Thursday - 070419 - More Tobey and Clive; Lunch; Kitty Carlisle Hart; "Jacob's Ladder"

	I did seem to spend a lot of time last week looking for images of Tobey and Clive. I'd find dozens of the same image. And then at image #459, I'd find a new one, and it would not show up again. Image search algorithms have a long way to go. I want to be able to say I need an image of Clive Owen standing on a hill wearing a dark mac. Whoever can figure that puzzle out should be able to make billions.
Clive Owen Larger image		Tobey Maguire Larger image

A friend and I corresponded about the death of Kitty Carlisle Hart, one of the greatest patrons of the arts in this or the last century. And she was absolutely indefatigable. Just to read all the things she was involved in left me exhausted. Her obit can be found at "Kitty Carlisle Hart, Actress and Arts Advocate, Dies at 96 = "The New York Times".

She was still performing as of last year at Feinstein's at the Regency in New York City, in St. Louis, Missouri, Phoenix, Arizona, Atlanta, Georgia, and at the famed Plush Room in San Francisco.

She was married for many years to Moss Hart (October 24, 1904 – December 20, 1961) who was one of the premier American playwrights and directors.

Moss was bi-sexual, a fact she sought to ignore. According to Moss Hart,

"Hart was married to Kitty Carlisle, and they had two biological children. Nonetheless, the longtime bachelor was thought to be homosexual by many of his own friends and reportedly spent much time in therapy regarding his attraction to men. (Carlisle reportedly did ask him if he was gay before they married and he responded that he was not.)

In his screenplay for the 1952 film Hans Christian Andersen, Hart wrote the following line for bisexual actor Danny Kaye (playing the title character): "You'd be surprised how many kings are only a queen with a moustache." "

I also read a book I'd picked up at "Borders" the week before called "Jacob's Ladder."

Plot is that a boy wakes up in a field with no memory of how he got there. An elder appears and takes him to a village where everyone wears grey. Each day the take a bus into the countryside, pick up rocks and put them in a basket, have lunch, pick up more rocks and go home.

No one knows how they got there, and there's such a lethargy about the place that no one thinks of trying to escape. Each night before bed time. they play a memory game, in which they will reveal any memories they have.

There's talk of a place called the "Palace of Remembrance." It turns out that no one remembers anything, because they're all dead. But if you reach the "Palace," the Queen allows you to return to life at the moment of your death. But you don't remember anything that happened while you were dead.

Now what on earth can I say about a plot like that. I guess that when you return to life, you can re-examine the options you have. Or something along those lines. Not very original. And to be honest, I found myself skipping chunks of pages at a time.