Saturday, January 18, 2014
Sunday, November 24, 2013
Lou Reed Birthday
Revisiting The World of Lou Reed Under the open guidance of Jeffrey Lewis November 21st, 2013 at Jalopy...almost all my favorite current songwriters were in that room last night
From my notes: Random order opened with
They're taking her children away. I am the Waterboy.
then another song ultimately embedded into the Berlin Album: Stephanie says. It's so cold in Alaska
Then the cancer cure, "Her life was saved by Rock and Roll"
Black Ocean Ashes
Black Angel's Death
Czechoslovakians, to get to know you, invite you up for tea. When visiting leave a gift. Open House.
(Songs for Drella, because that's what we called him?)
Last Great American Wailing Whale.
Run run run. Take a drag or two, on 5th Avenue.
Jeff's cover of The original wrapper rapper (political song from the 80's).
Satellite of Love.
Steve sang Who Loves the Sun...
I sang "You're right and I'm wrong.... " for piano please credit Allan Macmillan and Rick Wakeman. I never inquired before and found an italian site: http://www.loureed.it/ that explained it all. "Berlin" was on the first Lou Reed solo album! Eins Zwei Drei Zugabe! oh, and then later instead of "Don't forget to hire the vet," he came right out and said it... don't forget to Marry The Vet. he hasn't had that much fun yet...but if he marries you he will... fun... hey baby I like your iggy pop david bowie Fun...
A low level sarcasm rings out in his poetry and harmonically radical pop gestures... There is some great groundbreaking music, in a low budget music sort of way (especially from alternate guitar tuning), and that's what attracts me, as well as the misleading spirit of entropy and dissolution. In my performance I felt there was so much more to say at the piano... I gave suggestions and want to do more!
I'd love to hear the song most inspired by Lou Reed from each of them!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-KLkU0fqHo
From my notes: Random order opened with
They're taking her children away. I am the Waterboy.
then another song ultimately embedded into the Berlin Album: Stephanie says. It's so cold in Alaska
Then the cancer cure, "Her life was saved by Rock and Roll"
Black Ocean Ashes
Black Angel's Death
Czechoslovakians, to get to know you, invite you up for tea. When visiting leave a gift. Open House.
(Songs for Drella, because that's what we called him?)
Last Great American Wailing Whale.
Run run run. Take a drag or two, on 5th Avenue.
Jeff's cover of The original wrapper rapper (political song from the 80's).
Satellite of Love.
Steve sang Who Loves the Sun...
I sang "You're right and I'm wrong.... " for piano please credit Allan Macmillan and Rick Wakeman. I never inquired before and found an italian site: http://www.loureed.it/ that explained it all. "Berlin" was on the first Lou Reed solo album! Eins Zwei Drei Zugabe! oh, and then later instead of "Don't forget to hire the vet," he came right out and said it... don't forget to Marry The Vet. he hasn't had that much fun yet...but if he marries you he will... fun... hey baby I like your iggy pop david bowie Fun...
A low level sarcasm rings out in his poetry and harmonically radical pop gestures... There is some great groundbreaking music, in a low budget music sort of way (especially from alternate guitar tuning), and that's what attracts me, as well as the misleading spirit of entropy and dissolution. In my performance I felt there was so much more to say at the piano... I gave suggestions and want to do more!
Jeff's brilliant structure: from his email:
THE PERFORMERS! (Not listed in order… the performance order will be random, and we'll do two rounds of one song each to make sure everybody gets on at least once!)
Add: Jim Flynn!
1) Turner Cody
2) Preston Spurlock
3) Cal Folger Day
4) Phoebe Novak
5) Jeffrey Lewis
6) Lee Feldman
7) Pete Galub
8) Dawn Landes
9) Peter Dizozza
10) Kristin Andreasson
11) Peter Stampfel
12) Pizza Underground
13) Steve Salett
14) Steve Espinola
15) Cannonball Statman
16) The Purple Organ
17) Common Prayer
I'd love to hear the song most inspired by Lou Reed from each of them!
Tuesday, February 12, 2013
ALL THOSE SONS
I recently played ping pong with my agile aging father. He is not one for passing me "20's" and getting parking tickets, but I dreamed last night that I was playing ping pong with a man named Mohammed and before the game he kept passing me "20s," while pulling parking tickets off his car.
I don't know how yesterday's pope-resignation headlines affect me, but somehow in my recent real and imagined excursions through manhood I arrived at grandiose thoughts resonating from La Ricotta, a short movie by Pier Paolo Pasolini whose cruelly comic atmosphere sits like a cloud over the purity of communism.
Communism as a reaction to tyranny prolongs tyranny. (I say this because my condition is a product of my own reflexive anger.) Maybe Emma Goldman could purely express communist principles (I don't know), but something muddies the rebel causes for both Pier Paolo Pasolini and Marc Blitzstein.
Consider the voice of the great composer Marc Blitzstein; his political preaching to the choir seems sadistic because he advocated a class condition distant from his own. While condemning people of privilege, Pasolini and Blitzstein each welcomed individuals from all walks of life.
La Ricotta displays the comic death of a passion-play movie extra. He dies on the cross. The callousness and cruelty of his supper and crucifixion call to mind a father/son relationship between God and the man on the cross. Pasolini, having suffered from the childhood domain of a stringent father, became that father. In a more conjectural way I suggest that Pasolini rebelled against his nasty/sadistic father. He re-enacts the ritual against his own sons, as they appear in his movies, his other 1962 son appearing in Mama Roma. The script calls for a crucifixion of Mamma Roma's boy, too. Callous authority repeatedly, ritualistically kills its rebel sons.
Ever resonating from the"facts" of Pasolini's passing is that his own life ended in violence. Political conspiracies aside, Mr. Blitzstein met with a similar end while also embracing the world by welcoming its strangers. I then conjecture that both artists were interactive in orchestrating the chaotic scene of their own demise.
I put my general realization in the form of a lyric I added to a Bob Dylan song, "God stopped Abraham but no one stopped God from killing his son on highway sixty-one."
Whether or not it is done to save the world, my ridiculous point is that there is a pattern of fathers killing sons. As sons rebelling against our fathers we prolong the pattern.
