16 July 2011

Sonny Tufts at 100

if this late actor is rememberd at all these days it's for the legend of his drinking rather than for such films as "The Crooked Way" & "Seven Year Itch."

to mark his centennial here's a poem which I cut from the final ms of The Arrow That is Hollywood Pierces the Soul That is Me
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SONNY TUFTS FALLS
OFF BARSTOOL AT COCK ‘N BULL

so much scotch
flows down Sunset
even Hitch
cdn’t launch
a lifeboat
big enough
to save him

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