Comments on: LOST DIARY

By: Anna

Anna — Mon, 04 May 2009 14:15:39 +0000

I goggled Larry and figured he was the Mash writer which was based on the Korean Conflict but was actually loosely based on the Vietnam War. My Uncle Barney was in the Korean Conflict but he died not to long ago…..and Dolores’s brother was a sniper, but he’s brain damaged now but not from the war, freak accident or ……

By: California Yanqui

California Yanqui — Mon, 04 May 2009 01:30:01 +0000

Thanks Anna, Larry Gelbart is a prolific writer he wrote for the series M.A.S.H. I met him and John Ritter when I worked camera for a pilot on comedy.

“The Art of Comedy”

I spelt his name wrong.
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0312205/bio

By: Anna

Anna — Mon, 04 May 2009 00:58:58 +0000

I’ve been working on a huge horse, indian whatever painting for twenty some years, just keep adding to it. What’s weird is that the horse looks like Diamond and another painting, the little girl looks like my young friend Lyndsey, her mother told me. It was a black and white study of a Renoir but she does look like Lyndsey.

Cali, Anyway put the story on the back burner on low and find people who were there, usually the truth is worse than the imagination. I don’t know Larry but that’s what I do.

By: Roberta

Roberta — Sun, 03 May 2009 23:30:24 +0000

There’s a red house over yonder, that’s where my baby stays. – Jimi

Ah, the nostalga of old photos. I was in my high school yearbook a couple times last week. It reminded me to enjoy each day.

You look like a thoughtful bohemian poet in this photo. Your soundtrack for the photo – I thought of – “The horror, the horror” from Apocolypse Now. Finish the opera!!! We want to hear it

By: The Barn

The Barn — Sun, 03 May 2009 16:32:51 +0000

That photo was burned in my mind as well, Anna. As was the monk who set himself on fire in protest of that awful conflict. War is never pretty, so I leave this on the positive note remembering the lyrics of John Lennon’s “Imagine”.
Be well,

By: Anna

Anna — Sun, 03 May 2009 14:58:56 +0000

Phan Thị Kim Phúc (born 1963) is a Vietnamese-Canadian who is the subject of a famous photo from the Vietnam War. The photo shows her at about age nine running naked on the street after being severely burned on her back by a South Vietnamese napalm attack. The photo was taken by AP photographer Nick Út.

I saw that photo when I was sixteen. Napalm was used to destroy the vegetation. Anyway when i heard the word napalm, I heard the little girl screaming as the napalm burned her skin. She must have torned off her clothes and was running, or the napalm ate away part of her clothes………

By: Dugsy

Dugsy — Sun, 03 May 2009 01:42:25 +0000

Cali, if you are passionate about your story, don’t move on, write on, man! I never heard of such a thing. Percolate, rather than formulate, before its too late. What do you love about your story? and write on! and don’t look back.

By: California Yanqui

California Yanqui — Sun, 03 May 2009 01:11:03 +0000

“Also, it was the first and only time I was sporting a 6 pack.”

What? I don’t see any beer.

And since Barn brought up Apocolyps Now you can’t leave out Full Metal Jacket for that exquiste taste of boot camp and the surreal mickey mouse soung as they march into the burn out city just before they incounter the sniper.

But alas back to CRC and the Pian he is feeling .. he needs to finish his opera.. I have one screen play that I have been trying to formulate since I left boot camp in 78. I ask Larry Gelbert once what to do if your stuck on a thought and tring to write a screen play and he told me to move on.

Something to that effect, but I keep trying to formulate the story. At least I’m persistant.

Yanqui

By: The Barn

The Barn — Sat, 02 May 2009 20:35:00 +0000

I saw it on my last week of basic training in the Army. I guess the brass thought it would motivate us to want to go and fight the Irainians. That was back during the Irainian Hostage Crisis.
My favorite line in that film was Robert Duval…
“I love the smell of napalm in the morning. It smells like….Victory!”
Be well,

By: Anna

Anna — Sat, 02 May 2009 19:08:38 +0000

Apocalypse Now is an American 1979 epic war film set during the Vietnam War. It tells the tale of two Army Special Forces officers, one, Captain Benjamin L. Willard (Martin Sheen) who is sent into the jungle to assassinate, another, Colonel Walter E. Kurtz (Marlon Brando).

I think CRC would be the young Captain Willard more than the Colonel. Anyway I saw that movie when it first came out and all I remember was it being a dark jungle, it went very fast for me, the movie.