tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post115479938793180156..comments2024-03-17T18:57:54.001+01:00Comments on Limited, Inc.: robert kaplan - stoogeRoger Gathmannhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-54917435777838198022010-01-03T03:24:45.704+01:002010-01-03T03:24:45.704+01:00Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your ol...Your blog keeps getting better and better! Your older articles are not as good as newer ones you have a lot more creativity and originality now keep it up!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-1154976789879695712006-08-07T20:53:00.000+02:002006-08-07T20:53:00.000+02:00I admit, I am powerfully tempted to trash all of t...I admit, I am powerfully tempted to trash all of this insignificant political/cultural schmatter schmatter schmatter I usually do and devote myself exclusively to Kitty C. -- the aura, the legend, the reality. From the tyke to the matron, from Hollywood noblesse oblige to her secret life under the pen name "Malcolm Lowry". <BR/><BR/>However, I am going to go get a drink and think about it all. This is a serious step.Roger Gathmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-1154973914910256362006-08-07T20:05:00.000+02:002006-08-07T20:05:00.000+02:00I just saw (and met) Kitty Carlisle Hart over the ...I just saw (and met) Kitty Carlisle Hart over the weekend in North Hollywood. Nearly 96, she's still a class act with plenty of wonderful stories (I've posted a "review" on my blog at www.steveonbroadway.com).Steve On Broadway (SOB)https://www.blogger.com/profile/04353077627991682499noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-1154845512256341612006-08-06T08:25:00.000+02:002006-08-06T08:25:00.000+02:00It's true that nothing was quite so poetic as 'The...It's true that nothing was quite so poetic as 'The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby,' but there were sections in 'Bonfire of the Vanities' that were much of what Capote would have written about the East Side if he hadn't been so blocked and unwell. Agree about movie, they thought it was a wonderful idea to make it as horrible as possible.<BR/><BR/>Miss Carlisle was on 'To Tell the Truth' which 'also starred', as one writer of the day put it, 'beauteous Betsy Palmer.' Ms. Carlisle was for that show what glamour-drenched, bejeweled and smoky-voiced Arlene Francis was for 'What's My Line.' They always let Arlene cheat.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-1154841989408891412006-08-06T07:26:00.000+02:002006-08-06T07:26:00.000+02:00That movie was perhaps one of the worst movies eve...That movie was perhaps one of the worst movies ever. You can't judge a book, however, by the cocaine addled movie concocted out of some illiterate's summary of it for a producer - on this I think we can all agree.<BR/><BR/>So Kitty Carlisle acted with the Marx Bros! I am bowled over. I have childhood memories of her on quiz shows, but like all quiz show personalities in the sixties, you never quite knew where these people came from. Rather like the faces on Teen People now. <BR/><BR/>I like Wolfe, I admit, much better for his sixties and seventies journalism. And he didn't help his case by writing that manifesto about novel writing and how he was going to rescue it by going back to Balzac, a writer of whose work he was obviously widely and copiously ignorant. But far be it from me to put Wolfe down here -- in this post, I was complimenting him re the Vietnam piece he did about bomber pilots which, although bloodthirsty to a degree, actually rocked.Roger Gathmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-1154817815927780222006-08-06T00:43:00.000+02:002006-08-06T00:43:00.000+02:00http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/3691/Events/36...http://www.imdb.com/gallery/granitz/3691/Events/3691/DavidHydeP_Count_6173433_400.jpg?path=pgallery&path_key=Carlisle,%20Kitty<BR/><BR/>Still adorable at 95...she was great with the Marx Brothers in 'A Night at the opera' and then sang 'Die Fliedermaus' at the Met in late 60's. Born in New Orleans and has been divine social x-ray with NYState Council on the Arts and other such institutions for many years, including dotty shows about King Tut. She was rude to a friend of mine who was pretending to just be asking her directions at a museum some years back, but really knew that she was Kitty Carlisle, and Ms. Carlisle knew this, so let her know it in no uncertain terms. This ex-friend was always trying to drag celebs down to her own level, including the ones that didn't deserve it. <BR/><BR/>I like Mailer in many ways too, he's a great writer and a real son-of-a-bitch character, too. I hope you're going to make your profile's whereabouts known to us when you do it, that's a good job you've got there. I still think y'all are all mean about Mistah Wolfe, and Tom Hanks was just so shitty in the movie. But Mistah Wolfe has great ear for dialogue and dialect. I'll excuse all sorts of misbehaviour when people can do that.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-1154808904851722632006-08-05T22:15:00.000+02:002006-08-05T22:15:00.000+02:00Well, Mr. NYP, I've been commissioned to write a p...Well, Mr. NYP, I've been commissioned to write a profile of Mailer -- he's coming to Austin for a ceremony at U.T. -- and since I love Mailer, and even forgive him for the large, large faults --the screwy ancient Egyptian butt fucks, the longeurs after longeurs in Harlot's Ghost - forgive him for Marilyn, for parts of American Dream, Barbary Coast, and Deer Park, and for the great great rush of the journalism - what can I say? As for Updike, well, I feel I should try to know Updike better. Its true, though, that his going out of business sale fiction over the past decade hasn't been ... enticing. <BR/><BR/>And was Kitty Carlisle a real person? This I do want to hear about...Roger Gathmannhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11257400843748041639noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3077210.post-1154805084367391212006-08-05T21:11:00.000+02:002006-08-05T21:11:00.000+02:00Well, good stuff as usual, but you will NOT take '...Well, good stuff as usual, but you will NOT take 'Bonfire of the Vanities' away from me any more than I could turn you against Oprah BEFORE she had her mini-breakdown and tearful umbrage episode with the bad writer of institutional misreprentation. I didn't read 'A Man in Full', but some of Wolfe's fragments are better than most of what his beastly critics Updike and Mailer wrote. I especially hate the later Updike's endless diarrheas like 'Brazil' and 'In the Beauty of the Lilies.' However, I love Mailer's terrible book about Marilyn Monroe--it's filthily alive. But neither one of them invented 'social x-rays' and that itself is worthy of the National Book Award, what with Brooke Astor living in Park Avenue squalor at 104...no telling what will happening to poor Kitty Carlisle...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com