In general, Pasolini's poetic audio visual legacy is a treasure. Existing as her own force of nature within his world (and around the same time in the world of Luchino Visconti) is Anna Magnani.
To find signs of Pasolini's personal salvation look to the dance lesson in another room, in the last minutes of his last movie, Salo. Excluded from the De Sade family assembly, these sons are unaffected, independent and free.
I recently played ping pong with my agile aging father. He is not one for passing me "20's" and getting parking tickets, but I dreamed last night that I was playing ping pong with a man named Mohammed and before the game he kept passing me "20s," while pulling parking tickets off his car.
I don't know how yesterday's pope-resignation headlines affect me, but somehow in my recent real and imagined excursions through manhood I arrived at grandiose thoughts resonating from La Ricotta, a short movie by Pier Paolo Pasolini whose cruelly comic atmosphere sits like a cloud over the purity of communism.
Communism as a reaction to tyranny prolongs tyranny. (I say this because my condition is a product of my own reflexive anger.) Maybe Emma Goldman could purely express communist principles (I don't know), but something muddies the rebel causes for both Pier Paolo Pasolini and Marc Blitzstein.
Consider the voice of the great composer Marc Blitzstein; his political preaching to the choir seems sadistic because he advocated a class condition distant from his own. While condemning people of privilege, Pasolini and Blitzstein each welcomed individuals from all walks of life.
La Ricotta displays the comic death of a passion-play movie extra. He dies on the cross. The callousness and cruelty of his supper and crucifixion call to mind a father/son relationship between God and the man on the cross. Pasolini, having suffered from the childhood domain of a stringent father, became that father. In a more conjectural way I suggest that Pasolini rebelled against his nasty/sadistic father. He re-enacts the ritual against his own sons, as they appear in his movies, his other 1962 son appearing in Mama Roma. The script calls for a crucifixion of Mamma Roma's boy, too. Callous authority repeatedly, ritualistically kills its rebel sons.
Ever resonating from the"facts" of Pasolini's passing is that his own life ended in violence. Political conspiracies aside, Mr. Blitzstein met with a similar end while also embracing the world by welcoming its strangers. I then conjecture that both artists were interactive in orchestrating the chaotic scene of their own demise.
I put my general realization in the form of a lyric I added to a Bob Dylan song, "God stopped Abraham but no one stopped God from killing his son on highway sixty-one."
Whether or not it is done to save the world, my ridiculous point is that there is a pattern of fathers killing sons. As sons rebelling against our fathers we prolong the pattern.
In general, Pasolini's poetic audio visual legacy is a treasure. Existing as her own force of nature within his world (and around the same time in the world of Luchino Visconti) is Anna Magnani.
To find signs of Pasolini's personal salvation look to the dance lesson in another room, in the last minutes of his last movie, Salo. Excluded from the De Sade family assembly, these sons are unaffected, independent and free.
Sunday, January 27, 2013
If you've ever wondered whether the medium is the message, consider the following: In the Christian Bible there is another Genesis contained in the introductory lines to the Gospel of John.
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ... and the word was made flesh, and dwelt among us."
The liturgical service commemorating the events reported in this gospel places within a central tabernacle behind an altar, where once an ark held scrolls inscribed with God's words, bread that by a miracle becomes the flesh of the son of God. (Eating replaces reading ... Sensuality replaces intellect...)
While it is God's words inscribed in the scrolls, John's gospel also announces that "the Word was God."
If words define our consciousness then no truer words were ever written,
Conflict over religion in Western Civilization can end because, despite the many sects, we're all a product of only one religion.
"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. ... and the word was made flesh, and dwelt among us."
The liturgical service commemorating the events reported in this gospel places within a central tabernacle behind an altar, where once an ark held scrolls inscribed with God's words, bread that by a miracle becomes the flesh of the son of God. (Eating replaces reading ... Sensuality replaces intellect...)
While it is God's words inscribed in the scrolls, John's gospel also announces that "the Word was God."
If words define our consciousness then no truer words were ever written,
Conflict over religion in Western Civilization can end because, despite the many sects, we're all a product of only one religion.
Thursday, August 23, 2012
I find myself awake on this Friday morning realizing the needs and fears that make up the inaction of the moment... That's the way it is right now maybe forever... Sometimes I think there is a destiny and a connection with God... a universal One of some sort... and that I am an important player, a part in universal destiny that is somehow connected with my creative inspiration as it translates into music and writing... But today I'm more a drone than ever before and I felt I was one when I first started working at the Comptroller's Office... the 54 years have their moments... Sometimes I do feel happy and good about myself and the world... My alter ego has become my father, as he should be, as he always was the man I most avoided... Now I have no choice but to confront him in all his intensity and permanence. My inspiration consists of seconds, and the perspiration part required to translate inspiration into communication... well, it's an act of focusing, and every moment I feel like I must stop now... I'm feeling at every moment of action that I must stop, that something is stopping me... The simple example with this computer typing is The Heat of the Computer... I may as well admit that after sleeping for a time I turned on the television and it allowed me to start over on its broadcast of Reservoir Dogs, a simple production attaining near perfection... The impact of the Harry Nillson song at the end is now somewhat matched by the brilliant time shifted script. It's a play and a work of cinema, an opportunity for actors to display their own unique brilliance... an admirable accomplishment, inspiring me to aspire to such an accomplishment. But it leaves me in a state of low grade hysteria, the Coconut song hysteria... Would I wish this on another person? The piece leaves you in a crazy place. And it is brilliant in its engagement. I was hooked from beginning to end, watching in awe as I understood the context in which memorable events transpire. It's a strong context... It's the script. This fellow's impact on my life is somewhat considerable and exists apart from my own life. I would like a role model somewhere in the entertainment engaging me. Someone I'd actually like to be, not seeing people who remind me of the worst of me...identifying and awakening my masculine predicament. It's a pretty funny predicament... Ultimately these movies are comedies, part of the comedy being that they are movies.
