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here for news May to August 2011) THE PRESENT BLOG WAS DISCONTINUED ON 31 December 2011, UPON PUBLICATION OF VOLUME 3 OF IN THE HEART OF SHOWBIZ (NY: chelCbooks, 424 pages) http://chelcbooks.com/ ____________________________________________________ Happenings31 December 2011When
I lived in Hell's Kitchen on 45th Street, two
blocks from where the ball falls from the old Times
building on New Year's Eve, I never missed the
wild scene. Now, with everyone penned in for
hours and no bathroom and no way to push back
and forward until someone would fall and risk
being stomped upon, it wouldn't be any fun at
all. I'll be watching at home in Greenwich
Village as I have for quite a few years. The
good ol' days are gone forever, and with
trepidation and anxiety I think about the
growing gap between poor and rich, the growing
interest in theistic authoritarianism rather
than democratic secularism, and the dumbing down
of the importance of the humanities.
30 December 2011 I
have a new Executor of my Estate: Emery,
an attorney who pointed out that my self-written
Will had all the italics and semicolons in the
right place but contained major legal
deficiencies. Moral: Don't be your own lawyer or
your own physician! But do write
7 books between being 80 and 90. . . .
 27 December 2011 Following
is a photo about one of my former New Canaan
parents, famed American photographer Pedro
E. Guerrero
(who worked with Frank Lloyd Wright, Alexander
Calder, and Louise Nevelson). It was sent to me
by his daughter, my ex-student Barbara
Guerrero
in Vermont.
Pedro (born 1917) is reading The New York Times on his new iPad2. Not bad for another nonagenarian.  I'm in between the sheets with Actress Dame Maggie Smith and nine pages of other Smiths in the just-received Who's Who in the World 2012 (Marquis, 29th Edition). I'm cross-indexed in Arts:Literary between Sir Salman Rushdie and Gore Vidal. I'm not bragging, just reporting. . . . 26 December 2011 The
cause of Rapper Heavy D's
November 8th death was announced by the Los Angeles
County Coroner's Office: a pulmonary embolism caused
by deep leg vein thrombosis. Dwight Arlington Myers
had died after a flight back from Europe where he
had performed at a Michael Jackson tribute concern
in Wales. For years during any plane trip I have
made a point of getting out of my seat and walking
every 30 or so minutes. For the same reason I get up
from the computer to avoid the same problem. The
over 300-pound rapper and Sean (P. Diddy)
Combs once visited Variety Recording
Studio to see about buying it from me.
25 December 2011 God wrote again, this time not
from Italy but from British Columbia: Dearest
Maestro - As ever, God So modest, he never mentioned his son Jonathan, who portrayed Jesus in the movie-made-for-TV of Judas (2004) and Joseph Smith as the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith in The Work and the Glory (2004, 2005, 2006). Nor did he mention
whether, as Jack the Ripper, he
still haunts the areas around the Whitechapel
district of London. A Handbook for Attendants
on the Insane: The Autobiograph of Jack the Ripper
(2006) is available from amazon.com
for $26.50 or
$666.66 from chelCbooks Nor did he mention his
third trinity: acting. He has been a priest as well
as a magician, for example, and on a London stage he
was Hamlet.
Cousins
Priscilla McGeehon and Ken Smith were
again end-of-year hosts for Ligardy and me.
Ken actually cooked a goose, and one of the side
dishes included rabbit. Other guests included artist
Rick Purdy, wife Lea, and their three children.
Rick's daughter Helen raced to get in the picture,
and just behind me are two of her father Rick's
works. We all have an Iowa connection. (Photo is by
Helen's mother, Lea.) |
