Dillinger's First Harold Night - 3/27/03
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[Hoover walks in to the room]
"Good Lord, what has this man done? There must be at least 8 bodies in here. That's it, this man is a menace, he must be stopped. Issue a statement, Dillinger is now Public Enemy Number.....oh I don't know .....number three, wait,... no make it number one, yes that's it Pubic Enemy Number ONE.
You hear that Dillinger? Dillinger....DILLINGER!!!
"Good Lord, what has this man done? There must be at least 8 bodies in here. That's it, this man is a menace, he must be stopped. Issue a statement, Dillinger is now Public Enemy Number.....oh I don't know .....number three, wait,... no make it number one, yes that's it Pubic Enemy Number ONE.
You hear that Dillinger? Dillinger....DILLINGER!!!
improv-related Dillinger quotes
"My friends stick with me, and I stick with my friends."
- John Dillinger
Improvisers call it "support," John.
"Johnnie's just an ordinary fellow. Of course he goes out
and holds up banks and things,
but he's really just like any other fellow, aside from that."
- Mary Kinder, Dillinger's girlfriend
Probably cause he "played it real" and "at the top of his intelligence"
You don't need to be flashy when you can "succeed through success:"
"They looked like bank examiners when they started working,
if it hadn't been for all the guns they were carrying."
- Jane Williams, bank employee speaking after one of the gang's holdups
"Maybe I'll learn someday, Dad, that you can't win in this game."
- Letter from John Dillinger to his father
Did you ever think, John, that merely recognizing the game is half the battle?
No need to start up a beef with Above Klepto, though:
"He said he expected they would be here after him, but since
Jenkins got killed he said he didn't know if they would or not."
- Art Miller, cellmate of Dillinger
"My friends stick with me, and I stick with my friends."
- John Dillinger
Improvisers call it "support," John.
"Johnnie's just an ordinary fellow. Of course he goes out
and holds up banks and things,
but he's really just like any other fellow, aside from that."
- Mary Kinder, Dillinger's girlfriend
Probably cause he "played it real" and "at the top of his intelligence"
You don't need to be flashy when you can "succeed through success:"
"They looked like bank examiners when they started working,
if it hadn't been for all the guns they were carrying."
- Jane Williams, bank employee speaking after one of the gang's holdups
"Maybe I'll learn someday, Dad, that you can't win in this game."
- Letter from John Dillinger to his father
Did you ever think, John, that merely recognizing the game is half the battle?
No need to start up a beef with Above Klepto, though:
"He said he expected they would be here after him, but since
Jenkins got killed he said he didn't know if they would or not."
- Art Miller, cellmate of Dillinger
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ballsy move
"[when he was 9] Johnnie became the leader of a kid gang called the Dirty Dozen. Eventually the gang started stealing coal from the Pennsylvania Railroad cars that came through the neighborhood. Inevitably, they were caught and taken to Juvenile Court. Dillinger was the only one of the kids that wasn't intimidated by the courtroom and judge. Almost as a precursor of things to come, "Dillinger stood arms folded, slouch cap over one eye, staring steadily at the judge -- and chewing gum. When the judge ordered him to take off the cap and remove the gum, Dillinger smiled crookedly and slowly stuck the gum on the peak of his cap."
"[when he was 9] Johnnie became the leader of a kid gang called the Dirty Dozen. Eventually the gang started stealing coal from the Pennsylvania Railroad cars that came through the neighborhood. Inevitably, they were caught and taken to Juvenile Court. Dillinger was the only one of the kids that wasn't intimidated by the courtroom and judge. Almost as a precursor of things to come, "Dillinger stood arms folded, slouch cap over one eye, staring steadily at the judge -- and chewing gum. When the judge ordered him to take off the cap and remove the gum, Dillinger smiled crookedly and slowly stuck the gum on the peak of his cap."
I didn't know much about John Dillinger till I started Googling for this bit. . .pretty interesting. I'm getting deep into this stuff, it's kinda of taking up a lot of my time and energy. This site opened up a whole new can of worms:
http://www.dillingerthehiddentruth.freeservers.com/
Anyway, I'll try to break away and catch the "Dillinger" show on Thursday.
Himes
http://www.dillingerthehiddentruth.freeservers.com/
Anyway, I'll try to break away and catch the "Dillinger" show on Thursday.
Himes
$5 a piece
"You're being robbed by the John Dillinger Gang, that's the best there is. These few dollars you lose here today are gonna buy you stories to tell your children, your great-grandchildren. This could be one of the big moments o' your life. Don't make it your last."
--- Warren Oates as John Dillinger in the 1973 John Milius-directed biopic "Dillinger"
"You're being robbed by the John Dillinger Gang, that's the best there is. These few dollars you lose here today are gonna buy you stories to tell your children, your great-grandchildren. This could be one of the big moments o' your life. Don't make it your last."
--- Warren Oates as John Dillinger in the 1973 John Milius-directed biopic "Dillinger"
"Samuel Johnson" good name too
Hmmm. . .sounds kind of improv-y to me:
"And why shouldn't Johnson be inconsistent? He had no notion that two hundred years after his time he would be an 'object of study.' He is engaged in a day-by-day struggle to be plausible, intelligent, and faithful to the pressure of the moment, and the schemes and systems of a reason-worshipping world - especially those systems the future has devised for making literature a teachable, memorizable subject - are irrelevant to his activity. Perhaps they are irrelevant to ours."
from "The Facts of Writing and the Johnsonian Senses of Literature" by Paul Fussell
Hmmm. . .sounds kind of improv-y to me:
"And why shouldn't Johnson be inconsistent? He had no notion that two hundred years after his time he would be an 'object of study.' He is engaged in a day-by-day struggle to be plausible, intelligent, and faithful to the pressure of the moment, and the schemes and systems of a reason-worshipping world - especially those systems the future has devised for making literature a teachable, memorizable subject - are irrelevant to his activity. Perhaps they are irrelevant to ours."
from "The Facts of Writing and the Johnsonian Senses of Literature" by Paul Fussell
