I don’t know if it’s an omen, good or bad or what, but Ronald Reagan keeps popping up all over. Here he is with James Dean on the cover of the new Radiators From Space CD. It was sent over by Miss Templeton who explains its provenance. (But beware. There’s more Reagan to come.)
"It's from a 1952 TV playhouse thing in which Dean is rather good as a drunken beatnik and Reagan is, well, Reagan as a Doctor who has been held hostage by Dean until he can fix up his friend who is badly wounded - they can't go to a hospital because the wounds occurred in the course of a robbery or whatever. It's called "The Dark Dark Hours" and is mostly rubbish, Dean's fascinating hep-talking beatnik excepted. Classic network cheese. A black/white simplistic moral situation, decent society vs degenerate 'other' and then everyone's perennial favorite: guns. It wouldn't be more than a footnote in either actor's history, except that one of them became the President of the United States at the time when the national Chevrolet was taking a hard turn to the right. And the other become the international icon of that streak of raw American rebellion that's always there and ready and doesn't even need to wait for a cause."
The secret words are Republicans Caught In The Men’s Room
(AND DON’T FORGET I’LL BE PLAYING LIVE TOMORROW. SEE MONDAY’S POST FOR DETAILS)
Jeez Mick, I wish you would write fucking less. I go off for a few days and return to read something akin to War and Peace. Regardless, all good stuff, although gotta confess that the highlights have to be the Photo of Liz Taylor (one forgets how gobsmackingly stunning she was) and the video of Cameron Diaz (or does this just single me out as a poor sad pervert!!!!).
ReplyDeleteLove the idea of James Dean and Regan together, perhaps somewhere there is a bit of grainy film from the 70s of John Wayne dueting with Sid Vicious, singing 'Old Shep' (always makes me cry that song).
Now, pass the bottle of old crow and get a glass for yourself.
Reagan, the omen.
ReplyDeletethe secret world is ARNIE.
ps: "But if dogs have a heaven
Theres one thing I know
Old shep has a wonderful home"
MH
Welcome back Billy. We have greatly missed your whiskey breath and were worried something had happened to you -- and perhaps you had gone where the good doggies go.
ReplyDeleteSo you basic advice is to write less and post more pics of fine looking women?