I'm shattered!! I used to have these ideas about myself as this sharp investigative person who knows how to unearth facts about people. Bullshit!! After years of Internet browsing (not to mention that famous Scarlet Street interview) and corresponding with people in England, all I had managed to get about JMB was a very meagre pack of scanty facts (although it must be said it's much more than what I've got about one of my other crazy obsessions, the American Indian --or should I say Native American-- actor Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse, probably the most elusive person ever in show business).
Then, out of the blue, or rather, out of a can of frozen orange juice, there comes an abundance of information that I could never, not in my wildest dreams, imagine I wold one day get hold of. Gosh, you know more about this guy than what I know about myself!! I'm humiliated! I think I'm definitely going to call it quits with being a sharp investigative person. A white Rolls-Royce? Is there a meaning in that choice of color, you think? I wonder what color is Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse's car, if he drives one at all, that is. He rode a horse in Dances with Wolves, but it wasn't white.
Your friend's story sounds plausible to me. In the Scarlet Street interview, JMB mocks his own attempt, as a young man, at being "this suave, cool young man." The approach your friend described to you seems to be perfectly in accordance with that pattern.
I could never understand why elusive people fascinate me so much. I'm sure it would be infinitely easier to get inside information on the likes of Matt Damon or Richard Gere or one of those. But I'm not interested. I'm only interested in the JMB's and NLCHH's of this world. Weird!
Good to see your surgery is now a thing of the past.
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Date: 2004-07-27 12:07 am (UTC)Then, out of the blue, or rather, out of a can of frozen orange juice, there comes an abundance of information that I could never, not in my wildest dreams, imagine I wold one day get hold of. Gosh, you know more about this guy than what I know about myself!! I'm humiliated! I think I'm definitely going to call it quits with being a sharp investigative person. A white Rolls-Royce? Is there a meaning in that choice of color, you think? I wonder what color is Nathan Lee Chasing His Horse's car, if he drives one at all, that is. He rode a horse in Dances with Wolves, but it wasn't white.
Your friend's story sounds plausible to me. In the Scarlet Street interview, JMB mocks his own attempt, as a young man, at being "this suave, cool young man." The approach your friend described to you seems to be perfectly in accordance with that pattern.
I could never understand why elusive people fascinate me so much. I'm sure it would be infinitely easier to get inside information on the likes of Matt Damon or Richard Gere or one of those. But I'm not interested. I'm only interested in the JMB's and NLCHH's of this world. Weird!
Good to see your surgery is now a thing of the past.