out of the past

it's been a while since I've seen the 1965 Richard Myers film
"The Coronation." but tonite I found it online.

this still features the lead actor Terry Corley. days after entering Kent State I saw him perform at the old University Auditorium in something calld "Freshman Preview." some weeks later I saw him take the Gene Kelly role in "The Time of Your Life."

I have no idea what became of him but it was lovely to see him so lovely so long ago.

Twin Lakes:1979

new broadside

available from NightBallet Press

only in America

years ago when air traffic controllers went on strike President Reagan fired them.

so there's a new statute of the bad actor. & where else but in front of an airport.

"Charlotte Greenwood Kickd Me in the Heart"

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

don't know

what's become of Beat Hotel but Steve's other property -- Lautner Motel -- recently reopend.

remembering Steve Lowe

just read Mark Van de Walle's 3-part piece abt him in Paris Review

found this beautiful poster online. my friend May McAvoy with Ramon Novarro.

a whisper of snow

o no. I'm not ready for winter.

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
:

"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.

Santa Fe Independent Film Festival

Kirby Dick

with Michael Cuomo & K. Lorrel Manning of "Happy New Year"

Franz Liszt (1811-1886)

item A17 in my bibliography
cover by John Sokol

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

"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.

deep watering
before
putting hoses away

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.

earthquake

local news tells me there was a 3.8 abt an hour & a half ago. didn't feel a thing.

MLK statue

made in China

Occupy comes to Santa Fe