talk to me Clint

visiting

Herbert Leibowitz & Susan Yankowitz

the camera that looms over downtown Elyria

Tom Mahl -- who is now my oldest friend -- just alertd me to this story.

I don't think I ever bought anything at Loomis Camera but that sign is such a part of the history of my hometown. ironically I was with Tom on my last visit to Elyria when I took this picture:

we were in Ely Park & talking abt the Loomis sign.  knowing that nothing lasts forever I figured it was a good idea to have my own photo of it.

Julia's kettle cake

I'm working on a little film abt cakes. here's a picture of my dear friend the late Julia Waida with her famous chocolate cake.  I have a memory of her recipe appearing in a local cookbook.  however I can't find it in my modest cookbook collection. nor can the good folks at Kent State's special collections find a copy.

recumbent

Hollywood 1985

Elyria 2012

remembering Lila Kedrova

I took this at the Tony ball in 1984

Gene Kelly (1912-1996)

I took this when he got AFI's lifetime achievement award in 1985

Kumar comes to Santa Fe

actor Kal Penn campaigns for Obama at the community college

out of the past

Santorini (1987)

Rosemary Rice (1930-2012)

one of my favorites tv shows as a boy was "Mama." the title role was playd with grace by Broadway great Peggy Wood.  but it had a strong supporting cast. & among those was radio actress Rosemary Rice who playd Katrin.

when I sent the show a fan letter I got this oversize postcard of the cast:

out of the past

I believe this was taken not long after my move to Santa Fe

Biff Elliot (1923-2012)

best known for playing Mike Hammer on screen & James Dean's brother on tv

Wendy Hiller (1912-2003)

it was 1962. spring break. & I was in NYC on my own for the first time.  & the very first Broadway show I ever saw was Michael Redgrave's stage adaptation of Henry James' "The Aspern Papers."  Hiller shared over-the-title billing with Maurice Evans & Francoise Rosay.

this is the actual program I got at The Playhouse. yes I was an archivist before I was an archivist.  I've been keeping all my programs for more than a half century now.

BTW that program informs me that Hiller's understudy was Olympia Dukakis.

Sam Fuller (1912-1997)

"King Roger"

is the most homoerotic opera I've seen since "Billy Budd"

seeing Juan Sidi dance

I'm reminded that flamenco
is bullfighting without the bull

my cousin Regina is here for a week of opera.  so far we survivd a weak production of a silly Strauss but then were excitd by the glory of Luca Pisaroni as Maometto.

Chavela Vargas (1919-2012)

shelf

Marilyn Monroe (1926-1962)

while cleaning house

I discoverd this portrait of Jim Hailey from a long-ago summer Stater.  I write abt him in the poem "Off Campus."

overheard

one teenager to another:


"I tried eating a whole raw potato"

Millenia Mail Art Project

Jim Provenzano maild me Tofu's project & I sent it on to Bree.