PAUL MCGREGOR'S HAIR SALON IN NEW YORK

NOT FAR FROM THE NEGRO ENSEMBLE COMPANY ON ST. MARKS PLACE, WHERE PAUL, THE ALLEGED OWNER, SAID TO ME, "YOU KNOW I DO JANE FONDA'S HAIR..." I JUST LISTENED, AND HE WOULD WASH, CUT MY HAIR AS I DIRECTED HIM HOW I WANTED IT, SHAGGY AT THE ENDS, AND CLOSE TO MY HEAD, (THE WAY FONDA HAD WORN HERS IN "KLUTE") AND HE'D BLOW DRY MY HAIR AND COMPLAIN, "WHAT KIND OF HAIR DO YOU HAVE? I THINK I'D KILL MYSELF IF I HAD HAIR LIKE YOURS". HE WASN'T USING THE PROPER TEMPERATURE WITH THE BLOW DRY, SO WHEN I ARRIVED HOME, I WOULD CORRECT HIS ERROR, AND I STOPPED GOING TO HIM AFTER HIS DEGRADING REMARK, THINKING HIM A SIMPLETON AT THE TIME. SO EVEN WAY BACK THEN,IN THE 60'S, AFTER I HAD LEFT MY EX HUSBAND, TAKING NO ALIMONEY AND STRIKING OUT ON MY OWN THE INSIPIDS WERE BUSY PLOTTING AGAINST ME... OF COURSE I PAID MR MCGREGOR AND ALSO TIPPED HIM, AFTER ALL I WAS WORKING AND STUDYING MY ACTING CRAFT,AT HB STUDIOS AND LATER THE ADVANCED WORK SHOP UNDER THE DIRECTION OF LLOYD RICHARDS AND YES, PETER DANES WAS PAYING ABOUT A HUNDRED EIGHTY EIGHT DOLLARS A MONTH FOR MY STUDIO APARTMENT AT 33O THIRD AVE. APT 19K, NEW YORK, 10010 I BELIEVE, WITH THE INCREDIBLE VIEW OF THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING, THAT I COULD SEEMINGLY REACH OUT AND TOUCH AT NIGHT, THAT'S HOW GREAT IT WAS... AND IT WAS PETER WHO GOT UP FROM THE TABLE AT THE ITALIAN RESTAURANT ON THIRD AVENUE, WHERE I WAS ENJOYING MY USUAL CEASER'S SALAD, AND SAT DOWN AT THE TABLE WHERE FRANK SINATARA WAS SITTING, HIS BACK TO ME AT THE TIME. HE AND PETER WERE CONVERSING, AND AT ONE POINT I SAW FRANK SINATARA TURN AROUND AND GIVE ME A LOOK, AND HIS LOOK SAID, "YOU'RE NOTHING" AND HE TURNED BACK AROUND IN HIS CHAIR. I REMEMBERED THAT DAY WELL, AS I THOUGHT TO MYSELF, WHO DOES HE THINK HE IS? AND I ALWAYS PAID AS I WENT, ALWAYS TIPPING, NOT TAKING ANYTHING IN TRADE, AS I HEARD RICHARD ROUNDTREE JOKINGLY SAY (AT LEAST I THOUGHT HE WAS JOKING AT THE TIME)WHEN WE WERE PERFORMING IN "SHAFT'S BIG SCORE". WAS IT STERLING SILIPHANT THE ALLEGED AUTHOR OF THE ALLEGED BOOK BASED ON THE ORIGINAL SHAFT FILM? AND HOW INTERESTING THAT VICTOR ARNOLD, AFTER I'D BEEN FIRED FOR NO LEGITIMATE REASON FROM ABC'S THE BEST OF EVERYTHING, SHOT LIVE, SUPPOSEDLY, THAT VICTOR ARNOLD WOULD BE CAST AS AN ITALIAN GANSTER WORKING FOR THE MOB THOUGH HE WAS AN ALLEGED JEW. REMEMBER WHO WAS IN CONTROL OF ALL HAIR PRODUCTS, THE MAN MADE RELIGIOUS MOB AND THEIR DEMENTED POSERS. AND INTERESTING HOW THESE NO HEART, NO MIND "SHELLS" NOW WANTED TO LAY CLAIM TO EVERYTHING THAT I HAD WORKED LONG, HARD AND DILLIGENTLY FOR, NO MATTER WHO AND WHAT THEY ARE, YOU WILL BE INDICTED WITH NO MORE PARDONS COMING FROM UNELECTED OFFICIALS FROM THE TOP ON DOWN. AS RONNIE REAGAN ANOTHER JUMP SHIPPER GOING FROM DEMS, TO REPS, AS HARRY REED, AND WEAKENING THE IMMIGRATION LAWS ALLOWING EVERYONE TO ENTER THE COUNTRY IN ORDER FOR HIM TO BE RELECTED PERHAPS? RUMOR HAD IT THAT RR HAD INDICTED QUITE A FEW AS PRESIDENT OF SCREEN ACTORS GUILD,ELECTED TWICE, ONE A TALENTED DIRECTOR FROM GREECE I BELIEVE, A WONDERFUL BLACK/WHITE FILM, ABOUT AN IMMIGRANT BOY WHO SO DESPERATELY WANTED TO GET TO AMERICA THAT HE STARTS TO WALK FROM THE COUNTRY HE WAS BORN, GREECE. A LOVELY AND IMPORTANT FILM WHICH I STUDIED AT THE AMERICAN FILM INSTITITUE IN 1975 AS WE STUDIED OTHER CLASSICS, "TWELVE NOON" "STAGECOACH" ETC. ALL BLACK AND WHITE, "TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD" ANOTHER GREAT CLASSIC... AND THIS AND MORE PROVES THAT WE NEED TO ERADICATE THE RACISM AND MISOGNY RUNNING RAMPANT, BASED ON THE BROKEN, NEVER TO BE REPAIRED AGAIN THE PARADIGM OF THE PAST THAT WE NO LONGER DESIRE OR NEED. THANK YOU AND HAVE A SPENDIDLY EXUBERANT DAY, YOU DESERVE IT. (C)COPYRIGHTED BY GWENDOLYN L MITCHELL ON TUESDAY, APRIL 14TH, 2015 AT 10:28AM, LA,CA 90046, REVISED 10:39AM, 10:45AM