Dark Ocean Hotel

[Terrance]

I'm hearing  

Divorce Me Darling
Music, Lyrics & Book by Sandy Wilson
Opened December 9,1964 at the Player's Theater, London

Hector gets the dance. 

This ain't Romeo and Juliet. 


This balcony episode is pure parody. 

The Balcony (1963)
Fascinating version of Jean Genet's psycho-erotic play about
an accommodating brothel where visitors act out elaborate
fantasies of power and desire. Shelley Winters is the madam,
with Peter Falk as her police chief lover and Leonard Nimoy as
his political opposite, the leader of a local revolution. 

Hawaii 5-0 is in there. 



For most people, the name “James MacArthur” immediately invokes a jumble
of images: a plane streaking across the sky; the swinging hips of a
young girl dancing a hula; the flashing light of a police car, speeding
through the night; the Aloha Tower; Punchbowl Cemetery, and, of course,
Jack Lord posed majestically on a hotel balcony. They begin to hum the
Hawaii Five-0 theme, which they had long thought forgotten but which had
merely been lying dormant amongst old memories, and once again, they can
hear Jack Lord snap, "Book ‘em Danno." 

How many 5-0 balcony episodes were there? 
Arguments, suicides, murders, bookings ... 

The Grand resort hotel of Hawaii Five-O fame, the opening shot of the
Hawaii Five-O television series, showing star Jack Lord surveying
Waikiki from his penthouse balcony is not an X or V, but who the hell
would want a hotel room anyplace in paradise that doesn't come with a
view of the ocean? 

Well, suburbanization, you know, we can give you a room with a lovely
view of the golf course or the convention center. Hey, the pool? It's
wet. Blue. Who built the college of the surf and why? 


Work on it. 

Who built SUNY Buffalo and why did they build it the way they did? Well,
it was a Rockefeller project and coming as it did after Kent State
...well we all know the story. 

So a room with a cop's view? 


Why is that from "any distance an observer would have noticed, here and
there upon the great bent facade, folks on their lanais out taking the
breezes, eating room service banquets, smoking the local cannabis,
fucking in semipublic." 

Who is holding the camera? 

I asked about Hector's being uip on the table and what was keepin him up
there. Why the Tibetan chants were freaking him out. 

It's an opera. 

This is when the P-man does his best work, mixing in paint and film and
opera and everything he can pull down off the NY public Library shelf. 




Mary Krimmel wrote:
> 
> At 09:33 PM 9/10/03 +0100, you {Mike Weaver] wrote:
> 
> [Dark Ocean Hotel has 2048 rooms.]
> 
> >Which would give 1024 rooms per plane which is the number of bytes in a
> >kilobyte being 2 to the power of 10.
> >
> >To paraphrase Terrance - why?
> 
> Why not? But 1024 rooms pile nicely into a rectangular wing 2 to the power
> of n stories high with 2 to the power of (10-n) rooms per story. For
> instance, the wing could be 16 stories high with 64 rooms on each story, or
> 32 stories with 32 rooms on each story, etc.
> 
> Zoyd's room, though below the top floor, is hundreds of feet above sea
> level, and the ground floor of the hotel is unlikely to be very far above
> sea level. (Or is it? I'm not familiar with hotels on Waikiki Beach, but
> the usual picture seems to be of a wide but very flat expanse of sand.)
> 
> Still, sound travels about 1000 feet a second, so even if the hotel is 64
> stories high, Zoyd should have heard the clank of the beer can sooner than
> seconds after the impact on the surfboard directly below.
> 
> So Pynchon, or Zoyd, didn't practice enough on judging seconds in the Boy
> Scout days - which surely Zoyd didn't experience. Could the hotel even be
> 128 stories high?
> 
> Mary Krimmel