The Shakespeare Lebowski

  AS I STATED IN MY 'ONE IDIOT TO ANOTHER' POST...DUDE IS A VICTIM. HIS COMPULSIONS[NEUROSES] INCLUDE MOST WELL KNOWN ADDICTIONS. THE ALCOHOLIC. THE DRUG ADDICT, AND THE GAMBLER.. 'STARMAN' THE MOVIE SEES JEFF BRIDGES PLAYING YET AGAIN A COMPULSIVE  CARD PLAYER/ ONE ARM BANDIT ADDICT WHO THEORETICALLY HITS THE  'JACK-POT' [INTERESTING WORD!] IN 'VEGAS'. GAMBLERS DEVELOP AMAZING COVER STORIES FOR THEIR LOSSES BUT ALWAYS LOVE TO TELL ANYONE WHO WILL LISTEN ABOUT THEIR 'BIG WINS'. I HAVE HAD DEALINGS WITH GAMBLERS IN MY WORKING LIFE AS A CAB DRIVER FOR MORE THAN 35 YEARS, AND I HAVE OBSERVED HOW THEY BECOME OBSESSED BY WINNING, TO THE EXTENT, THAT EVEN THE MONEY INVOLVED HAS NO REAL RELEVANCE, ITS THE WINNING THAT MEANS EVERYTHING. PLAYING CARDS HAVE A LONG HISTORY, AND WHAT THE ENGLISH SPEAKING WORLD USES TO PLAY VARIOUS GAMES, POKER ETC..ARE NOT THE SAME AS CARDS USED IN OTHER COUNTRIES, HISPANIC, FOR EXAMPLE. 'TREBOL'[CLUBS] 'ESPALD...

mmm             http://www.anima-mundi-seminare.org/eng/pahl.htm  WATCHED, 'HEIST',[2016] TODAY, WITH, ROBERT DE NIRO. COULDN'T, HELP, BUT, THINK, OF, 'A BRONX TALE', ALSO, BY, OLD HAM BOB. [HIS BEST WORK]WHERE, HE, PLAYS, A BUS DRIVER.. A BRONX TALE, HAS, A KID, HELPING OUT, A,NEIGHBOURHOOD, GANGSTER, BY, STAYING, SILENT, AFTER,WITNESSING, A TRAUMATIC EVENT. 'HEIST', IS, ABOUT, DIS-ENCHANTED, DAUGHTERS?. OLD BOB, PLAYS, A GOOD PART, BUT, THE MOVIE, ON, THE WHOLE, IS,MINOR LEAGUE, COMPARED TO THE 'GODFATHER'[CARPET SHOULDERING THIEF THERE TOO, DUDE] THIS, BOB, AND, BUS, THING, THO', INTRIGUES, ME..MAYBE, BOB'S DAD, WAS, A BUS DRIVER?..A BRONX TALE, WAS, BRILLIANT,DEFINITELY, UP THERE,AMONGST, HIS,BEST ROLES...ABORTION ADVOCATE, BOB, SHOULD, REMEMBER...THE BUS ALWAYS, RETURNS, TO, THE DEPOT. WHAT, GOES, ROUND...COMES ROUND...KAPICHE?.. HANDSOME BOB, IS, A BIT OF, A YANKEE PIRATE...BUT, OLD ...

  Actor George Clooney hams it up again,in Coens 'new' Movie-'Hail Caesar!'. [playing an 'Old Soldier', George? tsk tsk, Zero Mostel would be turning in His grave...Oldsogers, are very fishy..ha ha ha..!] The Coens, as usual use old Hollywood Classics to develop Their Scripting. 'Julius Caesar' with Marlon Brando etc ALCOHOL AND KIDNAP OF COURSE, IS THE BACCHANALIAN UNDERTHEME. YOU GOTTA LAUGH THO', AT HOW SERIOUSLY THEY ATTEMPT THEIR ENTERPRISES...USING KARL MARX AND HIS COMEDIC 'PHILOSOPHY'.. SIGMUND FREUD AND HIS  THEOREM TO ILLUSTRATE ONSCREEN THEIR CONTEMPT FOR AMERICA, AND IT'S, ETHOS. BITING THE HAND THAT,FEEDS, YOU? THE COEN BROTHERS, PROMOTE JUDAISM BRILLIANTLY.... BUT ALCOHOL IS ALWAYS SOMEPLACE IN THEIR MOVIES. https://lordsofthedrinks.com/2014/11/06/karl-marx-the-drunkard-who-laid-the-foundation-for-communism/ 'THE HISTORY OF THE WORKING CLASS, AND IT'S STRUGGLES...' SAID KARL...[of course ...