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COLUMN
NINETY-TWO, JUNE
1, 2003
(Copyright © 2003 The Blacklisted Journalist)
PART
FOUR OF MY MEMOIRS:
SADIE THE PSYCHIC
(Drawing
by Ed Galing)
WARNING! FOR ADULTS
ONLY! PERSONS NOT YET 18 YEARS OF AGE ARE NOT ALLOWED TO READ THIS STORY.
AUTHORS NOTE
[SADIE HATHAWAY AND
I HAVE HAD A LONG RELATIONSHIP.
I AM.HAPPY THAT SHE CHOSE ME TO WRITE
HER MEMOIRS FOR HER...
I HAVE ALWAYS LIKED SADIE'S SASSINESS
AND SPUNK AND, BESIDES, SHE IS A SEXY LADY, EVEN THOUGH SHE IS NOW SIXTY YEARS
OLD. (I AM PUSHING 85) AND SADIE DOES NOT MINCE HER WORDS, AS YOU CAN SEE WHEN
YOU READ HER MEMOIRS---WHICH SHE DICTATED TO ME OVER A FEW WEEKS.
I HAVE LEFT HER WORDS UNTOUCHED---EVEN
THE BAWDY ONES. FOR I DON’T REALLY WANT TO DISTURB HER PERSONALITY.
BENEATH IT ALL, YOU WILL FIND SADIE A
SYMPATHETIC AND HONEST LADY WHO JUST HAPPENS TO BE A PSYCHIC (SO SHE SAYS) AND
WHO WAS FORTUNATE ENOUGH TO MEET SOME REAL HOLLYWOOD PERSONALITIES OF HER
TIME.. THERE ISNT A BAD BONE IN HER BODY.
LONG LIVE SADIE! ---ED GALING, POET
LAUREATE OF HATBORO, PENNSYLVANIA]
by this time you probably think that all that little ole
sadie did was run around hollywood gettin laid here an there, with nuthin else
on her mind, but you would be wrong ... but you see, hollywood back then more
than forty years ago was still new and exciting. and while my uncle was taking
care of our big mansion of a house, and lettin me try to find myself, i was busy
tryin to find out where i really belonged... oh, i didnt really know what i
wanted to do with my life back then... sadie was all screwed up... i just didn't
wanta get married at twenty..i wanted to be somebody ... and just runnin around
hollywood with the young people like myself kinda got to my head... for a while
i took up dancin, and played in a coupla musicals, with people like george kelly,
george Montgomery, una merkel, pert kelton, dick powell, but always i was in the
background... the producers loved my legs...isaid they were long and slim for a
young girl, and they liked the way i shook my ass..they said i wasn't beautiful
like the rest of those movie stars, and would never make it as an actress but
that i was a pretty good hoofer... in those days we all hoofed around... even
little jimmie cagney, who later danced in yankee doodle dandy, was a wonderful
dancer...
believe
it or not, jimmie took a likin to me one day, right after he made a gangster
movie in which he tossed a grapefruit in mae murray’s face... i will never
forget that scene, when they sat at the breakfast table, and jimmie made an ugly
face, grabbed the half grapefruit and squashe it in mae's face...that is when
the diredtor hollared cut, it's a take...
jimmie
had heard that i was a psychic, and one day he grabbed a hold of me and said,
sadie, you gotta tell me... do you think i am ever gonna be a star in the
movies..
i
smiled at jimmie..you gotta be kiddin, i told him.. jimmie..you are a star right
now....
i
hate makin them damn gangster movies, he said to me. why can't i make one where
i am a nice guy? aw, jimmie, i said, everyone knows you are only actin... you
and edward g. robinson are the best damn bastards in the whole movie
industry.... then he broke out in a grin and said, sadie, you're a great gal,
and then he kissed me on the cheek, walked away, kicking his heels..
ah, those early movie days..with sadie right in the
middle of the whole thing ... una merkel was a cute little blonde girl, smaller
than me, and she and me used to get together after work in the studio and talk
things over. una had a great sense of humor. always laughin at everything.. and
she always played those kinda dumb blonde parts that everybody loved in those
days...
me
and una usta go down to schraffts ice cream parlor to share a milk shake, sit
around a table, and just bullshit about movies, shackin up with men, and just
laughin it up ... one day we saw this
One
look at Lana Turner
and you wanted
to fuck her right away
beautiful
young blonde girl sittin at the fountain, sippin a soda, and she had the biggest
ass and tits we had ever seen... she simply glowed with her assets...
turned
out it was a young lana turner, a young girl who wanted to be in the movies, and
figured somebody would see her in the drugstore and give her a job ... sure
enough someone did, and one day lana turner got hired to do a picture with a
young guy by the name of john garfield, and boy did they burn up the screen...
one look at lana turner and you wanted to fuck her right away... i know i
shouldnt use that word but little ole sadie never was good with mincin words ...
if you prefer another word, you go ahead and use it...
one
time una came over to the mansion, and i gave her a private readin on my crystal
ball... she was serious as i waved my hands over the ball and closed my eyes..
at that time una wanted to know if she would ever become a star...i saw a great
future for una, and the crystal ball backed me up...
will
i ever fall in love? she asked me, and i nodded and said una, you are gonna
marry a rich handsome man someday and have plenty of babies and live to a ripe
old age...
that's
the way it was in those days... i met lots of young actors and actresses, all of
em hell bent on makin good in the movies, no matter what they had to do...but i
wasn't gonna give up my crystal ball..
sometimes
i would talk with my mother on the other side. she would always listen to me..
she laughed when i told her about basil rathbone ... because by then basil had
made a movie as sherlock holmes, with nigel bruce as his doctor watson, and he
smoked a pipe, and acted real smart..
you
shoulda grabbed him, my mommma said, in my head.. no, mamma, i said in return...
i am just playin the field right now .... and momma would laugh and say, sadie,
i didnt raise no dumb daughter, that's for sure.. don't give your heart to just
anyone...
i
just wish i could have those days back today, me friends. hollywood was a
fascinating places and i was part of it....
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