group called Défense de la France.<br />
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In July 1943 Lusseyran was arrested by the Gestapo, betrayed by a weak-willed member of his group. He was sent to Buchenwald with two thousand other French citizens where, because he was blind, he was exempted from forced labor. Lusseyran helped to motivate a spirit of resistance at Buchenwald particularly within the French and German prisoners. In April 1945 when the British and Americans liberated the camp he was freed.<br />
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After the war Lusseyran taught French literature in the United States and wrote books, including the autobiographical <i><a href="http://www.morninglightpress.com/cgi-bin/mlp52/1185">And There Was Light</a></i>, which chronicles the first twenty years of his life. He died together with his third wife Marie in a car accident in France on 27 July 1971. He is survived by his four children.</span><br />
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_____</b>Cantarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135251374138680349noreply@blogger.comParis, France48.8566667 2.350987148.7437227 2.1175276000000003 48.9696107 2.5844466tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244228533783306154.post-27334860651704113072010-01-26T14:27:00.023-05:002011-04-30T21:44:38.165-04:00A Few Words on Hollywood from F. Scott Fitzgerald<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7W-O6K7RMQ4/Tby65cy0t7I/AAAAAAAAD4s/dcO2UCdj3TM/s1600/im-fscottfitzgerald.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-7W-O6K7RMQ4/Tby65cy0t7I/AAAAAAAAD4s/dcO2UCdj3TM/s320/im-fscottfitzgerald.jpg" width="225" /></a></div>A negro man came along the shore toward them, collecting the grunion quickly, like twigs, into two pails. They came in twos and threes and platoons and companies, relentless and exalted and scornful, around the great bare feet of the intruders, as they had come before Sir Francis Drake had nailed his plaque to the boulder on the shore.<br />
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“I wish for another pail,” the negro man said, resting a moment. <br />
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“You’ve come a long way out,” said Stahr. <br />
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“I used to go to Malibu, but they don’t like it, those moving picture people.” <br />
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A wave came in and forced them back, receded swiftly, leaving the sand alive again. <br />
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“Is it worth the trip?” Stahr asked. <br />
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“I don’t figure it that way. I really come out to read some Emerson. Have you ever read him?” <br />
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“I have,” said Kathleen. “Some.” <br />
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“I’ve got him inside my shirt. I got some Rosicrucian literature with me, too, but I’m fed up with them.”<br />
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The wind had changed a little, the waves were stronger further down, and they walked along the foaming edge of the water. <br />
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“What’s your work?” the negro asked Stahr. <br />
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“I work for the pictures.” <br />
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“Oh.” After a moment he added, “I never go to movies.” <br />
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“Why not?” asked Stahr sharply. <br />
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“There’s no profit. I never let my children go.” <br />
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Stahr watched him, and Kathleen watched Stahr protectively. <br />
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“Some of them are good,” she said, against a wave of spray; but he did not hear her. She felt she could contradict him and said it again, and this time he looked at her indifferently. <br />
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“Are the Rosicrucian brotherhood against pictures?” asked Stahr. <br />
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“Seems as if they don’t know what they are for. One week they for one thing and next week for another.”<br />
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Only the little fish were certain. Half an hour had gone, and still they came. The negro’s two pails were full, and finally he went off over the beach toward the road, unaware that he had rocked an industry.<br />
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<i>From Fitzgerald’s unfinished novel, The Love of the Last Tycoon: A Western</i><br />
