Monthly Archives: September 2016

Rambling Lookalike

September 15, 2016 – 9:27 am

I had a British girlfriend who looked like Charlotte. We did our own version of NIGHT PORTER in my East Village. In the dark bedroom the scene also rang true. Sort of. But Charlotte was Charlotte and Miranda was Miranda, which should have been good enough for me. Nothing an old fool to see the […]

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Sally Fields – Gidget – You Bet I Would

September 13, 2016 – 10:29 pm

And she was also THE FLYING NUN. And No I wouldn’t.

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Colonel Tarleton’s Boots

September 13, 2016 – 5:16 pm

Banastre Tarleton’s family’s fortune was founded by his paternal grandfather’s dealing in the slave trade. The shipowner’s grandson blew through his inheritance on women, wine, and cards. With his last money Banastre purchased an officer’s commission in the 1st Dragoon Guards. Tarleton served throughout the American Revolution with the notorious British Legion. He spared no […]

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Hasankeyf The Undrowned

September 13, 2016 – 3:19 pm

The Turkish town of Hasankeyf has existed on the Tigris River for over 12,000 years. This ancient community is now threatened by flooding with the completion of the Ilisu Dam. People had inhabited the spot in the Middle Bronze Age under the Hurrian kings. Its name then is lost to the dust of time, however […]

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Fiends in High Places

September 10, 2016 – 9:10 am

My move to Paris from New York in 1982 came with costs. I said good-byes to Anne Borchert and Jill Chapman. The first ended up having an affair with the artist Jean Michel Basquiat. The second maintained a letter correspondence informing me about the Internal Affairs investigation concerning Viktor Malenski’s murder at the Continental. The […]

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