[AGL] Trump Rally in Woolridge Park rained out

[Frances Morey]

Amazingly, Stanley Walker is the last of the Horses Asses not literarily up to belonging to the Mad Dogs. He certainly knew them all but his forte was drinking, smoking tobacco and marrying a succession of 23 year old women.
Thanks to J. Dave Moriaty my personal memorial of Gary Cartwright in Corpus Christi was a reading of his and Bud Shrake's collaboration in an article submitted to the "Rip Off Review of Western Culture under the pseudonym, M. D. Shafer. The title is "Acting Strange: Hopper's Nickel Bag Medicine Show Comes to Dime Box." They reported on the dicey process of making a film with Bud Shrake's script. It was shot in Mexico with an impossible collection of chemically addled mega-egoists, actors, lighting specialists, camera men, along with Mexicans who by law were required to be on the set acting as Censor, a rebellious chauffeur and assorted goffers. By the time it was released the title had been changed to "Kid Blue."
I got to view the film on UT campus decades ago as part of the Austin Film Society. Bud Shrake, as screenwriter, was at the showing speaking on the filming process. He described his harrowing experiences dealing with Hollywood executives in bringing the film to theatrical release.I was quite taken with the "Kid Blue." It was very funny. Yet it fell just short of achieving the quality and fame of "Blazing Saddles." Shrake shared why that happened. He pointed to machinations of a succession of Hollywood executives, who came and went during the making of the film. He described it this way, "It wasn't their film." Since they were not in on it from the beginning they did everything they could to torpedo it and go on to productions they could own.J. David Moriaty published the piece in the "Rip Off Review of Western Culture" at the Rip Off Press in San Francisco, 1972. Thank you, Dave.Best,Frances
    On Saturday, March 4, 2017 12:49 PM, eisenstadt0 <eisenstadt0 at gmail.com> wrote:
 

 here's it is 12:30pm and its raining. and wife Madelon has the car.

if i miss Jap's memorial at the Sholz Garten after the rained out Trump
Rally, it it will be an eery reprise of the memorial at the Sholz Garten
for Fletcher Boone, known to some as the Wizard. It was in the evening,
it rained a storm, and i had a head cold and did not go.

I did make it a point to find out from someone who was there, whether
anybody got up and said something to memorialize Fletch. The creepy
answer was that nobody spoke, they just drank.

Jap is the last of the grand litterateurs of the Raw Deal, all those guys
are dead, except for the ex-doctor from California. I would guess that
the memorial of Jap will be attended by Jan Reid, Dorothy, Claudette,
Janet Gilles, and others known or unknown.

The memorial for Jap at the Sholz Garten may be an organized event
at the Sangerrunde Hall next door, unlike Fletcher's which apparently
was just a booze up at the Garten itself. Think Stanley Walker.

So if it is at the Sangerrunde Hall, one can expect literary testimonials
to Jap's fertile pen from the stage and free beer in pitchers. rain or
no rain, am i up 2 this?

posted at 12:50



   
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