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_____Cantarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135251374138680349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244228533783306154.post-77534048533468439862010-01-23T05:40:00.011-05:002011-04-30T22:03:08.441-04:00Conan’s Farewell Speech<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZaIVt_fLNnI/Tby9YuTcC0I/AAAAAAAAD40/B6ihF176mDA/s1600/im-conanobrien.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="320" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ZaIVt_fLNnI/Tby9YuTcC0I/AAAAAAAAD40/B6ihF176mDA/s320/im-conanobrien.jpg" width="260" /></a></div><a href="http://video.hollywoodreporter.com/services/player/bcpid6555681001?bctid=63041672001" target="_blank">Ladies and gentlemen</a>, before we bring this rodeo to a close, a few things need to be said. There has been a lot of speculation in the press about what I legally can and can’t say about NBC. This isn’t a joke, and to set the record straight, tonight I am allowed to say anything I want. And what I want to say is this: between my time at <i>Saturday Night Live</i>, <i>The Late Night Show</i>, and my brief run here on <i>The Tonight Show</i>, I’ve worked with NBC for over twenty years. Yes, we have our differences right now and yes, we’re going to go our separate ways. But this company has been my home for most of my adult life. I am enormously proud of the work we’ve done together, and I want to thank NBC for making it all possible. I really do.<br />
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A lot of people have been asking me about my state of mind. I’ll be honest with you: Walking away from <i>The Tonight Show</i> is the hardest thing I have ever had to do. Making this choice has been enormously difficult. This is the best job in the world, I absolutely love doing it, and I have the best staff and crew in the history of the history of the medium. I will fight anyone who says I don’t (but no one would). But despite this sense of loss, I really feel this should be a happy moment. Every comedian, <i>every</i> comedian, dreams of hosting <i>The Tonight Show</i> and for seven months I got to do it. I did it my way, with people I love, and I do not regret one second of anything that we’ve done here. I encounter people now when I walk on the street who give me a sort of sad look. I have had more good fortune than anyone I know and if our next gig is doing a show in a 7-11 parking lot, we would find a way to make it fun. We really would. (But I don’t want to do it in a 7-11 parking lot!)<br />
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Finally, I have to say something to our fans. This massive outpouring of support and passion from so many people has been overwhelming for me. The rallies, the signs, all the goofy, outrageous creativity on the internet. The fact that people have traveled long distances and camped out all night in the pouring rain... It’s pouring! It’s been pouring for days! And they’re camping out to be in our audience! Here’s what all of you have done. You have made a sad situation joyous and inspirational.<br />
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So to all the people watching, I can never ever thank you enough for the kindness to me [here his voice starts to break] and I’ll think about it for the rest of my life. And all I ask of you is one thing, and I’m asking this in particular from the young people that watch: please do not be cynical. I hate cynicism—for the record it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere.<br />
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Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you work really hard and you're kind, amazing things will happen. I’m telling you, amazing things will happen. It's just true. As proof, ladies and gentlemen, let’s make something amazing happen right now. Here to close out our show are a few good friends, led by Mr. Will Ferrell...<br />
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<i>[<a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?qgueydv8ug8k836" target="_blank">Surrender</a>]</i><br />
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People of Earth:<br />
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In the last few days I’ve been getting a lot of sympathy calls, and I want to start by making it clear that no one should waste a second feeling sorry for me. For 17 years, I’ve been getting paid to do what I love most and, in a world with real problems, I’ve been absurdly lucky. That said, I’ve been suddenly put in a very public predicament and my bosses are demanding an immediate decision.<br />
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Six years ago, I signed a contract with NBC to take over <i>The Tonight Show</i> in June of 2009. Like a lot of us, I grew up watching Johnny Carson every night and the chance to one day sit in that chair has meant everything to me. I worked long and hard to get that opportunity, passed up far more lucrative offers, and since 2004 I have spent literally hundreds of hours thinking of ways to extend the franchise long into the future. It was my mistaken belief that, like my predecessor, I would have the benefit of some time and, just as important, some degree of ratings support from the prime-time schedule. Building a lasting audience at 11:30 is impossible without both.<br />
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But sadly, we were never given that chance. After only seven months, with my <i>Tonight Show</i> in its infancy, NBC has decided to react to their terrible difficulties in prime-time by making a change in their long-established late night schedule.<br />
