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The Beard
Jon Presco
2012-12-26 20:03:59 UTC
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Andy Warhol did a movie from Michael McClure's play `The Beard' without the Beat Poets permission. Michael got the famous SF attorney, Melvin Belli to slap a injunction on Andy, thus the world famous artist's movie has not been released to the public.

I felt Michael Harkins was censoring me when I merely mentioned he knew McClure and Jim Morrison. Michael met my mother for the first time when we attended Christine's funeral. In 1962, Rosemary told her eldest children she was making porno movies and prostituting herself for the mob. In tears she said she wanted to tell us before Mark and I came upon one of her movies. We had seen one porno that Randy Silver found in his father's closet. Did my mother fear her sons would behold some masked man going down on her?

The Beard employs Jean Harlow and Billy the Kid against their will. Billy goes down on Jean. A beard can be a woman's muff. Why is a famous actress and western outlaw being used to make a sexual uproar? Could it be these characters are found OUT WEST where there is a liberal and beat audience? Andy is BACK EAST with the Velvet Underground and perhaps is in coastal competition with McClure. This ARTIST and POET are having a heavyweight fight. It's cultural warfare!

My kindred, Jessie Benton was the patron of the author, Bret Harte. My father used Jack London's character `The Sea Wolf' to raise his two sons. In 1964 I fled up north after my girlfriend's father threatened to kill me. He had killed Melinda's first boyfriend, a twenty year old Beat named Sky. Melinda was sixteen. Two men came into the New Balladeer, threw Sky against the wall, and told him to get out of town. He refused. A week later he was found dead with his face blow-torched off. He was tortured to death by members of the Purple Gang. Melinda's father and two uncles owned about half of New Mexico where she went to Catholic school. A nun would put her under her desk and take kicks at her saying;

"This is how you treat a Jew!"

My friend, Bryan McClean of Love was a good friend of Sky and was ot happy when I began seeing Melinda.

"She's a Black Widow. She is responsible for my friend's death!"

At sixteen I had to conclude that men fight and die over a woman's beard, her beaver……and, you don't mess with a vagina owned by the Purple Gang. I watched an incredible drama unfold as Melinda fought against the idea that her father owned her beard, and thus it was his right to murder anyone that went after it without his permission.

As for these naughty bad boys fighting over `The Beard' ……GROW UP! Let is see Andy's movie. In the real West folks die for Love – and Art!

I got it wrong about McClure being disgusted with Jim about him being a Sex Pot. This is what attracted Michael to Morrison, he wanting him in his play. Jim got his sexiness from Arthur Lee of Love. Thus, what goes around, comes around. But – where is THE LOVE?

Above is the painting of Melinda Rosamond rendered. They were best friends. Bryan dated Liza Minelli who Andy did an image of. Andy did several images of our kindred, Liz. Melinda was a hostage of the Purple Gang. When Melinda's father decided I would live, he offered me a job at one of his theatres that showed soft porn. Linda was disgusted – of course! Her father would allow me to see beaver on the silver screen, but, not his daughter's beaver.

I was seventeen. I asked my lover if I took the job would I be part of Don's family. Melinda gave me a dirty look.

"What do you think?"

Would I have beheld my mother the Porn Star at Don Frank's movie theatre.

When I worked at Yale Trucking in Hell's Kitchen, I was called `The California Kid'. I was still seventeen when I cam home and got a job at May Company. In 1965 Melinda came to my place of work with my friend Keith Purvis. She told me I should move back up north where she had fled from her father, because there was a movement. This was the Free Speech Movement that was fought to the streets by un-famous people.

It appears McClure wanted Jim Morrison to be in the film version of The Beard, thus, Michael was creating a male sex god, a rock porno star in order to get the Free Love and Free Speech Movement focussed in on HIM, the Sex Genius and Svengali of Hippieville. It appears Morrison was McClure's
Sex Puppet, his Ken Doll, his Frankestein that goes down on Barbie. Arthur Lee was the real deal. Screw McClure. Amber tried to screw every dude at the College of Arts and Crafts as – her project!

This fight over a fake pussy is bullshit – and not art or poetry! Jim is a manufactured fake rock star who is arrested for exposing his cock on stage.
Jon Presco

Michael McClure:

"… Warhol has caused me a lot of grief. He wrote via his apprentice Malanga asking permission to do The Beard as a seventy-minute sound film. We exchanged several letters. At first it sounded good and then finally I said NO! Then I got a card from LA with no return address saying they had gone ahead and done Beard anyway. Then there were telephone calls. And Warhol surrogates showed up in town making rumors about the film being shown in L.A. I jumped on a plane and few to LA and picked up four beautiful girls and nailed Andy at the Trip Club where he was doing his Velvet Underground shot. He showed us the film in a castle in the Hollywood HIlls and the girls and I walked out afterwards without saying a word. It was bad! Next day I phoned and told him never to show the film. Then I had three more meetings with Andy here and gave a showing of the film for Jo Anna and a few mutual friends. It looked even worse than the first time. Warhol has promised to neither show the film nor sell the prints and I have a print of it. Though God knows I don't want it." (FL101-2)





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