I have collected a number of questions on AK, both recent and past, that seem to be evasive when I try to break them down logically.
I'm hoping for everyone's input on
this, to help me figure out the enigma that is Mister Andy.
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1. This recent post I have about Mister Andy paying homage to Mister Lenny. The book is "Poems and Stories". Pgs. 72-3, Lines
9-13. For more info, see the
lower post.
Is "ecurB" a reference to Mister Lenney?
2. Why, exactly, did Mister Andy lie about his age...and then stop, without delivering a "punch"? Was this or was this not a "bit"?
Was it a "test" to see if
andyone was paying attention?
3. Did the "OK? OK!" bit come from vaudeville?
4. Does the name "Maria Margulies" mean andything to andybody here? (That's one from way back!)
5. Everyone who has seen the experimental bit from "Evening at the Improv" entitled "Eating Ice Cream"...I'd like your
impressions. (I really liked it - rather
John Cage in its style, if you ask me.)
6. "Poems and Stories" again. Are these poems and short works autobiographical, or semi-autobiographical? Or simply fiction?
What is this underlying
anger/frustration in so many of the poems? Did it fade with the TM training? Did he simply mature out of it? Did it become Tony
Clifton and Mr. Hollywood?
7. I don't know who this Tom Cottle guy is (who gives bad interview on "Up Close"), but I'm thinking on what he said. "I don't
want to harp on the fact that
you're ~weird~ or anything, but..." and then he goes on to ask AK if he's ever tried to "get help" for "being weird". AK
responded that if he got help at being
more normal, he didn't think he would be doing all of the good things that he was doing; he would be just like everybody else.
Opinions on this? Better to be
"cured" and "normal", or better to be "yourself" and "weird"?
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There's no end to the discussion of AK. The "chicken cluck opera" from Disney's "Orphan's Benefit" ~AS~ Elvis is priceless!!!
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PART TWO:
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An "Andy's Famliy" question:
What, exactly, is the deal with the relationship between Mister Andy and his father?
I read the bios, of course, and saw the video clips from later in Mister Andy's life, and also posthumous interviews with Stanley
Kaufman, and they appear to have a
good relationship. Andy even publicly says that he loves his father, on the Letterman show.
But in "Poems and Stories", there is the recurring theme of paternal oppression, and I have heard Lynne make mention of the
fact that Stanley didn't really
approve of or understand the things that young Andy did.
Apparrently, Mister Andy was able to forgive his father for the oppression...?
And it would seem that, in spite of it all, Stanley loves his son veddy much; he still hasn't forgiven Ebersol for the lies...
Can someone "in the know" straighten this enigmatic relationship out for me?