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Last Thursday, NBC executives told me they intended to move <i>The Tonight Show</i> to 12:05 to accommodate the <i>Jay Leno Show</i> at 11:35. For 60 years <i>The Tonight Show</i> has aired immediately following the late local news. I sincerely believe that delaying <i>The Tonight Show</i> into the next day to accommodate another comedy program will seriously damage what I consider to be the greatest franchise in the history of broadcasting. <i>The Tonight Show</i> at 12:05 simply isn’t <i>The Tonight Show</i>. Also, if I accept this move I will be knocking the <i>Late Night</i> show, which I inherited from David Letterman and passed on to Jimmy Fallon, out of its long-held time slot. That would hurt the other NBC franchise that I love, and it would be unfair to Jimmy.<br />
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So it has come to this: I cannot express in words how much I enjoy hosting this program and what an enormous personal disappointment it is for me to consider losing it. My staff and I have worked unbelievably hard and we are very proud of our contribution to the legacy of <i>The Tonight Show</i>. But I cannot participate in what I honestly believe is its destruction. Some people will make the argument that with DVRs and the internet a time slot doesn’t matter. But with <i>The Tonight Show,</i> I believe nothing could matter more.<br />
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There has been speculation about my going to another network but, to set the record straight, I currently have no other offer and honestly have no idea what happens next. My hope is that NBC and I can resolve this quickly so that my staff, crew, and I can do a show we can be proud of, for a company that values our work.<br />
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Have a great day and, for the record, I am truly sorry about my hair; it’s always been that way.<br />
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Yours, Conan<br />
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_____Cantarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135251374138680349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244228533783306154.post-65575101775811529762010-01-12T17:45:00.086-05:002011-04-30T22:24:28.250-04:00Happy 100th Birthday, Oscar Winner Luise Rainer! (And I Forgive You for Playing O-Lan)Luise Rainer...who made her screen debut as a teenager and appeared in three other German-language films in the early ‘30s, terminated her European career when the Austrian Adolf Hitler consolidated his power in Germany. With his vicious anti-Semitism, his imposition of a police state in Germany, and his desire for an anschluss between Austria and <i>Der Vaterland</i>, Hitler was a threat to European Jewry. Rainer had been spotted by a talent scout, who offered her a seven-year contract with the American studio Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The 25-year-old Rainer took the deal and emigrated to the United States.<br />
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<a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8lCE5aT1wQg/TbzEOvkW96I/AAAAAAAAD5E/eDcwYSrmLNA/s1600/im-luiserainer2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-8lCE5aT1wQg/TbzEOvkW96I/AAAAAAAAD5E/eDcwYSrmLNA/s400/im-luiserainer2.jpg" width="310" /></a>...During the making of <i>Escapade,</i> Rainer met and fell in love with the left-wing playwright Clifford Odets, then at the height of his fame. They were married in 1937. It was not a happy union...<br />
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Rainer would allay any backbiting from Hollywood's bovines over her first Oscar with her performance as O-Lan in MGM producer Irving Thalberg’s spectacular adaptation of Pearl S. Buck’s <i>The Good Earth</i>, the former Boy Wonder's final picture before his untimely death. The role won Rainer her second Best Actress Award. The success of <i>The Good Earth</i> (1937) was rooted in its realism, and its realism was enhanced by Rainer’s acting opposite the legendary Paul Muni as her husband. When Thalberg cast Muni in the role of Wang Lung, he had to abandon any thought of casting the Chinese-American actress Anna May Wong as O-Lan as the Hays Office would not allow the hint of miscegenation, even between an actual Chinese woman and a Caucasian actor in yellow-face drag... <i>[<a href="source: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0707023/bio" target="_blank">More</a>]</i><br />
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Liner notes: Frank Loesser wrote the music and lyrics; it won the Oscar for Best Song in 1949; it was from the movie <i>Neptune’s Daughter</i> in which Ricardo Montalban sang it to Esther Williams (on dry land, I think). There is some controversy as to whether this is a song about date rape—“Hey, what’s in this drink?”—to which I say: screw you. Gals have got no sense of playfulness anymore. There's a juiceless version of this song at YouTube with Michael Buble and Jane Monheit and a creamy one with Dean Martin that makes you want to crawl into bed with him. But the best one overall, where the arrangement and the voices really shine together, is the one sung by Margaret Whiting and Johnny Mercer.<br />
