The Clarence Chronicles

The book that caused Clint Eastwood to make a serious career error. Many years ago I sent the chapter entitled “George” to Clint Eastwood.Clint Eastwood and/or his protective staff rejected the opportunity to read and produce as a movie the story George.Instead he funded and produced a total box office flop about Charlie Parker. The besotted drug addict be-bop blowing saxophone player. Charlie was a great jazz pioneer but his life had the dramatic interest of a bowl of two-week-old milk and cheerios left on the back porch in 95-degree weather.Could it be Clint Eastwood was jealous of Georges piano skills that far exceeded his own ivory-tickling talents?“This is seriously sordid Dr. Seuss for senior citizens.” - Frank Scatello: Noted art professor and president of the Fond du Lac Writers Club.“My sick step-brother has succeeded in unstopping stuff I stashed in my cerebral sink hole so enjoy.” - Robert D. Farmer: Noted string bass trumpet french horn player hiding somewhere in Florida.“Im quite surprised by the lurid laughs that escaped my lips.” - Maxine Austin: 84-year-old president of the Don Blanding Poets Society.“Im perplexed by the piety presented in these passages. Purcell is a princely passionate purveyor of the printed word.” - Hugh Hairs: First baby born in a London bomb shelter during World War II and producer of sixty two public access television shows about his humungous post card collection.