See Ballet Blanc in this journal.
For a darker perspective, click on the image below.
See also Cartier in The Hexagon of Opposition.
Happy birthday to Kirk Douglas.
Friday, December 9, 2016
Friday, December 9, 2011
Showtime!
Today's showtimes at ArcLight Hollywood—
Meanwhile…
Related (?) material—
A quote from the 2007 Anthony Hopkins film "Slipstream"—
"We've lost the plot!"—
as it has appeared in this journal.
See also the Dec. 7th note on Don Sebastian de Villanueva and…
Happy birthday, Kirk Douglas.
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Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Tuesday August 4, 2009
High Noon
Images from Log24 on
December 10, 2006 —
Nobel Prize Day, and
the day after
Kirk Douglas’s birthday—
Kirk Douglas ad for
the film “Diamonds”
(2000)
Images from
Google News
at noon today —
“The serpent’s eyes shine
as he wraps around the vine…”
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Monday, December 29, 2008
Monday December 29, 2008
The Gift
Robert Stone,
"'That old Jew gave me this here.' Egan looked at the diamond. 'I ain't giving this to you, understand? The old man gave it to me for my boy. It's worth a whole lot of money– you can tell that just by looking– but it means something, I think. It's got a meaning, like.'
'Let's see,' Egan said, 'what would it mean?' He took hold of Pablo's hand cupping the stone and held his own hand under it. '"The jewel is in the lotus," perhaps that's what it means. The eternal in the temporal. The Boddhisattva declining nirvana out of compassion. Contemplating the ignorance of you and me, eh? That's a metaphor of our Buddhist friends.' Pablo's eyes glazed over. 'Holy shit,' he said. 'Santa Maria.' He stared at the diamond in his palm with passion." For further details, click on the diamond. |
Related narratives:
Today's online Times on
the Saturday, Dec. 27,
death of an artist:
"Dale Wasserman… the playwright responsible for two Broadway hits of the 1960s, 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest' and 'Man of La Mancha,' died on Sunday [December 21, 2008] at his home in Paradise Valley, Ariz., near Phoenix….
Mr. Wasserman wrote more than 75 scripts for television, the stage and the movies, including screenplays for 'The Vikings' (1958), a seafaring epic with Tony Curtis and Kirk Douglas, and 'A Walk With Love and Death' (1969), a John Huston film set in 14th-century Europe….
He feuded with… John Huston, who gave the lead female role in 'Walk' to his teenage daughter, Anjelica, against Mr. Wasserman's wishes. And he never attended ceremonies to receive the awards he won."
Accepting for Mr. Wasserman:
Mr. Graham's widow,
Anjelica Huston —
"Well…"
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Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Tuesday December 9, 2008
The Simplest Terms
“Broken down in the simplest terms, the story centres around two warring factions, the ‘Fathers’ and the ‘Friends.'”
Today’s birthdays:
Kirk Douglas,
Buck Henry,
John Malkovich.
In a nutshell:
The Soul’s Code and
today’s previous entry.
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Sunday, December 10, 2006
Sunday December 10, 2006
The Matrix:
Time and Chance
on the 90th Birthday
of Kirk Douglas,
star of
“The Garden of Allah“
| The Lottery 12/9/06 | Mid-day | Evening |
| New York | 036
See |
331
See 3/31— “square crystal” and “the symbolism could not have been more perfect.” |
| Pennsylvania | 602
See 6/02— Walter Benjamin |
111
See 1/11— “Related material: |
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Sunday, June 18, 2006
Sunday June 18, 2006
For Mel Gibson,
who may or may not
see a parallel here.
who may or may not
see a parallel here.
IMDb Trivia for Music Box (1989)
- After the movie was released, screenwriter Joe Eszterhas‘s own father Istvan Eszterhas was accused of war crimes in Hungary by printing anti-Semitic editorials and even organizing a book burning.
- Both Kirk Douglas and Walter Matthau wanted to play the father….
Once a son,
now a father:
now a father:
“He spent his earliest years in post WWII–refugee camps. He came to America and grew up in Cleveland–stealing cars, rolling drunks, battling priests, nearly going to jail. He became the screenwriter of the worldwide hits Basic Instinct, Jagged Edge, and Flashdance. He also wrote the legendary disasters Showgirls and Jade. The rebellion never ended, even as his films went on to gross more than a billion dollars at the box office and he became the most famous–or infamous–screenwriter in Hollywood. Joe Eszterhas is a complex and paradoxical figure: part outlaw and outsider combined with equal parts romantic and moralist. More than one person has called him ‘the devil.’ He has been referred to as ‘the most reviled man in America.’ But Time asked, ‘If Shakespeare were alive today, would his name be Joe Eszterhas?'”
— Random House promotional material
And eventually to become
a holy ghost…
a holy ghost…
“Yea, though I walk
through the valley of death
I will fear no evil,
for I am the meanest
son of a bitch
in the valley.”
in The Silver Crown,
by Joel Rosenberg
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Friday, December 9, 2005
Tuesday, December 9, 2003
Tuesday December 9, 2003
Street of the Fathers
From Bruce Wagner’s Wild Palms —
Robert Morse sings in Kyoto
as negotiators discuss
the Go chip:
Coordinates for a 4×4 space:
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From
Université René Descartes,
45 rue des Saints Pères,
Paris
Today’s birthdays:
Kirk Douglas
Buck Henry
John Malkovich
Tuesday, December 10, 2002
Tuesday December 10, 2002
Great Dream of Heaven
The title is that of Sam Shepard’s new book of short stories. It is relevant to several of my recent journal entries.
This author’s own title also seems relevant. Here is an excerpt from a web page on The Church of the Good Shepherd:
“This is the oldest church in Beverly Hills, and over the years, this small house of worship has been the local parish church for most of the Catholic movie stars who live in Beverly Hills…. It has seen numerous celebrity weddings and funerals. Although the church’s interior is modest (it seats just 600), and its decor surprisingly simple, the Church of the Good Shepherd has been featured in several Hollywood films: most notably, it was the location for the funeral scene in the 1954 version of ‘A Star is Born.'”
Today’s Birthday: Emily Dickinson
Complete Poems, 1924
Part Four: Time and Eternity
This world is not conclusion;
A sequel stands beyond….
Born Yesterday: Kirk Douglas
From Douglas’s Climbing the Mountain: My Search for Meaning (Simon & Schuster, 1997) —
“Selling artwork, devoting time to charitable causes, writing novels, are all worthwhile means of occupying your time when good scripts aren’t coming your way. But then, in the spring of 1993, one did.
It was called Wrestling Ernest Hemingway, a story of a growing friendship betwen two old men dealing with the twilight of their lives…. It was brilliant….
I called my agent… “So make the deal.”
A long pause. “But the director wants to meet you.” ….
…. My agent called the next day. “She really likes you, Kirk… but… ah,” he started to stutter.
“What?”
“She wants Richard Harris.”
In the film of
Wrestling Ernest Hemingway
as finally made,
Richard Harris dies on
Hemingway’s birthday.
Dead on October 25, 2002,
Picasso’s Birthday:
Actor Richard Harris
A journal entry of October 25, 2002:
Wrestling Pablo Picasso
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Aster on a |
Picasso by Karsh |
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Wrestling Ernest |
The old men know when an old man dies.
— Ogden Nash
A description of the title story
in Sam Shepard’s Great Dream of Heaven:
“Two old men who share a house are as close as a married couple until a competition to wake up first in the morning and a mutual fascination with a Denny’s waitress drive them apart.”
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