Friday, April 29, 2011
This is my quantum physics post addressing the question of how to make a qubite computer. It already exists through the @rnd function, the random number generator. we have ones and zeros and an unexecuted random number function with the parameter limited to between zero and one. The unexecuted random function is the third bite. The ordinary computer's random number generator arrives at its underwriting calculations by limiting high and low parameters, running the random calculation over and over, the parameter between the random numbers becoming smaller, in effect shrinking Shroedinger's box with the cat in it... I suppose there is no doubt to the answer that ultimately the cat is dead, the act of avoiding observation while trying to determine the observable answer kills it ... Peter Dizozza
Saturday, March 19, 2011
The biggest moonshine in 18 years happens tonight. Various earthquakes have already hit the Pacific, New Zealand and Japan, and my mother passed away from a sudden quake of sorts within her. She went forward doing, learning, listening and contributing until she was stopped, in this case by her physical being. Because her mother lived to be a hundred and even then did not die from a natural cause, my mother's health did not receive the attention my father was giving to his own health.
Though not in cause, in effect the reason for my mother's and grandmother's passing is the same, most recently addressed in the script for A Question of Solitude.
Reality is barely comprehensible at a close look. I hear my mother speaking to me. At one point she was entirely me. At this point I am my own person and she is part of me. I miss her and love her.
Though not in cause, in effect the reason for my mother's and grandmother's passing is the same, most recently addressed in the script for A Question of Solitude.
Reality is barely comprehensible at a close look. I hear my mother speaking to me. At one point she was entirely me. At this point I am my own person and she is part of me. I miss her and love her.
Thursday, February 17, 2011
There aren't many mysteries at present, just of time and existence, of gravity and friendships, of living. The mysteries of eight are infinite but it's just a symbol for a number. We can count and eight can look like a single symbol... are their different symbols for eight in different languages? What does the symbol look like elsewhere. For here it is infinity, a mobius strip, add the ribbon flip to the figure and you have three dimensions in two.
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
2.26.98
Carol's favorite Movies
I Know Where I'm Going
Michael Powell Ernest Pressburg
Wendy Hiller
Lawrence of Arabia
Great Expectations
David Lean
The River
Jean Renoir
(I like his Dana Andrews Film, Swamp Water)
Snow White
Disney
Gigi
Vincent Minelli
Odd Man Out
--------
Ghost Stories
The Haunting
Comedies
Take the Money and Run
Bedazzled
Sandy likes
The Maltese Falcon
John Huston
Casablanca
Michael Curtiz
Charade
Stanley Donen
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Richard Lester
The Inlaws
M
Gigi
The Thin Man
The Thing
The Sound of Music
Ghandi
Ruggles of Redgap
All of Me
Sabateur
Suspicion
Dizozza Personal Favorites
(please follow each category with the words, "of which I'm aware")
The Music Lovers
Ken Russell
The Chalk Garden
Ronald Neame
The Ruling Class
Peter Medak (also directed Negatives) -- met the director in September, 1992
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Chinatown
Roman Polanski
Sleeper
Woody Allen
Oliver!
Carol Reed
Carrie
Brian DePalma
Catagories:
Kubrick
Lolita
Dr. Strangelove
2001
Clockwork Orange
Barry Lyndon
The Shining
(although 20 years in the making, this is the best
string of films since Hitchcock)
also Paths of Glory
Full Metal Jacket
The Killing/Killer's Kiss
Polanski
Rosemary's Baby
(Chinatown)
Cul de Sac
The Tenant
almost Tess and Repulsion
Scorsese
Temptation
Mean Streets
Taxi Driver
maybe Portrait of an American Boy
almost New York New York
King of Comedy
DePalma
Carrie
The Fury
Scarface
Ken Russell; * = good for something other than as a musical
Song of Summer, etc., Billion Dollar Brain
Women in Love *
The Music Lovers *
The Devils *
(The Boy Friend, Savage Messiah), XValentinoX
Tommy *
Lisztomania *
Altered States
Crimes of Passion
Gothic, Salome's Last Dance, Lair of the White Worm
he was also ARIA organizer
Other Musicals I believe are worthwhile -- because at least I've seen them
Follow the Fleet
Roberta
Top Hat
The Bandwagon
Singing In the Rain
42nd Street
Dames
Gold Diggers of 1933
Cabaret (Bob Fosse)
Hair (Milos Forman)
(Oliver!)
A Hard Day's Night
Help!
Yellow Submarine
The Wizard of Oz
The Little Shop of Horrors
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
West Side Story
Gypsy
almost Bye Bye Birdie
Ken Russell
ALL HIS FILMS ARE MUSICALS
Tommy
Disney
Pinocchio
Snow White
Peter Pan
Mary Poppins
The Little (My Little) Mermaid
Maybe Pollyanna
-- also see Parent Trap for Pre-Chalk Garden Haley Mills
Great Hitchcock
almost Young and Innocent
The 39 Steps
Rebecca
Shadow of a Doubt
Strangers on a Train
Suspicion
The Man Who Knew To Much
Rear Window
Vertigo (The James Stewart Trilogy)
North by Northwest
Psycho
(The Madness Trilogy)
The Birds
also The Trouble with Harry
Great DePalma
Obsession
The Fury
(Carrie)
Scarface
Remember
Elaine May:
A New Leaf
Mike Nichols directed
The Graduate and Carnal Knowledge
Arthur Penn directed
The Miracle Worker, Bonnie and Clyde, and Little Big Man
Warrent Beatty
B & C
$ (Dir. Richard Brooks)
Heaven Can Wait
Bugsy (Music: Ennio Morricone)
Dick Tracy
William Friedken directed
The French Connection
The Exorcist
The great Boys in the Band opening
1910-20
Swedish Films
Victor Sjostrom
Mauritz Stiller
Best Swedish Film
The Silence (Bergman)
1920-30
Way Down East
The Gold Rush
The General
Greed
Sunrise
1930-40
Little Ceasar
Public Enemy
1940-50
Casablanca, of course
They Died with Their Boots On (Prequel to Little Big Man)
1950-60
Rebel Without a Cause
1960-70
The Graduate
1970-80
Midnight Cowboy
1980-1990
Brazil
Raging Bull
Best Welles
Citizen Kane
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Lady from Shanghai
The Third Man
Carol Reed
Great Acadamy Award Winners
The Deerhunter
The Godfather / The Godfather II
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (Milos Forman)
Gone With the Wind
From Here to Eternity
The Best Years of Our Lives
The French Connection
Great Marilyn Monroe
Bus Stop
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
The River of No Return
The Misfits
Heat Wave, in There's No Business Like Show Business
Best Spielberg
Duel
Best Bette Davis besides Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
Now Voyager
The Petrified Forest
(Maybe: Marked Woman, Dark Victory)
Best Katherine Hepburn
Alice Adams
Morning Glory
Bringing Up Baby
Best Cary Grant
BUB
Charade
NBN
Best (funniest) Italians
Bertollucci - never saw The Conformist
Last Tango in Paris
Partners
1900
The Last Emperor
Antonioni
Blow Up
almost Red Desert
L'Aventura
Pasolini
Pig Pen
Arabian Nights
Salo
Visconti
Ludwig
(Death in Venice/The Damned)
Fellini
Il Vitelloni
La Strada
La Dolce Vita
Best German
Nosferatu
Caligari
M
Aguire
(The Marriage of Maria Braun)
Lola
The Tin Drum
Best Japanese
Ran
Throne of Blood
Night and Fog in Japan
Kwaidon
Ugestu
Ikiru
others
Best Bergman
The Silence
Detective Films
(Chinatown)
The Big Sleep
The Big Heat (Lang)
The Thin Man
Crime Films
Double Indemnity
(The Killing)
D.O.A.
