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YET ANOTHER LIST

Woke up this morning with the beginning of a list of one favorite (that came to mind) movie for each letter of the alphabet (some of them un-woke) with titles whose first word is 'THE" and ended up with this (have the feeling I've done this before)::

THE AMERICANIZATION OF EMILY

 THE BEST YEARS OF OUR LIVES

THE COMMITMENTS

THE DEVIL AND DANIEL WEBSTER

THE EQUALIZER

THE FIGHTER

THE GRAPES OF WRATH

THE HUMAN COMEDY

THE INFORMER

THE JANE AUSTEN BOOK CLUB

THE KID (the Chaplin silent)

THE LAST OF THE MOHICANS

THE MALTESE FALCON

THE NATURAL

THE OTHERS

THE PERSECUTION AND ASSASSINATION OF JEAN-PAUL MARAT AS PERFORMED BY THE INMATES OF THE ASYLUM OF CHARENTON UNDER THE DIRECTION OF THE MARQUIS DE SADE

THE QUIET MAN

THE RED SHOES

THE SEARCHERS

THE TREASURE OF THE SIERRA MADRE

THE UMBRELLAS OF CHERBOURG

THE VAN

THE WIND THAT SHAKES THE BARLEY

THE X?

THE YOUNG SAVAGES

THE Z?

[had to use google to check the full title of Marat/Sade and the spelling of Cherbourg]

DISCOVERY

 

Longtime dear friend Bobby Miller found this photo he took of me in we are guessing 1982 and at first didn't know who it was. I'd never seen it until he posted it to my FaceBook timeline two days ago. Pretty fortunate to have so many of my lives documented.

CLARENCE WILLIAMS III R.I.P.

 
Most older folks first noticed Clarence Williams III in the TV show THE MOD SQUAD. Or younger older folks as Prince's father in PURPLE RAIN. But I was first knocked out by his acting in Shirley Clarke's 1963 masterpiece, near the top of my list of all-time favorite films, THE COOL WORLD, where he plays brilliantly a teenage gang leader in Harlem who becomes a junkie.

In my LA years I was lucky enough to get to know him and have the chance to tell him that and what a great actor I thought he was always, despite the career and personal challenges he faced. I really really liked the guy, not just his acting, and am sorry to hear of his passing. Rest in well-deserved peace, Clarence.

NEW LIST

Woke up with this list in my head:

ANOUK AIMEE

BRIDGET BARDOT

CYD CHARISSE

DOROTHY DANDRIDGE

ELAINE EQUI

FIONNULA FLANAGAN

GRETA GARBO

HERBIE HANCOCK

JAMES JOYCE

KATHERINE KOCH

LOTTE LENYA

MARILYN MONROE

NIKKI NASH

OLIVE OYL

PARKER POSEY

ROY ROGERS

SALLY SILVERS

TINA TURNER

VIDA VIERRA

WALT WHITMAN

REVISIT

 
I've posted this favorite photo of the late great poet Ed Cox and me before, but wanted to add that this was around the time in 1972 (if not the day of) when he and I gave a poetry reading at Catholic University in DC where we shocked the authorities by reading poems about our romantic and sexual relationships with other men, considered a crime and mental illness at the time, and the late, and then young, great poet Tim Dlugos came up afterward to tell us we were his heroes. Tim and I became dear friends from that moment on until his passing from AIDS in 1990.

PRIDE MONTH

I want to wish joy and happiness to all those who celebrate LGBTQI+ pride this month around the world, especially to those who still feel they have to live a secret life because of family and societal and governmental intolerance, harassment, and violence. And those—like myself at times in my life—who feel confused and misunderstood and ever-changing and growing in self awareness and self-understanding and self-acceptance...