Tag Archives: 50

The New 50 is the Old 50

November 21, 2016 – 11:04 am

Men celebrate their 50th birthday. Women avoid any mention of age. Men don’t care. To them fifty is the old age of youth and the youth of old age. 50 came as a surprise to me and I started the party in Pattaya to Bangkok to New York to Boston and finally Watchic Pond in […]

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CLOCKWORK ORANGE 50

May 15, 2012 – 5:33 pm

CLOCKWORK ORANGE turns 50 today. Anthony Burgess had written the book fast. He thought that he was going to die from a brain tumor. The author later described the novel thusly; “a jeu d’esprit knocked off for money in three weeks, it became known as the raw material for a film which seemed to glorify […]

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Prince Turns 50

June 9, 2008 – 12:56 pm

In December of 1982 I was walking down East 14th Street with Richie Boy Winick. Our destination was a nightclub or a bar in the neighborhood. Passing under the marquee of the Palladium, I spotted Benji was at the ropes of the concert hall. I had worked with the portly Jamaican at Arthur Weinstein’s infamous after-hour […]

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