Sorry Wrong Number
Horror
(Rosemary's Baby)
Halloween
Texas Chain Saw Massacre
almost Witchfinder General/Masque of the Red Death
Freaks
(I Walked with a Zombie)
The Cat People
Island of Lost Souls
Mad Max
Great Whale
Frankenstein
The Bride of Frankenstein
The Invisible Man
Show Boat
Ghost Stories
Beetlejuice
Blithe Spirit
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Best Carol Burnett Version of A Movie
Mildred Fierce
Best Woody Allen
ALL are of consistent quality
favorite: Sleeper
Best Marxes
Duck Soup
Horse Feathers
Go West
All the rest.
Best Comedies
Arthur
Old
City Lights
Best Danny Kaye
Up in Arms
The Saddest Comedy
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Most Misfired Comedy
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Toon Town)
Best Natalie Wood besides Gypsy and West Side Story
Miracle on 34th Street
Rebel Without a Cause
Best looking Natalie Wood besides the others
The Great Race
Good Shirley McLaine
The Trouble with Harry
Sweet Charity (Directed by Bob Fosse)
Terms of Endearment
Ingrid Thulin is in The Silence and The Damned
CARTOONS
Snow White (companion, WB: Coal Black)
Pinocchio (Cinderella?)
Peter Pan
(My) Little Mermaid
Yellow Submarine
Light Years (Korea -> France -> Assimov)
Japanese Male Holocaust Fantasy: The Wandering Kid
TOONS: Mouse/Bunny/Boop
Famous directors of the least important financially profitable films to achieve attention, ever:
George Lucas and Steven Spielberg
Best moment or fraction thereof: Lunch, with Ms. Allen, Mr. Ford and a monkey in Raidrs accompanied by John Williams' music.
Best Williams score: The Fury. The better orchestral inspiration -- Mahler, the Seventh Symphony.
Music names:
Frank Zappa
We all have our favorites
-- best overall album
Burnt Weeny Sandwich (Berlin)
-- albums containing good material
Apostrophe (Yellow Snow/Pancake Breakfast, Remus)
Overnite Sensation (Zombie Woof)
Joe's Garage (Cyborg)
Roxy and Elsewhere (cheepnis)
Uncle Meat
Waka Jawaka
Andrew Lloyd Webber
(Jesus Christ Superstar)
Marc Blitzstein
(Nickel Under Foot)
Kurt Weil
(Three Penny Opera, the Road to Silverlake)
Hoagy Carmichael
Film appearances
Harold Arlen hits in general
Johnny Mercer, lyricist and singer
George Gershwin
Duke Elington, Billy Strayhorn
Patti Smith
(Four Albums)
The Rolling Stones
(Beggar's Banquet, Let It Bleed)
The Beatles
Alexander Scriabin
(Sonatas 5 & 10)
Johannes Brahms
Gustav Mahler
Peter Tchaikovsky
Serge Prokofiev
Claude Debussey
Erik Satie
Stephen Sondheim
David Bowie
(The Man Who Sold The World, Diamond Dogs)
Carly Simon
Laura Nyro
Elvis Costello
(Mighty Like a Rose, My Aim, This Year's, Armed Forces, Get Happy)
Peka Pajola
Steely Dan
Phil Oches
Pleasures of the Harbor, Letter from California
Madonna
(Recording: 12" Live Angel, song: Material Girl)
Samantha Fox
Belinda Carlyle
The Roches
Bruce Springstein
(Thunder Road, Bobby Jean)
Elis Regina
Sergio Mendez
Gong(?)
Genesis
(Nursery Crime, Selling England, Supper's Ready)
Gentle Giant
(Glass House)
Movie Music:
Collaborators with Hitchock
Bernard Herman
Ken Russell,
Peter Maxwell Davies, Rick Wakeman
Ennio Morricone
and for De Palma
(least important major talent, John Williams, shines in The Fury (Mahler's Seventh), rehashed by someone else in The Elephant Man. Williams shining also: Superman, Can You Read My Mind?, and in the good Raidrs scene.)
Best Bacharach (despite words, of course, although the words are essential)
One Less Bell to Answer
Hey, Little Girl
The Look of Love
Bacharach and Herb Albert: This Guy's in Love with You
Best Scores for: Casino Royale, Lost Horizon, Arthur (Bacharach also gives credit to April Fools).
Best Bachrach recording by other than Bacharach -- The Mendez "Look of Love."
Hamlish wrote
Theme from Ice Castles: Please Don't let this feeling end ...
The Spy Who Loved Me - Best recording
If You Remember Me (The Champ)
(On Broadway: Chorus Line/Playing our Song. Is any of it good?)
Favorite Sondheim: All, particularly A Little Night Music
1990 Peak of Powers: Sondheim and Elvis Costello
(Mighty Like a Rose)
Favorite Rupert Holmes (from Drood)
Ceylon, and almost Perfect StrangersFavorite Books
The Woman in White
Bleak House
1984
Lolita
Flowers for Algernon
And Then There Were None
The Glass Key
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Cobra
Madame Bovary
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Best Anne Rice? -- Lestat
Best Kosinski: Cockpit
Melville
Falkner
Chandler
Hammett
John Barth, anyone?Writers
Recent interest in: Robert Benchley
Raymond Chandler
Anne Rice (Rampling? Roquefort)
Aleister Crowley
Doonesbury
Martin Amis -- London Fields, Time's Arrow, half way through Money I had had enough.
