Selling My Books on the Streets of Brooklyn 6/25 - Tuco

RIP Eli Wallach, one of greatest character actors of all time, Brooklyn born. He has 167 credits listed at IMDb. Here are the most notable: The Magnificent Seven (1960), The Misfits (1961), the final film of both Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable; The Good, the Bad and the Ugly (1966); The Hunter (1980), Steve McQueen’s final film; and The Godfather III (1990), in which he did a very credible job as an Italian. He was married to actress Anne Jackson since 1948. The most surprising fact about him is that he is a graduate of the University of Texas, class of 1936. I wonder how many New York Jews attended a southern college back then. Astonishingly, he was never nominated for an Oscar, although he received an honorary citation from the Academy in 2011. He won both a Tony and an Emmy, and other awards. He served as a medic during WWII. The recollection of his verbal exchange, its existential overtones, with members of the seven always brings a smile to my face: "If God did not want them sheared, he would not have made them sheep." So does his lively banter with Clint Eastwood in what is the best of all the spaghetti westerns: “…you're the son of a thousand fathers, all bastards like you.” He frequently played villains, although he said of himself: “I always end up being the evil one, and I wouldn't hurt a fly.” Well done, sir. Thank you.
The only surviving member of the seven is Robert Vaughn. (Facts culled form Wiki and IMDb) Here is a pic of Wallach as the treacherous Tuco in GBU:

The revised GDP numbers for the first quarter of 2014 have been been issued. The economy contracted at a rate of -2.9%. For a change, the dismal showing was not blamed on George Bush but on bad weather. Let's hope the slide was indeed temporary. Analysts are predicting growth to be 4% in the second quarter.

I found a cache of VHS tapes, mostly Disney classics, during my morning walk. I sold two, as well as three books during today's session of the floating book shop. My thanks, especially to the woman who bought the humongous Russian dictionary.
Vic's 4th Novel: http://tinyurl.com/bszwlxh
Vic's 3rd Novel: http://tinyurl.com/7e9jty3
Vic's Website: http://members.tripod.com/vic_fortezza/Literature/
Vic's Short Story Collection (Print or Kindle): http://www.tiny.cc/Oycgb
Vic's 2nd Novel: http://tinyurl.com/6b86st6
Vic's 1st Novel: http://tiny.cc/94t5h
Vic's Horror Screenplay on Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/cyckn3
Vic's Rom-Com Screenplay on Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/kny5llp
Vic’s Short Story on Kindle: http://tinyurl.com/k95k3nx