Klarinet Archive - Posting 000012.txt from 2000/11

From: Kenneth Wolman <kwolman@-----.com>
Subj: Re: [kl] Steve Allen
Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2000 07:50:53 -0500

At 07:01 PM 10/31/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>In the movie, the Benny Goodman story (which should have won the aware
>for the most awful movie of the century, in my opinion), Goodman was
>played by Steve Allen, who died today.

Movie aside (yes, it stank), Steve Allen--even though he got a bit puffed
up and stuffy in his old age--was one of the reigning geniuses of my youth,
an hysterically funny man who ranked second only to Ernie Kovacs as an
innovator and creative madman. Kovacs, tragically, died in what I believe
was a drunk driving episode in 1960 or '61: Allen went on being funny for
years, then donned the mantle of Sage, which did not suit him well at
all. But those early years...God, they are his immortality.

Ken, saddened
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"...perhaps we really complete those we love, fulfill their finally
unchanging essence, when they're gone from us, when we take into ourselves
their portions of them still available to us, to acknowledge them more
perfectly, more purely, and do homage to the fugitive, protean forms of
love of, and love from."--C.K. Williams, "Misgivings"

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