Daphne DuMaurier,
Short stories collection: The Turning Point
My Cousin Rachel
etc.
Isaac Asimov's Robot and Foundation trilogy.
Philip K. Dick's Valis
Some Vacchs books
The Perfume Book
The Unnatural Selection book.
Music: Marc Blitzstein
Broadway besides Sondheim:
Harnick & Bock She Loves Me, Fiddler, Fiorello
Artist Names:
Max Ernst
Salvador Dali
Hans Belmer
Francis Bacon
Max Escher
Hieronemous Bosch
Peter Breugel
Renoir
Vermeer
Monet
Gogh
Giacometti
DeKooning, exhibited at the Guggenheim over ten years ago.
Theatre events
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Stratford, Kier Dullea, Fred Gwyne, and Ms. Ashley
Mourning Becomes Elektra, Stratford
Our Town, Stratford
Three Penny Opera, not Beaumont's but Delecort's
Taming of the Shrew, Delecort, Raul Julia, and the only time Merrill Streep has made an impression (positive).
James Earl Jones' King Lear, Delecort
The Caucasion Chalk Circle, Brecht
Lupone as Evita
Les Miserables
Dream Girls
Sweeney Todd six weeks into the Uris run
Ian McKellen's Duchess of Malfi
Pinter's Sweet Bird of Youth
can't remember...
Pacino played Hughie -- that was good. dir. Theodore Mann
My favorite Hamlet: Richard Chamberlain
Favorite Playwrites:
Shakespeare
O'Neill (Mourning)
Williams (Cat)
others (Pinter, Stoppard, Mamet, Rabe)
Oscar Wilde's Importance of Being Earnest
Wrote the Happy Prince and the Devoted Friend, recorded by Claire Luce for Folkways Records
Carol's favorite Movies
I Know Where I'm Going
Michael Powell Ernest Pressburg
Wendy Hiller
Lawrence of Arabia
Great Expectations
David Lean
The River
Jean Renoir
(I like his Dana Andrews Film, Swamp Water)
Snow White
Disney
Gigi
Vincent Minelli
Odd Man Out
--------
Ghost Stories
The Haunting
Comedies
Take the Money and Run
Bedazzled
Sandy likes
The Maltese Falcon
John Huston
Casablanca
Michael Curtiz
Charade
Stanley Donen
A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Richard Lester
The Inlaws
M
Gigi
The Thin Man
The Thing
The Sound of Music
Ghandi
Ruggles of Redgap
All of Me
Sabateur
Suspicion
Dizozza Personal Favorites
(please follow each category with the words, "of which I'm aware")
The Music Lovers
Ken Russell
The Chalk Garden
Ronald Neame
The Ruling Class
Peter Medak (also directed Negatives) -- met the director in September, 1992
The Marriage of Maria Braun
Rainer Werner Fassbinder
Chinatown
Roman Polanski
Sleeper
Woody Allen
Oliver!
Carol Reed
Carrie
Brian DePalma
Catagories:
Kubrick
Lolita
Dr. Strangelove
2001
Clockwork Orange
Barry Lyndon
The Shining
(although 20 years in the making, this is the best
string of films since Hitchcock)
also Paths of Glory
Full Metal Jacket
The Killing/Killer's Kiss
Polanski
Rosemary's Baby
(Chinatown)
Cul de Sac
The Tenant
almost Tess and Repulsion
Scorsese
Temptation
Mean Streets
Taxi Driver
maybe Portrait of an American Boy
almost New York New York
King of Comedy
DePalma
Carrie
The Fury
Scarface
Ken Russell; * = good for something other than as a musical
Song of Summer, etc., Billion Dollar Brain
Women in Love *
The Music Lovers *
The Devils *
(The Boy Friend, Savage Messiah), XValentinoX
Tommy *
Lisztomania *
Altered States
Crimes of Passion
Gothic, Salome's Last Dance, Lair of the White Worm
he was also ARIA organizer
Other Musicals I believe are worthwhile -- because at least I've seen them
Follow the Fleet
Roberta
Top Hat
The Bandwagon
Singing In the Rain
42nd Street
Dames
Gold Diggers of 1933
Cabaret (Bob Fosse)
Hair (Milos Forman)
(Oliver!)
A Hard Day's Night
Help!
