Thursday, January 5, 2017

Twin Wolfe

Believe it or not, this morning... around 4 am (couldn't sleep... that's it, no more ginko biloba for me!!) I decided to watch a New Release on Netflix,  the film, Genius-- re author Tom Wolfe... hmmm, his name Wolfe is like Foote in my previous post-- remove the "e" and you get a word.  As per usual I had to investigate, this is the info on cast/crew and real life characters on the films wiki page:

  • Michael Grandage (born 2 May 1962) Director
  • John David Logan (born September 24, 1961) screen writer
  • Andrew Scott Berg (born December 4, 1949) author

  • Max Perkins (20 September 1884 – 17 June 1947)
  • Tom Wolfe  (October 3, 1900 – September 15, 1938)
  • Aline (December 22, 1880 – September 7, 1955) 
  • Ernest  (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) 
  • Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald (September 24, 1896 – December 21, 1940)

  • Zelda  (July 24, 1900 – March 10, 1948)
So those were the main actors... and the cluster is more than obvious.  And do note the "2 May/Toumai"-- inner twin signature at the very top.  And below is another May 2... W.J. Cash.
There were way too many on the IMDb page, so I investigated only 3:

  • Miquel Brown was born on February 8, 1945 
  • Laura Leggett Linney was born on February 5, 196
  • Corey Johnson was born on May 17, 1961  
Info on other persons mentioned on the films... or Tom Wolfe's wiki page with 4 having  "September" birth or death:
  • William Cuthbert Faulkner (September 25, 1897 – July 6, 1962) 
  • Carl Clinton Van Doren (September 10, 1885 – July 18, 1950) 
  • Robert Penn Warren (April 24, 1905 – September 15, 1989)
  • John Donald Wade (September 28, 1892 – October 9, 1963) 
So we now have a "September 10(x2), 15(x2), 20, 25/Increments of 5 Date Sequence" pattern-cluster.     The name that strikes me as most meaningful is Robert Penn Warren... think about it!!

Others: 
  • George Pierce Baker (April 4, 1866 – January 6, 1935)
  • Philip Milton Roth (born March 19, 1933)
  • Jack Kerouac (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969)
  • Ray Douglas Bradbury (August 22, 1920 – June 5, 2012) 
  • Maxim Lieber (October 15, 1897 – April 10, 1993)
  • Edward Campbell Aswell (October 9, 1900 – November 5, 1958
  • Bernard Augustine DeVoto (January 11, 1897 – November 13, 1955)
  • Johns Hopkins (May 19, 1795 – December 24, 1873) 
  • Walter Edward Dandy (April 6, 1886 – April 19, 1946)
  • Matthew Joseph Bruccoli (August 21, 1931 – June 4, 2008)
  • Stringfellow Barr (January 15, 1897 – February 3, 1982
  • Richard Aldington (8 July 1892 – 27 July 1962)
  • Harry Sinclair Lewis February 7, 1885 – January 10, 1951)
  • Clifton Paul "KipFadiman (May 15, 1904 – June 20, 1999) 
  • W.J. Cash  (May 2, 1900 – July 1, 1941)
  • Betty Smith, née Elisabeth Wehner (December 15, 1896 – January 17, 1972)
  • Earl Henry Hamner Jr. (July 10, 1923 – March 24, 2016) 
  • Hunter Stockton Thompson (July 18, 1937 – February 20, 2005)
  • Roy Alton Blount Jr. ( born October 4, 1941)
  • Donald Patrick "Pat" Conroy (October 26, 1945 – March 4, 2016) 

Note from his wiki page:
Despite his disagreements with Perkins and Scribner's, on his deathbed and shortly before lapsing into a coma Wolfe wrote a deeply moving letter to Perkins, whom he considered to be his closest friend.[24] He acknowledged that Perkins had helped to realize his work and had made his labors possible. In closing he wrote:
I shall always think of you and feel about you the way it was that Fourth of July day three years ago when you met me at the boat, and we went out on the cafe on the river and had a drink and later went on top of the tall building, and all the strangeness and the glory and the power of life and of the city was below.[25]
And of course, the 4th of July speaks volumes, note from the intro box at the top of this blog:
 On July 4th, 3 Of the first "5" US Presidents had died: Jefferson "5" hours before Adams, and Monroe "5" years later on the "55th" Independence Day.

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