Thursday, June 22, 2017

The Real Question Posed by "Midnight in Paris"

I totally missed mentioning the real quandary posed by Woody Allen's "Midnight in Paris" from the previous post:

To which era would you be transported?

Dinner with Frank Zappa? Dropping tabs with Jimi Hendrix? Hanging out at the Lapin Agile with Albert and Pablo? How about the awkward afternoon when Pynchon was brought over to Brian Wilson's while the Beach Boy worked and Pynchon sat mostly silently for a few hours?

Maybe you'd like to go to the bar after work with Ted, Ray, and Ray. The three worked together during WWII to make how-to movies for the GIs: Ted Geisel, Ray Harryhausen, and Ray Bradbury. That would ave been a helluva talk, seeing as how we all know Ted Geisel by his pen name, Dr. Seuss.

Dr. Seuss, Ray Harryhausen, and Ray Bradbury worked together with a famous composer (whose name I forgot), and that would have been unique...

But does that make for a Golden Age that I'd want to live in? Or one that I pine for?

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