Archive for October, 2012

In Love With Everyone and No-One

Posted in The Global Scene Through Berkeleyan Eyes on October 31st, 2012 by admin – Be the first to comment

by Steed Dropout
Oct. 30, 2012

Berkeley, Ca

IT’S A CRYING SHAME

It can be tearfully lonely to love everyone, but that is my unfortunate lot. In fact, I’m used to it — probably couldn’t change.

Is it cool to be in love with everyone?

Ask Eddie Bracken, the 1930’s actor for Preston Sturges’ stock company of characters. He starred in two of Sturges’ most successful films, The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944) and Hail the Conquering Hero (1944).

I met Bracken twenty years later, at the Traverse City Playhouse, one of those star-circuit summer playhouses, like the tented Chicago theater-in-the-round where he had last performed. He was probably in his forties, but looked more than a decade younger. He had great wavy hair. Mine was thinning, at going-on 21 that summer.

I was the press agent for the theater that summer. Bracken was doing a romantic farce for us, “Who Was That Lady?” based on a story that also was made into a film, starring Tony Curtis.
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Your Fucked Up Week and Mine

Posted in The Global Scene Through Berkeleyan Eyes on October 28th, 2012 by admin – Be the first to comment

by Steed Dropout
Oct. 28, 2012
Berkeley, Ca.

SUCKY SUNDAY

Always Berkeley, a breath of befouled air.

Ever since I’ve gone back to work, after 35 years of indolent cross-training (weight-lifting, running, and mountain biking), hanging out in Berkeley coffee houses, bookstores, and cinemas…ever since then, I’ve had a bitch-slapped awareness of the days of the week, and how that has come to affect me…now that I’m a working man at 73.

I work at the Berkeley Daily Planet, Berkeleyside, and the Daily Californian. I will come to your house to interview you, if only you would pay me.

Monday. Nursing a hangover. Must try to do better on Sunday. Always regrets for Sunday, when the pressure is on to kick-back. But you can’t kick-back, because you are anticipating the pain of what has been called ‘gloomy Monday.’ We’re gloomy because we failed to cash in on Sunday.

Sunday through Saturday, 1934, as time goes by. Photo by Ted Friedman.

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Argo, Still Fresh Tomato

Posted in Film Reviews, The Global Scene Through Berkeleyan Eyes on October 25th, 2012 by admin – Be the first to comment

By Steed Dropout
Oct. 24, 2012

Berkeley, Ca

“ARGO FUCK YOURSELF”

“Argo Fuck Yourself is a running joke from the movie, Argo which continues to fill theaters weeks after its national release last month.

Argo Fuck Yourself is WW2 military usage, like Kilroy Was Here, or In-like-Flynn (Errol, WW2 era actor, a successful womanizer.)

Photo by Ted Friedman.

Argo “only dropped 15% to $16.6 million, last weekend, making it the best hold for a non-holiday live action film on record,” according to the Bible of Showbiz — Variety
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It’s the Mitt, Stupid!

Posted in The Global Scene Through Berkeleyan Eyes on October 2nd, 2012 by admin – Be the first to comment

by Steed Dropout
September 30, 2012

CATCH THIS!

Berkeley Ca

They’ll blame his loss on gaffs, and haves vs. nots, but no one will know the the real reason for Romney’s defeat — his name.

His first name.

The founder of PR, Edward Bernays, Freud’s nephew, manipulated the subliminal to manipulate human behavior. Politics is all too human and all too manipulatable. Here’s the subliminal low-down on Mitt.

A mitt is a baseball catcher’s glove.

The baseball catcher’s mitt is a pillowy leather glove, stuffed with padding to protect a catcher’s hand from fastballs.

Mitt - uncredited.

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