Yellow Submarine
The Wizard of Oz
The Little Shop of Horrors
The Rocky Horror Picture Show
West Side Story
Gypsy
almost Bye Bye Birdie
Ken Russell
ALL HIS FILMS ARE MUSICALS
Tommy
Disney
Pinocchio
Snow White
Peter Pan
Mary Poppins
The Little (My Little) Mermaid
Maybe Pollyanna
-- also see Parent Trap for Pre-Chalk Garden Haley Mills
Great Hitchcock
almost Young and Innocent
The 39 Steps
Rebecca
Shadow of a Doubt
Strangers on a Train
Suspicion
The Man Who Knew To Much
Rear Window
Vertigo (The James Stewart Trilogy)
North by Northwest
Psycho
(The Madness Trilogy)
The Birds
also The Trouble with Harry
Great DePalma
Obsession
The Fury
(Carrie)
Scarface
Remember
Elaine May:
A New Leaf
Mike Nichols directed
The Graduate and Carnal Knowledge
Arthur Penn directed
The Miracle Worker, Bonnie and Clyde, and Little Big Man
Warrent Beatty
B & C
$ (Dir. Richard Brooks)
Heaven Can Wait
Bugsy (Music: Ennio Morricone)
Dick Tracy
William Friedken directed
The French Connection
The Exorcist
The great Boys in the Band opening
1910-20
Swedish Films
Victor Sjostrom
Mauritz Stiller
Best Swedish Film
The Silence (Bergman)
1920-30
Way Down East
The Gold Rush
The General
Greed
Sunrise
1930-40
Little Ceasar
Public Enemy
1940-50
Casablanca, of course
They Died with Their Boots On (Prequel to Little Big Man)
1950-60
Rebel Without a Cause
1960-70
The Graduate
1970-80
Midnight Cowboy
1980-1990
Brazil
Raging Bull
Best Welles
Citizen Kane
The Magnificent Ambersons
The Lady from Shanghai
The Third Man
Carol Reed
Great Acadamy Award Winners
The Deerhunter
The Godfather / The Godfather II
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest (Milos Forman)
Gone With the Wind
From Here to Eternity
The Best Years of Our Lives
The French Connection
Great Marilyn Monroe
Bus Stop
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
The River of No Return
The Misfits
Heat Wave, in There's No Business Like Show Business
Best Spielberg
Duel
Best Bette Davis besides Whatever Happened to Baby Jane
Now Voyager
The Petrified Forest
(Maybe: Marked Woman, Dark Victory)
Best Katherine Hepburn
Alice Adams
Morning Glory
Bringing Up Baby
Best Cary Grant
BUB
Charade
NBN
Best (funniest) Italians
Bertollucci - never saw The Conformist
Last Tango in Paris
Partners
1900
The Last Emperor
Antonioni
Blow Up
almost Red Desert
L'Aventura
Pasolini
Pig Pen
Arabian Nights
Salo
Visconti
Ludwig
(Death in Venice/The Damned)
Fellini
Il Vitelloni
La Strada
La Dolce Vita
Best German
Nosferatu
Caligari
M
Aguire
(The Marriage of Maria Braun)
Lola
The Tin Drum
Best Japanese
Ran
Throne of Blood
Night and Fog in Japan
Kwaidon
Ugestu
Ikiru
others
Best Bergman
The Silence
Detective Films
(Chinatown)
The Big Sleep
The Big Heat (Lang)
The Thin Man
Crime Films
Double Indemnity
(The Killing)
D.O.A.
Sorry Wrong Number
Horror
(Rosemary's Baby)
Halloween
Texas Chain Saw Massacre
almost Witchfinder General/Masque of the Red Death
Freaks
(I Walked with a Zombie)
The Cat People
Island of Lost Souls
Mad Max
Great Whale
Frankenstein
The Bride of Frankenstein
The Invisible Man
Show Boat
Ghost Stories
Beetlejuice
Blithe Spirit
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Best Carol Burnett Version of A Movie
Mildred Fierce
Best Woody Allen
ALL are of consistent quality
favorite: Sleeper
Best Marxes
Duck Soup
Horse Feathers
Go West
All the rest.
Best Comedies
Arthur
Old
City Lights
Best Danny Kaye
Up in Arms
The Saddest Comedy
It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
Most Misfired Comedy
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Toon Town)
Best Natalie Wood besides Gypsy and West Side Story
Miracle on 34th Street
Rebel Without a Cause
Best looking Natalie Wood besides the others
The Great Race
Good Shirley McLaine
The Trouble with Harry
Sweet Charity (Directed by Bob Fosse)
Terms of Endearment
Ingrid Thulin is in The Silence and The Damned
CARTOONS
Snow White (companion, WB: Coal Black)
Pinocchio (Cinderella?)
Peter Pan
(My) Little Mermaid
Yellow Submarine
Light Years (Korea -> France -> Assimov)
Japanese Male Holocaust Fantasy: The Wandering Kid
TOONS: Mouse/Bunny/Boop
Famous directors of the least important financially profitable films to achieve attention, ever:
George Lucas and Steven Spielberg
Best moment or fraction thereof: Lunch, with Ms. Allen, Mr. Ford and a monkey in Raidrs accompanied by John Williams' music.
Best Williams score: The Fury. The better orchestral inspiration -- Mahler, the Seventh Symphony.
Music names:
Frank Zappa
We all have our favorites
-- best overall album
Burnt Weeny Sandwich (Berlin)
-- albums containing good material
Apostrophe (Yellow Snow/Pancake Breakfast, Remus)
Overnite Sensation (Zombie Woof)
Joe's Garage (Cyborg)
Roxy and Elsewhere (cheepnis)
Uncle Meat
Waka Jawaka
Andrew Lloyd Webber
(Jesus Christ Superstar)
Marc Blitzstein
(Nickel Under Foot)
Kurt Weil
(Three Penny Opera, the Road to Silverlake)
Hoagy Carmichael
Film appearances
Harold Arlen hits in general
Johnny Mercer, lyricist and singer
George Gershwin
Duke Elington, Billy Strayhorn
Patti Smith
(Four Albums)
The Rolling Stones
(Beggar's Banquet, Let It Bleed)
The Beatles
Alexander Scriabin
(Sonatas 5 & 10)
Johannes Brahms
Gustav Mahler
Peter Tchaikovsky
Serge Prokofiev
Claude Debussey
Erik Satie
Stephen Sondheim
David Bowie
(The Man Who Sold The World, Diamond Dogs)
Carly Simon
Laura Nyro
Elvis Costello
(Mighty Like a Rose, My Aim, This Year's, Armed Forces, Get Happy)
Peka Pajola
Steely Dan
Phil Oches
Pleasures of the Harbor, Letter from California
Madonna
(Recording: 12" Live Angel, song: Material Girl)
Samantha Fox
Belinda Carlyle
The Roches
Bruce Springstein
(Thunder Road, Bobby Jean)
Elis Regina
Sergio Mendez
Gong(?)
Genesis
(Nursery Crime, Selling England, Supper's Ready)
Gentle Giant
(Glass House)
Movie Music:
Collaborators with Hitchock
Bernard Herman
Ken Russell,
Peter Maxwell Davies, Rick Wakeman
Ennio Morricone
and for De Palma
(least important major talent, John Williams, shines in The Fury (Mahler's Seventh), rehashed by someone else in The Elephant Man. Williams shining also: Superman, Can You Read My Mind?, and in the good Raidrs scene.)
Best Bacharach (despite words, of course, although the words are essential)
One Less Bell to Answer
Hey, Little Girl
The Look of Love
Bacharach and Herb Albert: This Guy's in Love with You
Best Scores for: Casino Royale, Lost Horizon, Arthur (Bacharach also gives credit to April Fools).
Best Bachrach recording by other than Bacharach -- The Mendez "Look of Love."
Hamlish wrote
Theme from Ice Castles: Please Don't let this feeling end ...
