kip_w (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} kip_w) wrote,@ 2008-04-06 18:10:00 |
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our H. Allen Smith reading for today
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From Let the Crabgrass Grow, H. Allen Smith writes about the Pinhole Audience of people who watch TV shows of live events, not to see the event, but to catch a glimpse of somebody they know or have met in the audience or somewhere in the scene:
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From Let the Crabgrass Grow, H. Allen Smith writes about the Pinhole Audience of people who watch TV shows of live events, not to see the event, but to catch a glimpse of somebody they know or have met in the audience or somewhere in the scene:
SPOOKY. A cocker spaniel, Member of the Vincent Goff household in suburban New Jersey. Several years ago Spooky had the honor to romp for a full thirty minutes with a dachshund named Ballyhoopin Gaylord of Soapstone during a visit to a public park. Since that memorable day Ballyhoopin Gaylord of Soapstone has been entered each year in the dog show at Madison Square Garden and during the telecasts of this event, the Goffs gather before their screen, with Spooky, and watch intently for the appearance of the aristocratic dachshund. When he does come in view, even in a group of dogs, there are cries of delight from the Goffs, and Spooky is seized and lifted to the screen. One Goff holds him, another twists his head toward the screen, and the others cry: "Look, Spooky! There he is! You played with him! Remember? Oh, darn it, come on and look!" Unbiased and cynical observers of this scene believe that Spooky has never once recognized his old friend.To think that this man lived in the same state as my parents in his final years, possibly less than a hundred miles away, and I never knew it until it was too late. It'd be interesting to see if there's a record anywhere of the interview Ed Murrow did of him on "Person to Person." Probably have to go to a museum and watch it in a booth, if it exists, but it would be worth it.
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