"It Seems Like We Spend The Best Part Of Our Time Together Saying Goodbye"...

     I just finished watching one of the best movies ever. Actually the word "best" doesn't really do it justice. I saw it for the first time when I was a kid and it had as profound effect on me then as it did today. Up there with To Kill A Mockingbird and Breakfast At Tiffany's as three of my all time favorites. Elizabeth Taylor and Montgomery Clift are perfectly cast in the lead roles. 

     Ah, the pain and the pleasure of true romantic love--the hope and hopelessness of it all...

     There was a comment on YouTube that said," Liz Taylor is so beautiful it hurts." I couldn't have said it better myself-- and I'm not gay but Montgomery Clift... Every time I see him the song The Right Profile by The Clash pops into my head...



     The song is about Mongomery Clift ( A Place In The Sun, Red River, From Here To Eternity, The Misfits), his troubled life and struggles with pills and alcohol. The song references his 1956 car crash into a tree while driving home from a party at Elizabeth Taylor's house-- she saved his life then.
     After Clift's car accident, his face was mangled. He continued to make movies, but had to be filmed from "The Right Profile" to look good...

Say, where did I see this guy?
In Red River?
Or A Place In The Sun?
Maybe The Misfits?
Or From Here To Eternity?

Everybody say, is he all right?
And everybody say, whats he like?
Everybody say, he sure look funny.
Thats...Montgomery Clift, honey!

New york, new york, new york, 42nd street
Hustlers rustle and pimps pimp the beat
Monty clift is recognized at dawn
He aint got no shoes and his clothes are torn

I see a car smashed at night
Cut the applause and dim the light
Montys face is broken on a wheel
Is he alive? can he still feel?

Nembutol numbs it all
But I prefer alcohol

He said go out and get me my old movie stills
Go out and get me another roll of pills
There I go again shaking, but I aint got the chills

Arrrghhhgorra buh bhuh do arrrrgggghhhhnnnn!!!!