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Enjoy—and Happy New Year!<br />
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<i>[</i><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?c8z3gcyk0c6k3wj" style="font-style: italic;" target="_blank">Baby It’s</a><i style="font-style: italic;"><a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?c8z3gcyk0c6k3wj" target="_blank"> Cold Outside</a>]</i><br />
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<i> _____</i>Cantarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135251374138680349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244228533783306154.post-12106328703695367072009-12-25T09:57:00.060-05:002012-01-23T21:28:21.443-05:00“An LSD Christmas” Revisited<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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My lit quarterly <i>Cantaraville</i> was lucky enough to get acquaintance Stephen Tobolowsky to contribute a written version of his soon-to-be periennial classic “An LSD Christmas” to the special free Winter issue, which can be read and downloaded here.<br />
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Tobolowsky’s story can be heard in different versions, in the film <i><a href="http://stbpmovie.com/" target="_blank">Stephen Tobolowsky’s Birthday Party</a></i> (directed by Robert Brinkmann) and now—thanks to Slashfilmcast producer David Chen—in audio <a href="http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/12/25/the-tobolowsky-files-ep-9-a-christmas-memory/" target="_blank">podcast</a> at the two-month old <i>Tobolowsky Files</i>.<br />
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So gather the family around the old laptop, and remember, when the dog talks, you listen.<br />
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<br />Cantarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135251374138680349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244228533783306154.post-62880571691034411182009-12-08T00:00:00.032-05:002012-01-29T00:12:23.528-05:00Auditioning to be the Next Danny Kaye<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Besides being able to act, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXi3bjKowJU" target="_blank">sing tenderly</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hh-wOvuOHPE" target="_blank">sing patter</a>, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OWGhRmV60nM" target="_blank">dance</a>, move like and elf, <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0bzJmnm7h1U" target="_blank"></a>and make people laugh <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm-GUVDg7I8" target="_blank">without uttering a word</a>, the next Danny Kaye also has to demonstrate a genuine desire to put a smile on a child’s face and a genuine interest in other people.<br />
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You hear that, <a href="http://www.contactmusic.com/news.nsf/story/mum-wants-gyllenhaal-to-be-danny-kaye_1124702" target="_blank">Naomi</a>? Au suivant!Cantarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135251374138680349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244228533783306154.post-87542564797218226142009-10-31T03:00:00.007-04:002012-01-28T11:05:49.941-05:00A Happy Edgar Allan Poe to Round Out October<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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This October (on the seventh, to be exact) marked the 150th anniversary of the birth of one of America’s greatest imaginists. <a href="http://www.box.net/shared/static/e38k01u8kl.pdf" target="_blank">Here</a> for your delectation is not one of his usual shivery slimy nightmares but a very satisfying tale indeed of love, revenge and menchhood...Cantarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135251374138680349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244228533783306154.post-2113903059612321782009-10-30T10:45:00.007-04:002012-01-23T21:22:02.086-05:00Stephen Tobolowsky, Master Storyteller<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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I was turned on to the wonderful, un-pigeonholeable 2005 film <i>Stephen Tobolowsky’s Birthday Party</i> by none other than the director, Robert Brinkmann, who happens to be a mutual acquaintance of an old friend from San Francisco theater, as well by Tobolowsky himself. I talk a little about <i>STBP</i> in an earlier posting which you can find <a href="http://cantarasnotebook.blogspot.com/2009/05/happy-birthday-stephen-tobolowsky.html">here</a>.<br />
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Fans have been clamoring for more of the big guy, and now in response comes <i>The Tobolowsky Files</i>, a series of videos in which he shares more of his incredible, funny and poignant life stories. For the audio portion of his Halloween tale, click <a href="http://www.slashfilm.com/2009/10/29/introducing-a-new-film-podcast-the-tobolowsky-files-episode-1-sex-death-and-halloween/" target="_blank">here</a> to listen. You’re in for a (trick or) treat!<br />