The Spy Who Loved Me - Best recording
If You Remember Me (The Champ)
(On Broadway: Chorus Line/Playing our Song. Is any of it good?)
Favorite Sondheim: All, particularly A Little Night Music
1990 Peak of Powers: Sondheim and Elvis Costello
(Mighty Like a Rose)
Favorite Rupert Holmes (from Drood)
Ceylon, and almost Perfect StrangersFavorite Books
The Woman in White
Bleak House
1984
Lolita
Flowers for Algernon
And Then There Were None
The Glass Key
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Cobra
Madame Bovary
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Best Anne Rice? -- Lestat
Best Kosinski: Cockpit
Melville
Falkner
Chandler
Hammett
John Barth, anyone?Writers
Recent interest in: Robert Benchley
Raymond Chandler
Anne Rice (Rampling? Roquefort)
Aleister Crowley
Doonesbury
Martin Amis -- London Fields, Time's Arrow, half way through Money I had had enough.
Daphne DuMaurier,
Short stories collection: The Turning Point
My Cousin Rachel
etc.
Isaac Asimov's Robot and Foundation trilogy.
Philip K. Dick's Valis
Some Vacchs books
The Perfume Book
The Unnatural Selection book.
Music: Marc Blitzstein
Broadway besides Sondheim:
Harnick & Bock She Loves Me, Fiddler, Fiorello
Artist Names:
Max Ernst
Salvador Dali
Hans Belmer
Francis Bacon
Max Escher
Hieronemous Bosch
Peter Breugel
Renoir
Vermeer
Monet
Gogh
Giacometti
DeKooning, exhibited at the Guggenheim over ten years ago.
Theatre events
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Stratford, Kier Dullea, Fred Gwyne, and Ms. Ashley
Mourning Becomes Elektra, Stratford
Our Town, Stratford
Three Penny Opera, not Beaumont's but Delecort's
Taming of the Shrew, Delecort, Raul Julia, and the only time Merrill Streep has made an impression (positive).
James Earl Jones' King Lear, Delecort
The Caucasion Chalk Circle, Brecht
Lupone as Evita
Les Miserables
Dream Girls
Sweeney Todd six weeks into the Uris run
Ian McKellen's Duchess of Malfi
Pinter's Sweet Bird of Youth
can't remember...
Pacino played Hughie -- that was good. dir. Theodore Mann
My favorite Hamlet: Richard Chamberlain
Favorite Playwrites:
Shakespeare
O'Neill (Mourning)
Williams (Cat)
others (Pinter, Stoppard, Mamet, Rabe)
Oscar Wilde's Importance of Being Earnest
Wrote the Happy Prince and the Devoted Friend, recorded by Claire Luce for Folkways Records
Wednesday, April 28, 2010
The interesting phenomenon during Last Night's visit to the V clinic... I'm kidding, it's not the V clinic... I'm helping with a study on brain waves, remember? The phd candidate is searching for the brain difference between aspergers and normals... is normals a pluralable noun?
... While there, with a constantly moving head within the magnetoencephelograph helmet, I experienced the phenonmenon of hearing lips and seeing voices... Professor McGurk's studies in the 1970's... ?? I have to look this up but the sound of the word changed as I looked at a video of the speaking of it run backwards... basically from a ba sound to a cla sound...the other studies were by Professor Tallon-Baudry and Professor Peter J. Lang...
Seeing a thing while it is making a noise changes the way we hear the noise the thing is making... that is ONE way to put it....the experiment here consisted of showing the video then reversing the video of the same spoken word. it sounded like a different word...
... While there, with a constantly moving head within the magnetoencephelograph helmet, I experienced the phenonmenon of hearing lips and seeing voices... Professor McGurk's studies in the 1970's... ?? I have to look this up but the sound of the word changed as I looked at a video of the speaking of it run backwards... basically from a ba sound to a cla sound...the other studies were by Professor Tallon-Baudry and Professor Peter J. Lang...
Seeing a thing while it is making a noise changes the way we hear the noise the thing is making... that is ONE way to put it....the experiment here consisted of showing the video then reversing the video of the same spoken word. it sounded like a different word...
Wednesday, April 07, 2010
I am aware today of the following:
Charles Fourier and his proposal for community cooperation ordered as a phalanx...The Phalansteres is a Grand Hotel... Procul Harum introduced me to that setting...
Charles Dana, editor of The New York Sun once lived in a phalanx farm.
Thanks to a grant from Mr. Dana's foundation, I've learned that the brain emits magnetic rays at about 10 waves a second. Flashing faces may affect that. Choose whether they are black or whte, in black and white or color, whether their mouths, noses or eyes are blurred or focused, whether they are happy afraid angry fearful or neutral... Early results suggest when my eyes are open the wave patter more resembles the eyes closed pattern than when they are closed. The average wave is constant rather than varied.
I believe my participation is beneficial to everyone.
Charles Fourier and his proposal for community cooperation ordered as a phalanx...The Phalansteres is a Grand Hotel... Procul Harum introduced me to that setting...
Charles Dana, editor of The New York Sun once lived in a phalanx farm.
Thanks to a grant from Mr. Dana's foundation, I've learned that the brain emits magnetic rays at about 10 waves a second. Flashing faces may affect that. Choose whether they are black or whte, in black and white or color, whether their mouths, noses or eyes are blurred or focused, whether they are happy afraid angry fearful or neutral... Early results suggest when my eyes are open the wave patter more resembles the eyes closed pattern than when they are closed. The average wave is constant rather than varied.
I believe my participation is beneficial to everyone.
Friday, September 18, 2009
We don't even get to personality until we are impeccable with our word... How can you attain the right to be a person if you constantly make mistakes? Needless to say, I am my mistakes and do not call them that. I am secure in my awareness until I am proven wrong and am just as secure in my new awareness, and appreaciate your proofs and the attention you gave me. Thank you! Now what am I doing, I'm making a motion to amend pleadings to add a cause of action. We even don't get into the courtroom unless the papers are in order.
I have kitty-cat visitors for the weekend.
The fundraiser at the neighborhood playhouse went well, thanks to the great talent involved... I'd especially like the thank THE STEPPE DOGGES!
Tuesday, July 07, 2009
How about assuming full responsibility? oh to live up to it...
