And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
David Mamet from "Recessional": My dear friend Mary Ann Madden wrote the wordplay competition in New York magazine (1969–2000). Each week she’d issue a new challenge to us would-be gag writers and print her choice of the winner two weeks on. (Example: Change one letter of a well-known title or phrase. Winner: Lincoln Center for the Performing Ants.) I’ve long regretted the passing of the competition, for I came up, quite lately, with two boffo, surefire winners (twenty years too late). Both, allusions to the wonderful film year of 1939: Gone with the Wino, and “Some Whore over the Rainbow.”
Is my mind filling in the color of her lips? They appear red in this B&W photo. Anyone else?
ReplyDeleteI was just noticing that! Saved it to my HD and opened it in something I could enlarge the pic with. Sure enough there's red on her lips.
Deletenice gloss on the stockings, skin, too.
Deletethe foto is rather heavily "retouched", and quite well.
Judy would like to go over the rainbow and Frank just wants to get laid.
ReplyDeleteDavid Mamet from "Recessional":
DeleteMy dear friend Mary Ann Madden wrote the wordplay competition in New York magazine (1969–2000). Each week she’d issue a new challenge to us would-be gag writers and print her choice of the winner two weeks on. (Example: Change one letter of a well-known title or phrase. Winner: Lincoln Center for the Performing Ants.) I’ve long regretted the passing of the competition, for I came up, quite lately, with two boffo, surefire winners (twenty years too late). Both, allusions to the wonderful film year of 1939: Gone with the Wino, and “Some Whore over the Rainbow.”
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ReplyDeleteBoy! I'd have that same look on my face if I was sitting next to her!!!
ReplyDeleteShe doesn't appear to be having nearly as much fun as he is.
DeleteLadies are the receivers and sometimes Italian men are not so gentle.
DeleteNever cared much for Frank. But then I read about his WW2 avoidance. He is crap.
ReplyDeleteThat look of his is almost psychotic.
ReplyDeleteBoth are wearing some very nice clothes.
ReplyDeleteI think she may have been 17 or18 years old, Frank was 24 in 1940.
ReplyDeleteAnybody else see a resemblance between young Frankie and a young Jack Nicholson, at this angle?
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