June 4, 2006
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Death on Gypsy Day
Jeremy Pearce in this morning’s New York Times:
“Dr. Fritz Klein, a psychiatrist and sex researcher who studied
bisexuals and their relationships and later helped start a foundation
for promoting bisexual culture, died on May 24 at his home in San
Diego. He was 73. The cause was a heart attack, said his companion, Tom Reise.”
(Click to see the larger original,
a photo by Michael Trezzi)
“The WasteLand
,”
a 1922 poem by T. S. Eliot:
The sea was calm, your heart
would have responded420 Gaily, when invited, beating obedient To controlling hands I
sat upon the shoreFishing, with the arid plain behind me Shall I at least set my lands in order? 425 Eliot’s note on line 424: “V. Weston, From Ritual to Romance;
chapter on the Fisher King.”
a 1991 film by Terry Gilliam:
“Did you lose your mind
all of a sudden,
or was it a slow,
gradual process?”“Well, I’m a singer by trade.
Summer stock, nightclub revues,
that sort of thing.
And God, I absolutely lived for it.
I can do Gypsy, every part.
I can do it backwards.Then one night, in the
middle of singing ‘Funny’…
…suddenly it hit me.What does all this mean?
I mean, that,
plus the fact
that I’d watched all my friends die.”“[Screenwriter Richard] LaGravenese, speaking of the experience of making this special film,
says: ‘At times it appeared that for some people working on the movie,
individual journeys were being made towards their own particular Grails.
This was certainly true for me. I hear it is common; that a movie you’re
working on can begin to reflect the life you’re having around it.’”– Dreams: The Fisher King,
edited by Phil Stubbs