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Want more Tobolowsky? His hilarious story, “An LSD Christmas”, was published in last year’s winter issue of <i>Cantaraville</i>, which you can read and download at my <a href="http://cantarasnotebook.blogspot.com/2009/05/happy-birthday-stephen-tobolowsky.html">earlier posting</a>. The editors of <i>Cantaraville</i> are pleased to announce that “An LSD Christmas” was nominated for a Best of the Web award.<br />
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I’ve just been asked by fellow publisher, Sandra Sanchez of the Wessex Collective, to pass on the story of Irene Sendler, who died last year at the age of 98. And so <a href="http://www.box.net/shared/79626183qv" target="_blank">here</a> it is.Cantarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135251374138680349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244228533783306154.post-49390712772250340552009-10-28T11:22:00.006-04:002011-04-30T23:02:03.532-04:00A Manly Tale by Norman Mailer<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFpWigHN11tTJPYn_7vGG5k0qPXBGtL7SimuvduTeEiRMAsA-sMCmDZJS37eb68jFPHx6o0bJNNIyFO77AzcDQQNQ3om22XgXkEAr7RjJA0P4ihrOLbuNDJU7JSZXbbZINQmtdxm-j_Ns/s320/mailer-on-life.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFpWigHN11tTJPYn_7vGG5k0qPXBGtL7SimuvduTeEiRMAsA-sMCmDZJS37eb68jFPHx6o0bJNNIyFO77AzcDQQNQ3om22XgXkEAr7RjJA0P4ihrOLbuNDJU7JSZXbbZINQmtdxm-j_Ns/s400/mailer-on-life.jpg" width="300" /></a></div>Mailer’s first short story published by <i>Esquire</i> is <a href="http://www.box.net/shared/static/5vg3dvx6xs.pdf" target="_blank">this</a> view of army life during the Korean War. It’s appropriate reading for <i>Mad Men</i> fans who’d like to understand better where Dick Whitman’s coming from.<br />
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_____Cantarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135251374138680349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244228533783306154.post-40956321949838796372009-10-21T03:00:00.004-04:002011-04-30T23:06:31.118-04:00Comemmorating Jack Kerouac’s Passing<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UFiVmxMVRZQ/TbzOCCpYKvI/AAAAAAAAD5I/XR8r3Elv2S0/s1600/im-jackkerouac.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="260" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-UFiVmxMVRZQ/TbzOCCpYKvI/AAAAAAAAD5I/XR8r3Elv2S0/s400/im-jackkerouac.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Jack Kerouac died forty years ago today at the age of 47, in many ways an alien to my generation. But was he a free man? About as free as any of us can be, I suppose. And he could write like an angel.<br />
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Kerouac’s technique, which he called Spontaneous Prose, was a subject he loved to cover over and over again. Here’s his list of thirty essentials under the title “Belief and Technique for Modern Prose”:<br />
<blockquote>1. Scribbled secret notebooks, and wild typewritten pages, for your own joy<br />
2. Submissive to everything, open, listening<br />
3. Try never get drunk outside your own house<br />
4. Be in love with your life<br />
5. Something that you feel will find its own form<br />
6. Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind<br />
7. Blow as deep as you want to blow<br />
8. Write what you want bottomless from bottom of the mind<br />
9. The unspeakable visions of the individual<br />
10. No time for poetry but exactly what is<br />
11. Visionary tics shivering in the chest<br />
12. In tranced fixation dreaming upon object before you<br />
13. Remove literary, grammatical and syntactical inhibition<br />
14. Like Proust be an old teahead of time<br />
15. Telling the true story of the world in interior monolog<br />
16. The jewel center of interest is the eye within the eye<br />
17. Write in recollection and amazement for yourself<br />
18. Work from pithy middle eye out, swimming in language sea<br />
19. Accept loss forever<br />
20. Believe in the holy contour of life<br />
21. Struggle to sketch the flow that already exists intact in mind<br />
22. Don’t think of words when you stop but to see picture better<br />
23. Keep track of every day the date emblazoned in yr morning<br />
24. No fear or shame in the dignity of yr experience, language & knowledge<br />
25. Write for the world to read and see yr exact pictures of it<br />
26. Bookmovie is the movie in words, the visual American form<br />
27. In praise of Character in the Bleak inhuman Loneliness<br />
28. Composing wild, undisciplined, pure, coming in from under, crazier the better<br />
29. You’re a Genius all the time<br />
30. Writer-Director of Earthly movies Sponsored & Angeled in Heaven</blockquote><b><span style="font-family: Arial; font-size: xx-small;"><a href="http://ymlp.com/xghbwyjgmgj" target="_blank">SUBSCRIBE TO MY OCCASIONAL NEWSLETTER. CLICK HERE.</a></span></b> <br />
_____Cantarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135251374138680349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244228533783306154.post-32348638267199261622009-10-15T12:37:00.003-04:002012-01-23T21:06:45.364-05:00The Most Despised Bosses in Hollywood<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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As a former Hollywood temp myself, I take a quiet pleasure in this list, courtesy of <a href="http://www.tempdiaries.com/" target="_blank">The Hollywood Temp Diaries</a>.<br />
<br />Cantarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135251374138680349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244228533783306154.post-18793609423963566932009-10-01T11:54:00.004-04:002012-01-23T21:36:09.690-05:00Playing the Three-Books-on-a-Desert-Island GameHere are mine for the moment:<br />
