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Chino [Loki the Fish]

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  Actor Lee Marvin [former USMC] in a 'Promo'  pic for the Movie 'The Wild One' [1953]-playing 'CHINO' Marvin was quite a shrewd Operator- He is the only Actor I know who has actually selected His own DIRECTOR when making a Movie-  'POINT BLANK'[ 1967] The DIRECTOR -JOHN BOORMAN.  review: "What makes  Point Blank  so extraordinary, however, is not its departures from genre conventions, but Boorman's virtuoso use of such unconventional avant-garde stylistics to saturate the proceedings with a classical noir mood of existential torpor and romanticized fatalism." Themes Viewers and critics have often questioned whether or not the film is really a dream that Walker has after he is shot in the beginning. The film's director  John Boorman  claims to not have an opinion on the matter.  "What it is, is what you see", responded Boorman. While filmmaker  Steven Soderbergh  has described  Point Blank  as "memory film" for Marv...

Go Ask Alice-White Rabbit - Jefferson Airplane

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                         Lloyd Bridges and Son 'Beau' appeared in the 1985 TV Version of 'Alice in Wonderland' playing the 'Unicorn' and 'White Knight'..... https://aliceinwonderland.fandom.com/wiki/Alice_in_Wonderland_(1985) [I thought Telly Savalas was a great 'Cheshire Cat'] did You know 'Go Ask Alice' is 'Spanish?' Slick got the idea for this  song  after taking LSD and spending hours listening to the Miles Davis album Sketches Of Spain, especially the opening track, "Concierto de Aranjuez." The Spanish beat she came up with was also influenced by Ravel's "Bolero."                           .THIS CAT  DISAPPEARED UNTIL ALL THAT REMAINED  WAS HIS GRIN..LOL.. `Well! I've often seen a cat without a grin,' thought Alice; `but a grin without a cat! It's the most curious thing I ever saw in my life!' She had not gone much farther before she ...

Arthur Green

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[above Pic from 'FAT CITY' 1972 Drinking My Coffee -look at Jeff's Nose-seems somewhat different these days? RHINOPLASTY? or damage from 'SNORTING'? who knows.. ] 'THEODORE' [Roosevelt or 'KEREBATSOS] is 'Donny's Selected PRESIDENT [of the USA] In the 'Game'. 'ARTHUR' is 'Dudes' [CHESTER  ARTHUR  US PRESIDENT] 'NIXON' and 'JOHNSON' 'LINCOLN' etc along with 'Wheelchair user FD ROOSEVELT'  See where I'm going here?...as well as a Board GAME....these 'PRESIDENTS' re-presentsomething else in the Psyche of the Writers but without Dialogue I'll leave it there. Character Names 'CARL SHOW-ALTER' [STEVE BUSCEMI] or 'GA-EAR GRIMSRUD' [PETER STORMARE] used in 'FARGO' Movie are 'Transposed' into new 'forms' based on Theatre Productions which for some reason have a connection? I think this connection is SHAKESPEARE- but more specifically SHAKESPEARE...