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I've always been curious who I would have-been and in what scenes. Probably be-seeing myself and wishing I was or was not. There I am. I'll be darn. What was that ? I didn't want to be a nobody, a just another-place in the crowd. Something I had to learn to-like. Need a certain enthusiasm. This is for a good-reason. Be a clown. "Get off your high-horse." "Where do you think you are ?" Get with the program. They made you do-it in the army. But they couldn't make you believe it. So would I become an actor of the silver-dream ?
There were two-events that occurred on the Via Veneto in Rome. I saw Michael Rennie of the film, "The Day the Earth Stood Still"; and witnessed the attempted, not a David-Niven white-tie cat - burglary. There was Rennie-tall, half a very short-block away; stood-out as the street was absent much activity, lighter-lit by dim-shaded street-lights in probably the late November. In the other direction, not sure the same night, a short-man in casual attire and sneakers, tried to blow a hole in a jewellery store display window, with some sort of soft-plastic bomb he stuck onto the display glass, and darted behind a car.
Again I could have talked to him. Just say, "I really liked : The Day the Earth Stood Still". But then I thought, maybe he wasn't proud of it. Maybe it was not a first-rate film, being of the idiot-science fiction gender. What if he poo-poos my homage ? He wouldn't have to say it. It would be recognizable in his demeanor. Who would I be talking to here, an actor or a philosopher ?
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