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Michelle and I went to a fun Hollywood party with Dennis Gassner… I walked up to a lady and said “ you are a good looking woman”. She told me her name Theadora Van Runkle. We talked for several hours. She told me that Man Ray used to chase her around…she said he had a huge libido…we became good friend and stayed in touch… i recently found this note that she sent us in late 2006.
The Haiku Mill June 1, 2022 Music by Georgy Gusev
Performances by Mariel Roberts, Georgy Gusev and Dan Tepfer at Enigma Studio 3 in the Puʻunēnē Sugar Mill. Special guest appearances by Olivia Coletti in her hand made dress of discarded wire mesh and Dennis Gassner playing the Sewell Sculptures.
Brad Kay pantomiming to “Deep Creek” by Jelly Roll Morton and his Red Hot Peppers recorded in NYC in 1928!
Alan Clements, founder/director of World Dharma Productions visits Tom Sewell’s Studio 3 at the abandoned sugar mill at Puunene on Maui.
Fred Havens sent me a copy of an obituary for Mily Del Rubio, the last of the Del Rubio Triplets. I remember them well. One day I was driving in West LA and I stopped at a Big restaurant to make a phone call or something. Walking past the dining room I noticed a sign announcing that the Del Rubio Triplets would be performing at dinner time. Intrigued, I returned and watched their show. I was enchanted! They told me they shared a mobile home in the Palos Verdes Trailer Park. I arranged to hire them to play at a baby shower I was planning for Lori and Alan Erenberg, celebrating the birth of their son, Victor. The party was a huge success. The guests included Lori's parents (her mother Cheri and her father "the Accordion King" Milton Mann) Alan's father "the Mattress King" Victor Erenberg, Mario and Anna Bell (my next door neighbors), Tim Leary, Hervé Villechaize, Hal Frederick, Christine Fulbright, Sally Thomas, Loren Paul Caplan and his wife Lori, Lynn Bregman, Seymour Wynn, Alana Cook, Ian Krieger, Rick and Marie Elfman and many more!