When it comes to my actions, I am self-insured...
Insurance companies have been in the film business. there's transamerica for united artists, american international is aig... and now, The CVII Insurance Company.
Insurance creates a disproportion in risk assumption... I am seriously suggesting here being
self-insured.
Monday, July 06, 2009
Friday, May 22, 2009
Ariadne's Thread: I have considered insanity as a method of decision-making... insanity is repeating the same action and expecting a different result. In the alternative, there is the thread leading from where we are to the desired result. In laying that thread we establish the choices along the way as failures (not worth repeating) with the one success becoming a lengthening of the thread. We'll get to the goal, to the solution of the problem... if it's a problem we're having the other alternative in time is to ignore it and let it join the other problems that will eventually undo us... Or rather we can perceive that problem as part of the human condition. http://www.cinemavii.com/images/washdc/4.htm
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
General acknowledgement... well, there are classic films out there... I so enjoyed the James Whale film with uh... it was in vienna... great wizard of oz and Ms. Caroll... and then last night I turned on uh, hard eight? Sydney... Mr. PT Anderson's film... seamlessly scripted cinema... slept after 40 minutes with more to come the only relief being that what was coming was somehow an offshoot of bob le flambeur. The feeling that All fits into place follows now with regard to There Will Be Blood... It's looking like a very likeable film for which affection will only grow... I don't think I've fully explored my capability for flakey self-expression. The other amazing awareness and I thank you for it, is... There is a pre-life; there is an after-life; but to achieve affectuation, there is no better time to do so than during This Life.
Oh yes, I am grateful to have the music set tonight. I've been active with various matters over the month of April and I'm always grateful to see the end of April. No, I never set music to The Wasteland, but here's the page with my 1970's interpretation of TS Eliot's Four Preludes: http://www.cinemavii.com/projects/TSEliot.htm
The performance tonight introduces to my songs the sound of the sitar...
SideWalk Waltz (Back to the Simple Days)Two Cranes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNpvHeBdmKo
I Love the Law
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4ZCrjy3gcOw
Love Them Both
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lP3xn2iU2cA
Question of Solitude Theme Song with SitarVision Quest 1 -- Peaceful Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aSR6QbpQBFs
alternate version:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1KTH-49G0U
Vision Quest 2 -- That Much Better
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GSO8989sXyA
Vision Quest 3 -- Give This Chant a Chance
Along the Highway in B
My Defenses are Down (Cover of a Song by Irving Berlin
Anything else? Electronica is a major timewaster... I buy something and getting it up and running takes time... That time must be factored in... how about buying something out of an open box, something that's tested and used... Good. I want something old that works. Now, I bought a toy video camera with an SD card attachment, I got a mini sd card... 4 gig... anyway, this storage system is very small and there are no moving parts... is the disappearance of the info only a magnet away? There's not that much space, or there's a limitless amount of space in the universe... what else? I was sick over the month and there was advice from Tyr Throne... we're not really carnivores, maybe we're omnivores but with the length of the digestive tract... we're absorbing over a period of time well beyond cats and dogs and other carnivores... and over that 24 hours the stuff has to be pretty stable... it can't be overly fermentible... as for anything packaged for shelf life... maybe salt is ok... other creative consultant bombshells from Tyr... revealing concealed estros... It's all part of A Question of Solitude now... thank you.
Saturday, March 21, 2009
It's looking to me like each of Bernard Shaw's plays, preceded by its essay of coalesced elements, is a gift to the world. There's a good review of the Bible's New Testament in the 100 pages that precede his script for Androcles and the Lion. (I returned to it for a quote that I have yet to find about the audience at a roman colleseum that will appear in a nursing home in "A Question of Solitude" a new script with a reading at La Mama on March 31st.)
I thought that the silencing from martyrdom at calvary produced a worldwide backlash still felt 2000 years later, but Shaw's critique suggests that the silencing was successful. The teaching of a brilliant thinker (deluded, perhaps by a chance suggestion of one of his apostles, namely Peter) was usurped by ... well, to quote the words that seem particularly worthwhile...
"Paul succeeded in stealing the image of Christ crucified for the figure-head of his salvationist vessel, with its Adam posing as the natural man, its doctrine of original sin, and its damnation avoidable only by faith in the sacrifice of the cross. No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus."
This is of double concern for me since I applied the genesis story in a recent piece, Paradise Found. I thought I was resonating the original biblical book, when I was mouthing an interpretation of it by Paul, which I have never read.
Anyway, the simply stated conclusion of Shaw is "There has really never been a more monstrous imposition perpetrated than the imposition of the limitations of Paul's soul upon the soul of Jesus."
Saying that sounds radical, and I am drawn toward radical statements... however Shaw offers a thoughtful argument before making it.
Wednesday, March 04, 2009
While there may be a physical decline processing within us as we travel through time, technology is advancing, supplementing, perhaps also supplanting what we lose. Eyesight is one diminishment; general awareness is another. Is this even worth saying? Today I'm better than I ever was, which suggests I was deep within a rut. It was one of my own making, arising out of my desire for AVOIDANCE. Tomorrow, again I awaken to go to a deposition in Queens for a car accident case that requires translators for all deposed, just to get a record in English of testimony that translates into a contingency fee of money for the firm, which means I get my salary in this game of legal work. I can't imagine doing anything else right now, as time indents into my hours of elyseum. I just returned from the Mac Roger Robots play, a meditation on humans supplanted by their improvements, still stumped by predicaments inherent in human nature, and they, the new race, take precautions, lest they forget, by annually conducting a religiously ritualistic history lesson. They remember how they got there, how they arrived that place. An artist created them. The new race is no better than the one it replaced.
My relationship with machines has not translated into humanizing them, because it wouldn't matter if I did. I go to bed crying that the cry for help that goes unheeded is my own.
My relationship with machines has not translated into humanizing them, because it wouldn't matter if I did. I go to bed crying that the cry for help that goes unheeded is my own.
Monday, November 24, 2008
If you're bothering to read your horoscope chances are you are alone. Safe bet the horoscope acknowledging that is going to the right person. No one can keep up with you so keep going and accept that. Kick up your heels in automobiles, it's Jimmy Durante, Laurel and Hardy, and Baron Munchausen back from the Congo, all in same sentence description for Hollywood Party.