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<li><i>Ulysses</i> by James Joyce (already read, bears rereading)<br />
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<li><i>Heaven and Hell</i> by Emanuel Swedenborg (ditto)<br />
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<li><i>The Golden Notebook</i> by Doris Lessing (always meant to read)</li>
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(Also see "<a href="http://cantarasnotebook.blogspot.com/2010/09/happy-60th-birthday-john-sayles-or.html">Happy Birthday, John Sayles, or Which Three Books Would You Choose?</a>")<br />
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_____Cantarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135251374138680349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244228533783306154.post-44845371096653364452009-09-27T03:00:00.017-04:002011-04-30T23:37:28.914-04:00A Footnote to Mad Men<div style="text-align: right;"></div>To recap “Guy Walks Into an Advertising Agency”, <b>episode six</b> of the season: Sally had nightmares and believed her new baby brother was the reincarnation of Grandpa Gene. Betty tried to fix this by giving her a Barbie doll for a present, which she chucked out her bedroom window, only to have her father find it and place it back on her dresser while she was sleeping, causing one hell of a scream when she woke up.<br />
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-H5JlpUoI634/TYkCobbPu0I/AAAAAAAADwc/uJ77F_VM5HQ/s1600/im-mmguywalksin.png" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="176" src="https://lh6.googleusercontent.com/-H5JlpUoI634/TYkCobbPu0I/AAAAAAAADwc/uJ77F_VM5HQ/s320/im-mmguywalksin.png" width="320" /></a></div>Messing up their Fourth of July two-day holiday, the British high mucky-mucks of parent company PPL came to visit Sterling Cooper, including one handsome young chap on the rise named—can you beat it?—<i>Guy</i> McKendrick, who it became clear was poised to become Don’s new boss. Still, everyone was impressed with the dapper Brit, including Joan, whose last day at SC this was. Lane, who McKendrick was to replace, was ordered by PPL to go to India.<br />
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At the same time in a private meeting, Don once again encountered the old man from the country club, Connie, who, as a lot of fans guessed, was indeed Conrad Hilton.<br />
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To celebrate the British Invasion of SC drinks and canapes were served, and for everyone’s cabaret amusement Smitty showed a very squiffy Lois (remember Lois from the switchboard, now Paul Kinsey’s secretary?) how to drive a John Deere lawnmower through the office. Oh, did I forget to tell you about the lawnmower? Ken got it delivered at the beginning of the episode from a satisfied client, probably named Chekhov. Well...we were all waiting for a little action, weren’t we? But how many of us wanted a bloodbath? I know I did.<br />
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_____Cantarahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16135251374138680349noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4244228533783306154.post-70854125715622447252009-09-06T03:00:00.006-04:002012-01-23T21:40:19.789-05:00Oui, Joan Holloway, Tu Est MagnifiqueBelow find the French translation of Cole Porter's hit from the musical, <i>Can Can:</i><br />
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<i>La vie est la</i><br />
<i> Qui vous prend par le bras<br />
Oh la la la<br />
C’est magnifique !<br />
Des jours tous bleus<br />
Des baisers lumineux,<br />
<i>Bss bss bss bss</i><br />
C’est magnifique !<br />
Donner son coeur<br />
Avec un bouquet d’fleurs<br />
Oh la la la<br />
Mais c’est magnifique !<br />
Et faire un jour<br />
Un mariage d’amour<br />
C’est magnifique !<br />
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Partir la-bas<br />
Lun’ de miel ? Cuba,<br />
Oh la la la<br />
C’est magnifique !<br />
Sous ce climat,<br />
Les baisers sont comm’ ca !<br />
<i>Bss bss bss bss</i><br />
C’est magnifique !<br />
Des nuits d’amour<br />
Qui dur’nt quarant’ cinq jours<br />
Oh la la la<br />
Mais c’est magnifique !<br />
Revoir Paris<br />
Retrouver ses amis<br />
C’est magnifique !<br />
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Doner a deux<br />
Dans un nid d’amoureux<br />
Oh la la la<br />
C’est magnifique !<br />
Dans un baiser<br />
Laisser l’poulet bruler<br />
<i>Bss bss bss bss</i><br />
C'est magnifique !<br />
Avoir deux coeurs<br />
Pour faire un seul bonheur<br />
Oh la la la<br />
Mais c’est magnifique !<br />
S’aimer d’amour<br />
A Paris pour toujours<br />
C’est magnifique !</i><br />
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<i>[<a href="http://www.mediafire.com/?5t85b8icb8pgc5b" target="_blank">C'est Magnifique, Sung by Eartha Kitt</a>]</i><br />
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