April 11, 2006

• Dallas

  
  Part I,
  from
  The Circle is Unbroken,
  May 2003:
   

  Highballs “If you can bounce high, bounce for her too….”  – F. Scott Fitzgerald, epigraph to The Great Gatsby Magazine purchased at newsstand May 14, 2003: A Whiff of Camelot as ‘West Wing’ Ends an Era – New York Times,  May 14, 2003 Song title from the June Carter Cash album “Press On“: “Gatsby’s Restaurant” From The Great Gatsby, Chapter Four: “Highballs?” asked the head waiter. “This is a nice restaurant here,” said Mr. Wolfsheim, looking at the Presbyterian nymphs on the ceiling. Presbyterian Nymph: Mimi Beardsley, JFK playmate, in the news on May 15, 2003  On JFK’s plane trips: “Whenever the President traveled, members of the press staff traveled as well. You always have a press secretary and a couple of girls traveling….  Mimi, who obviously couldn’t perform  any function at all, made all the trips!” Apparently there was some function… “Don’t forget the coffee!” – Punchline from the film   “Good Will Hunting.”

  Part II:

  Today’s birthday:
  Joel Grey

  

  Grey in “Conundrum,”
  the final episode of Dallas

  Related material:

  Log24 on March 20, 2006–

  

  – and the 5 previous entries.

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