when
we always want to know
was the first
some write
books abt it
embellishing
scent of memory
I barely recall
a time without
but the first
lies buried
maybe
it was when
I saw
that long leg
kick higher & higher
finally above her head
maybe
it was that stretch
that made me
movie mad
31 October 2011
30 October 2011
don't know
what's become of Beat Hotel but Steve's other property -- Lautner Motel -- recently reopend.
29 October 2011
28 October 2011
27 October 2011
25 October 2011
looking
for something else I uncoverd this fading color photo:
it was taken in front of the building in which I was born. another photo taken at the same time was used for the cover of The Year Book
:
it was taken in front of the building in which I was born. another photo taken at the same time was used for the cover of The Year Book
:
24 October 2011
"So This is Hollywood"
I've written before abt how much this 1955 NBC sitcom means to me & my affair with Tinsletown.
tonite I saw Mervyn LeRoy's "Show Girl in Hollywood" (1930) starring Alice White as Dixie DUGAN. early in the film she sends a postcard on which she writes "So this is Hollywood?"
that series I loved starrd Mitzi Green as Queenie DUGAN.
tonite I saw Mervyn LeRoy's "Show Girl in Hollywood" (1930) starring Alice White as Dixie DUGAN. early in the film she sends a postcard on which she writes "So this is Hollywood?"
that series I loved starrd Mitzi Green as Queenie DUGAN.
23 October 2011
22 October 2011
21 October 2011
remembering Paul Goodman
somehow I missd his 100th birthday last month but a new movie abt Goodman suddenly has him all over the place.
on the blog I've only written abt him once
but in The Year Book I wrote at the time of his death:
Paul Goodman
who once held my hand
in the backseat
of a Staten Island taxi
en route to Frank's Bar
on the blog I've only written abt him once
but in The Year Book I wrote at the time of his death:
Paul Goodman
who once held my hand
in the backseat
of a Staten Island taxi
en route to Frank's Bar
20 October 2011
"Athena"
hard to believe I've had this album for more than 50 years.
but I hadn't seen the movie in as long. however I was able to find it on DVD & saw it last nite. it's hardly a great film but fun & a cinephile's delight because of the cast.
& of special interest to me because of certain cast members.
Edmund Purdom: he plays an important cameo near the end of my new book.
Howard Wendell: his parents were neighbors of mine when I was a boy. see last year's chapbook Elyria.
Bess Flowers: co-star of my recent chapbook Percy & Bess. "the queen of the dress extras" plays Wendell's wife & actually has lines in this film.
Linda Christian: I had a short but spiritd chat with her at a film event some years ago.
Virginia Gibson: co-star of one of the most important tv shows of my boyhood "So This is Hollywood."
& a phalanx of famous muscle men: Steve Reeves Ed Fury Dick DuBois Bert Goodrich & the founder of Gold's Gym.
but I hadn't seen the movie in as long. however I was able to find it on DVD & saw it last nite. it's hardly a great film but fun & a cinephile's delight because of the cast.
& of special interest to me because of certain cast members.
Edmund Purdom: he plays an important cameo near the end of my new book.
Howard Wendell: his parents were neighbors of mine when I was a boy. see last year's chapbook Elyria.
Bess Flowers: co-star of my recent chapbook Percy & Bess. "the queen of the dress extras" plays Wendell's wife & actually has lines in this film.
Linda Christian: I had a short but spiritd chat with her at a film event some years ago.
Virginia Gibson: co-star of one of the most important tv shows of my boyhood "So This is Hollywood."
& a phalanx of famous muscle men: Steve Reeves Ed Fury Dick DuBois Bert Goodrich & the founder of Gold's Gym.
19 October 2011
18 October 2011
listening
thx to Ron Silliman I've discoverd a magnificent site undertaken by Harvard.
so many glorious voices from the past: Conrad Aiken Weldon Kees Laura Riding Wallace Stevens.
so many glorious voices from the past: Conrad Aiken Weldon Kees Laura Riding Wallace Stevens.
17 October 2011
16 October 2011
15 October 2011
14 October 2011
12 October 2011
more of the gone
back in my boozing days I saved swizzle sticks. (what didn't I save?) of course many of the places they represent are history. I began thinking abt this when I postd those old Hollywood pix. I opend a cupboard & faced the glass holding the collection & there was the swizzle from Cock'n Bull. during the summer I postd my Sonny Tufts poem which recalls a famous incident at the Sunset Strip restaurant. altho I wasn't actually there for that I did chat with John Carradine at the Cock'n Bull. & had dinner there with my dear friend Richard Martin & other members of the costume fraternity when I was dabbling in that.
& representing the other coast -- the legendary Max's Kansas City.
& representing the other coast -- the legendary Max's Kansas City.
10 October 2011
out of the past
from that same visit here are some shots of spots no longer there.
the legendary Schwab's & next to it what was left at that time of Googie's:
& the official closing of Tiny Naylor's:
the legendary Schwab's & next to it what was left at that time of Googie's:
& the official closing of Tiny Naylor's:
09 October 2011
Hamburger Hamlet
James Duke Mason suggestd in a Facebook post that the original restaurant is closing. actor Harry Lewis opend the Sunset Strip restaurant years ago. it was a favorite spot of Marie Windsor & most of our lunches together over the years were there. here we are in front of the place in 1984:
08 October 2011
still here
this time I went right to my log on page.
after a gloomy day we're back to sun.
& here's another Gildzen site.
after a gloomy day we're back to sun.
& here's another Gildzen site.
06 October 2011
future of this blog
if I go silent here it's because of technology.
to use my new cell phone I had to create a gmail account. in that process something happend with my Google log-in. all morning I was unable to get to the page which allows me to post. then without warning the old prompt came back & I'm able to post this.
but I can't be certain that I'll always have the opportunity to find the old log-in page.
to use my new cell phone I had to create a gmail account. in that process something happend with my Google log-in. all morning I was unable to get to the page which allows me to post. then without warning the old prompt came back & I'm able to post this.
but I can't be certain that I'll always have the opportunity to find the old log-in page.
05 October 2011
as I watchd
"The Last Station" I felt particularly old.
it's a period film. abt the final days of Tolstoy. & one of the characters was his daughter Sasha.
I met her in 1968.
it's a period film. abt the final days of Tolstoy. & one of the characters was his daughter Sasha.
I met her in 1968.
04 October 2011
over the weekend
I pickd up the ceramic marker from "Dad's Last Garden" & brought it inside.
I suspect it'll eventually become part of my papers at Kent State.
I suspect it'll eventually become part of my papers at Kent State.
03 October 2011
only a movie geek
will find this as exciting as I did.
I often ramble around IMDB checking movie casts. this ayem I lookd in on a movie I haven't seen in years which is now available on DVD -- "Athena."
to my surprise Howard Wendell (see Elyria: Point A in Ohio Triangle) plays the husband of Bess Flowers (see Percy & Bess).
I often ramble around IMDB checking movie casts. this ayem I lookd in on a movie I haven't seen in years which is now available on DVD -- "Athena."
to my surprise Howard Wendell (see Elyria: Point A in Ohio Triangle) plays the husband of Bess Flowers (see Percy & Bess).
01 October 2011
every day
I expect it to be the last of this superb weather. & then comes a gift of another stunner. this ayem I walkd to farmers market & back. & now I'm blending New Mexico harvest beets with Ohio garlic in a Greek recipe. doesn't get much better than this.
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