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Louise Brooks' One Night Stand Portended The End of the American Male as a Heroic Figure, THE BASEBALL MAN

1920s actor, Louise Brooks was the sexiest, savviest, smartest actress of her age. She once had a one night stand, with a famous stunt man. The morning after, he humiliated her in public. Years later, they met at a public event; being an inquisitive woman, she asked him why he had humiliated her. His response was a portent of the Taliban existence women are about to endure, globally. His Taliban answer foretold the decline, the dangerous decline of the American male as either a bona fide hero, or someone who effectively role played a hero. It was the basis of her lover's answer, on which this Blogger anchored his one act play, THE BASEBALL MAN.   In Henry Jaglom's film, SOMEONE TO LOVE, Orson Welles said that the world, would experience one more world wide slave rebellion, the rebellion of women. Western Civilization has already experienced that rebellion; the end result of said rebellion has been an unleashing of hatred against women unseen before in modern times. The male bac

Gerry Maxey's VENICE FIRST LOVE

The VENICE FIRST LOVE episode of VENICE BEACH SKETCHES. VENICE FIRST LOVE , a variant on Turgenev’s short story, is about  a shy college student, who  stalks the dazzling coed of his dreams, only to discover, to his dismay, that he is not that great a stalker after all. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IsxeY4Xsx4M&feature=youtu.be VENICE BEACH SKETCHES explores the decline of the American male as a heroic figure as a result of the gender wars in contemporary California. Each episode is a variant of a short story or play from Turgenev, Coward and Sartre .

Gerry Maxey's VENICE REMATCH

MICHAEL SANFORD and LISA MARIS star in the VENICE REMATCH episode of VENICE BEACH SKETCHES. VENICE REMATCH is a variant on Noel Coward’s BRIEF ENCOUNTER; a rapidly failing screenwriter accidentally meets his highly successful ex-wife just as he is about to marry, MISS BUTTERMILK AEROBICS. Old hopes, pains, passions and disappointments reappear to cry havoc once again. VENICE REMATCH is an episode of VENICE BEACH SKETCHES- A TOUCH OF CHEKHOV in Contemporary Venice, California. Synopsis: Over five episodes, VENICE BEACH SKETCHES explores the decline of the American male as a heroic figure as a result of the gender wars in contemporary California. Each episode is a variant of a short story or play from Turgenev, Coward and Sartre. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tMm0NaB_E_w