tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post7872773398069780402..comments2024-01-28T03:56:39.351-08:00Comments on TOM CLARK: Frank O'Hara: To the Film Industry in CrisisUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-42510679724214037272011-03-03T05:30:25.281-08:002011-03-03T05:30:25.281-08:00Sound Wizard Walter Murch has helpfully supplied t...Sound Wizard Walter Murch has helpfully supplied this <a href="http://ubu.wfmu.org/sound/dial_a_poem_poets/corrupt/Totally-Corrupt_20_ohara.mp3" rel="nofollow">direct link to F. O'H. reading the poem</a>.<br /><br />Many thanks, Walter!TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-63172995556210086572011-02-28T07:11:56.480-08:002011-02-28T07:11:56.480-08:00Yes, Julia, the context counts.Yes, Julia, the context counts.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-80881170450336975382011-02-28T04:31:13.407-08:002011-02-28T04:31:13.407-08:00I retract. Now that I saw the scene, I find that t...I retract. Now that I saw the scene, I find that the actress has a different strength and elegance that were absent from the stereotype of the poster (Son of the Sheik).Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16419101761966668410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-77411886696627917722011-02-27T11:56:17.900-08:002011-02-27T11:56:17.900-08:00Tom: YOU sir, are the one restoring essential mem...Tom: YOU sir, are the one restoring essential memories every day for us all.<br /><br />(Funny, google seems to have lost all memory of me and my doowman ID)kenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12448791356455016794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-24409033201907898732011-02-27T11:22:53.196-08:002011-02-27T11:22:53.196-08:00Frank would have regarded that comment as worth mo...<a href="http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/6/69/Frank_OHara_1965_by_Mario_Schifano.jpg" rel="nofollow">Frank</a> would have regarded that comment as worth more than any statuette, I think, Walter.<br /><br /><br />Kent, you've brought back memories.<br /><br />Frank went from Harvard to Ann Arbor, where he took an MA and won a Hopwood prize for poetry in 1961.<br /><br />A few years later I did something similar.<br /><br />A few years after that (1968), Angelica and I went with two poet friends, Ron Padgett and Frank's great admirer Ted Berrigan, to Ann Arbor to do some readings. It was this time of year, terribly cold, everything under hard ice and snow, and Ted was never much into polar exploring; but nonetheless he insisted on being taken to inspect (from out in the snowy sidewalk) the modest rooming house where Frank had written those Hopwood poems.<br /><br />(To him that crumby rooming house might as well have been the Sistine Chapel.)TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-46271383595725861672011-02-27T10:39:14.094-08:002011-02-27T10:39:14.094-08:00Tom: On this cinematic new year's eve of awar...Tom: On this cinematic new year's eve of award-giving (btw, you've thrown a great party so far) let us not forget The Gold Diggers of 1933 -- based on a musical by one Avery Hopwood, whose naming rights literary award was bestowed upon two ann arbor legends, Frank O'Hara and Tom Clark. Hooray for Hoppywood!kenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12448791356455016794noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-31505580852927342342011-02-27T09:29:42.761-08:002011-02-27T09:29:42.761-08:00Beautiful deep thrilling masterfully concocted wor...Beautiful deep thrilling masterfully concocted words. And images. But mainly the words. Thank you for this.<br /><br />Walter M.Walter Murchhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01764588580731709555noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-60944566409627807902011-02-27T07:46:30.815-08:002011-02-27T07:46:30.815-08:00In the Son of the Sheik (1926) Valentino plays bot...In the Son of the Sheik (1926) Valentino plays both the older Sheik and his hot-blooded son Ahmed. After Ahmed is captured and tortured by a gang of bandits, he falls victim to a tragic misunderstanding, supposing Yasmin, the bandit chief's daughter, to have been responsible for his sufferings. Having escaped, he takes her off to his tent and...<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7OAlbfZRCvY" rel="nofollow">you guessed it</a>.<br /><br />The poster is based on this scene. In it, Ahmed is baring his breast to show the terrified Yasmin the mutilation inflicted by the bandit gang.<br /><br />(Yes, Artur, that outfit might have been smuggled into Mick Jagger's wardrobe closet without anyone batting an eye.)<br /><br />Later, however, the older Sheik's harsh words cause the Son to bethink himself; he and the now-vindicated Yasmin fall in love & c.<br /><br />Valentino was 31 at the time, a sort of androgynous sexual icon invented by Hollywood for its own uses.<br /><br />A few months after making this film he collapsed and died of peritonitis.TChttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05915822857461178942noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-60499046590868286472011-02-26T16:21:03.113-08:002011-02-26T16:21:03.113-08:00I stayed mesmerized by the face of the blond woman...I stayed mesmerized by the face of the blond woman with Valentino. Stupid face and gesture! Why the ideal of woman of that time (30's?) was so annoying?. Sorry, my comment it's completely off topic.Juliahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16419101761966668410noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-81876564629389658602011-02-26T15:12:12.520-08:002011-02-26T15:12:12.520-08:00One of my favorite poems of all time - and i LOVE ...One of my favorite poems of all time - and i LOVE the images you paired it with, none of which I'd ever seen before. <br /><br />The best.Christopher Volpehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04169170001831304788noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-15200567767596373622011-02-26T14:40:59.120-08:002011-02-26T14:40:59.120-08:00Great to read this and see these images. It's...Great to read this and see these images. It's corny to say, but those were the days, or so it seems. I suppose one could rewrite this including some of today's stars but it wouldn't be the same.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4445844569294316288.post-36068428308719773842011-02-26T14:29:17.039-08:002011-02-26T14:29:17.039-08:00Amazing outfit Valentino's got on in that next...Amazing outfit Valentino's got on in that next-to-last poster! It's better than anything from the '60s. I wonder how different the movies would have been without the Hays code.<br /><br />Artur.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com