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Apples falling far

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I have been obsessed with Beverly di Angelo of late - she of horse riding in Central Park Hair fame,   Patsy Cline in Coal Miners Daughter  and mother of twins at 49 with Serpico and sexy super sexy voice. She bought the Dan Akroyd haunted house who bought it from Ringo Starr who bought it from Mama Cass. It was built for Natalie Wood. In her prime, Bev left show biz for a decade and married a young blond Italian comely count … who told her Pacino was a fantastic actor … so go be with him. Her kids are another example of beautiful people having surprisingly less than the same looking dazzling offspring … like Bruce and Demi. I feel a little mean writing this but just sayin and nobody cares and life’s relatively short and ultimately tragic so … so what.  
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from Days Without End

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Ti me was not something then we thought of as an item that possessed an ending, but something that would go on forever, all rested and stopped in that moment.                                                                                                -Sebastian Barry
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  From my good friend Paul ...  by Heather Cox Just after midnight on January 1, in a private ceremony in the long-closed former City Hall subway station in Manhattan, New York Attorney General Letitia James swore Zohran Mamdani into office as mayor of New York on a historic Quran. Hours later, Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT) swore Mamdani in publicly in a ceremony on the steps of City Hall. “My fellow New Yorkers—today begins a new era,” Mamdani said. The new mayor emphasized that he represents the everyday people of New York City, “construction workers in steel-toed boots and halal cart vendors whose knees ache from working all day” and “neighbors who carry a plate of food to the elderly couple down the hall, those in a rush who still lift strangers’ strollers up subway stairs.” “I stand alongside over one million New Yorkers who voted for this day nearly two months ago,” Mamdani said, ”and I stand just as resolutely alongside those who did not…. I promise you this: if you are...
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  Network Notorious Sunday Bloody Sunday Holiday Godfather Tootsie Klute Hair Last Tango in Paris Mockingbird Taxi Driver Member of the Wedding Women in Love Rosemarys Baby A Special Day Looking for Mr. Goodbar My Beautiful Launderette Sweet smell of success Jean de Florette Dog Day Afternoon The Heart is a Lonely Hunter Giant East of Eden Manon of the Spring Breathless Day for Night Lion in Winter Petulia The Conformist Don’t Look Now Nashville Deer Hunter Shoot the Moon Night of the Hunter Sunset Blvd Once upon a time in America Hannah and her sisters Topkapi My Left Foot Far From the Madding Crowd Shampoo My next door neighbor texted me and said we should catch up. We have never caught up. It was a nice gesture. He came over with chocolates. We talked about the building, our neighbors, our nyc histories and both of us noted how fast time has  passed.  I sent him the above list of great films upon his request.  What are your fav movies?
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  welcome Mr. Mayor  Foremost city to embrace lives, languages and dreams  songs at the inauguration  -  everyday people, here comes the sun, over the rainbow, Talking Heads, Times r a changin' …  And a poem titled Proof   …  New York, city of invention, Roiling town, refresher And re-newer, New York, city of the real, Where the canyons Whisper in a hundred Tongues, New York, Where your lucky self Waits for your Arrival, Where there is always soil For your root. This is our time.
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please deliver to Miss Rickie Lee Jones

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Hi Rickie …  I' m spending this new years eve day listening to you and thought … lets google how to contact RLJ … and alas and lo and behold … Emily … hope this gets to you.  Besides almost a half century of taking in your gift  … I kinda have two connections to you … my old pal Jim Baggett interviewed you for some mag way way back in the day and gave me the enclosed fab pic of the two of you … all young and alive and pretty and glad to be where you were with wide eyes and hearts.  And I worked for a time at Saturday Nite Live and was lucky enough to witness you becoming an over week star sensation ... maybe on the cover of Time Mag ... if I recall correctly.  leaning on your parking meter.  Just want to thank you for your work. I am a writer and have always been more  inspired/influenced/impressed by stellar music artists ...  zimmerman/joni/Laura/van/you ...  than plain old scribes with just words at the ready.     Have a splendid...
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Pigs n' Dolls

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  Every Christmas while visiting my niece … I feel a pang of jealousy as I take in her beautiful tree … adorned with keepsakes … including many dolls from around the world my mom brought back for her from their travels. They're well made and remind me of how little I liked  anything my mother gifted me.  I can recall only one gift which was the exception. When I was in college she gave me a toy movie projector that ran films about The Three Little Pigs.  It fascinated me and my hippie friends when we took acid. She had bought one for a grandchild, I admired it and very surprisingly, she bought for me. I doubt she ever said to herself … boy, I bet Paul and his tripped out hippie housemates would enjoy playing with this toy when they watch Yellow Submarine and listen   to  Tommy.
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