VL-IV 1: Christ on Parade/gratuitous aside

[kelber at mindspring.com]

He was actually out there from the late 40s to the early 70s - I just remember him from the 60s.

-----Original Message-----
>From: Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com>
>Sent: Dec 10, 2008 7:45 PM
>To: kelber at mindspring.com
>Subject: Re: VL-IV 1: Christ on Parade/gratuitous aside
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>V. was 50s, wasn't it?
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>On 12/10/08, kelber at mindspring.com <kelber at mindspring.com> wrote:
>> OK, since you've mentioned Moondoggie, that gives me a gratuitous opening to reference Moondog, a cultural fixture on the NYC streets in the '60s, someone who surely should have been referenced in V.  He stood silently on the street in mid-town Manhattan, dressed like a viking, selling his poetry.  Later he resumed his jazz musician career in Germany.  There's a brief glimpse of him in the opening documentary footage in the Dylan bio-pic, I'm Not There.
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>>  http://images.google.com/images?client=safari&rls=en-us&q=moondog&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&um=1&sa=X&oi=image_result_group&resnum=4&ct=title
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>>  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moondog
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>>  Laura
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>>  -----Original Message-----
>>  >From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
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>>  >
>>  >       "He's got a good idea, if only you'd listen, Pop."
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>>  >       "Pop this." Zoyd ate a Chee-to he'd been planning to throw.
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>>  >       Moondoggie, for example, in Gidget [1959], after all. ... "
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>>  >       In one of the first episodes, the producers sent Gidget's
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>>  >       boyfriend Moondoggie east to college with the convenient
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>>  >       understanding that both were free to date others while
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>>  >       separated, thus opening plots to a variety of complications
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>>  >       and guest stars.
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>>  >http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gidget
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