O.J. Simpson has died; legendary footbll star, cum celebrity Simpson, was acquitted of murdering his ex-wife and a young man, ( possibly her lover). His murder trial was the trial of the 20th Century, above the Nuremberg Trials or the Leopold/Loeb Trial.
When this Blogger was growing up, men and women lived lives of quiet desperation, leading to many suicides.
Quiet suicides, such as sticking one's head in an oven, with the gas on.
In 2024, men and women live lives of noisy desperation, leading to unsuccessful suicides, or successful murders, mainly femicides. Alas, this Blogger prefers the era of quiet desperation.
The Simpson Saga was the bridge between the lingering Eisenhower Era of quiet desperation, and the modern, noisy NETFLIX desperation, with many failed suicides and a lot of murders of former lovers, mainly women..
This Blogger's ancient mother, had survived World War I, the Great Influenza, the Roaring Twenties, the Great Depression, World War II, the Korean War and the Vietnam War. When she heard that the ex-wife, the mother of O.J. Simpson's children, had had breast augmentations paid for by Simpson; she stated the following: " A women should never let a man pay for her body parts; if a man pays for a new fender, he will think he owns the whole car, forever."
At the time of the Simpson Saga, this Blogger was writing a series of one act plays on the Gender Wars in America, VENICE BEACH SKETCHES.
On the night of the Simpson acquittal, he finished THE BASEBALL MAN, which included his opinion of OJ Simpson.
The following is from THE BASEBALL MAN-
"KEN-
Let’s try this another way, have you ever read the FOX by DH Lawrence, this real man meets these two lesbians in the woods and he falls for the hot one and she leaves with him.
SASHA-
Oh gimme a break, that was written a hundred years ago. PAUSE
Oh my God, you want to come a courting; this is precious.
KEN-
I’m successful. You are feisty… funny…. I like you.
SASHA-
And I am a beauty pageant winner....tell me Kenny, am I the type of girl you would marry? Have you ever been married?
KEN-
No, could not afford it....law school is expensive, and the only girls who will marry you and send you through law school are dogs. If I had married one of them, I would have had to divorce them after I graduated. So I paid for it, got my degree and paid off my student loans five months ago, I am ready to get married now.
SASHA-
ME?.... Kenny, you are an antediluvian pig of the first order.
KEN-
You have had pigs before.
SASHA-
Just last year I dated one of you and he treated me badly, which I admit surprised me...he was Mexican for God’s sake, I was doing him a favor by letting him do me...he slapped me.
KEN bursts out laughing.
KEN -
You modern women amaze me, the more you conquer the world, the less you understand how men really think.
SASHA-
You know?
KEN-
Of course...I read this book by this woman... by or about Louise Brooks, I can’t remember which...any way she was all over Hollywood doing both men and women. …...anyway she was stupid enough not to sleep with the right people, successful men, so they broke her career and she wound up playing opposite John Wayne in B Westerns. Which is a good lesson for you and your career.
When she was a big star, she was making a film in Palm Springs, and on the set was a famous stuntman, Harvey Perrin....he was there with his fiancée, and their entourage. One day Louise was poolside, she spotted him doing wondrous dives off the high board. Louise liked his hard toned body.
…. So as Harvey was walking by her, Louise stopped him and told him, coyly, that she was in Bungalow B, and that at 2AM, on a hot desert night, her window would be open. So at 2AM, hot body Mr. Perrin went down to Bungalow B, slipped through that open window and banged the hell out of Ms. Brooks. The next day, the whole cast and crew are at breakfast, Louise arrives early, gets her food and sits down with her script, with a look of total satisfaction on her face...like you this morning. Mr. Perrin walks into the cafeteria, with the entourage, including the fiancee, and begins to walk pass her. Louise stops him, and says, coyly, “hot Night last night” In reply, Harvey said, so that all could hear, “ This is the slut I slept with last night.
SASHA-
That just confirms it; you are pigs.
KEN-
Thirty years later, the Brits resurrect Louise as an icon and they give her films a retrospective at a Los Angeles museum, and one cool curator with a sense of humor invites Harvey Perrin. Harvey shows.
….Louise spots him across the room and traps him; Harvey she asks, “Do you think I am a bimbo?” Harvey replies, “No, you are a great talent”. Louise asks, “Harvey, am I a truly a slut?” Harvey answer, “Oh no Miss Brooks,you are a great star.” So then Louise asks, “ Then why did you humiliate me?”
SASHA-
Cause that is what men do.
KEN-
No, do you want to hear his answer or not?
SASHA-
And in his reply is the key to knowing the wisdom of the inner man?
KEN-
You are so clever.
SASHA-
What was his reply?
KEN-
STARS SHOULD NOT SLEEP WITH STUNTMEN!
SASHA-
A very Ken answer, stars should only sleep with successful men.
KEN -
Absolutely, and even though he was the stuntman sleeping with the star and benefiting because of Louise’s egalitarian whim ..he knew, as a real man, she had to be punished for sleeping beneath her station.
SASHA-
So, in Ken’s world, even though the Mexican lover was banging me, and enjoying it, I had to be punished because he believed I had no right to give my body to him.
KEN-
You are a quick learner.
SASHA-
This is insanity.
KEN-
We are men...the military is not an accidental institution; it is the top example of masculine inner thinking. We all think in pecking orders, we know instantly which women belong to us, which belong to greater men, and which belong to lesser men. Every man in the world is prepared to lose his wife, his mistress, his lover to Sean Connery for every man in the world knows that Sean Connery is a greater man than he and deserves all the women he wants. No man in the world is prepared to lose his wife to some young punk, for we all think we are better men than that. So if you left me for Sean, I would drive you to the airport...if you left me for Leo I would kill you, Nicole Brown Simpson.
SASHA-
Nicole Brown Simpson?
KEN -
As long as O.J. was seeing her giving head to men who owned restaurants, he was cool. But when he figured she was doing a waiter, she was dead meat.
SASHA-
So, the whole purpose of masculine thought processes is to rate and control women’s bodies.
KEN-
Oh yeah, you are smart....from the cannibal in Pago Pago to the priest in the Vatican to your Mexican lover, the whole purpose of civilization is who CONTROLS the prize women, and who doesn’t."....THE BASEBALL MAN by Gerry Maxey. copyrighted
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