Thursday, November 30, 2006

Ask Morton....

Can you do imitations?

Yes!

How about George Clooney?

He can do imitations too!

No, can you do a George Clooney imitation?

Yes! "Look at me! I'm George Clooney!"

What about James Woods?

"Look at me! I'm James Woods!"

Christopher Walken?

"Look at me! I'm Christopher Walken!"

Sandra Day O'Connor?

"Look at me! I'm Sandra Day O'Connor!"

William Faulkner?

"Look," the man said, and, in the lingering twilight heat, the cicadas madly screeching, I turned and saw all at once the half-remembered vision of the boy he had been, handsome and doomed, laid like a shroud on the ruined man, a feathery gauze through which the deep lines of his face and the purpled swollen veins and all the other landmarks of his debauchery blurred and faded, leaving only the boyish terror in his eyes, eyes which had once glimpsed fearfully his future ruination, but had refused to believe, only to see now, in the startling shimmer of heat, the inescapable truth and now wishing not to believe and to forget, but not forgetting any more than the young doomed man he had been could remember, so that memory and absence of memory were now intertwined as the vision of the young man settled like dew upon the ruins of the old. And I said, "Are you him?" And he said, "Yes."

Wow. That was pretty good. Can you do Ernest Hemingway?

"Look at me! I'm Ernest Hemingway!"