Omar ruiz y george jung biography
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Once again I’ve been distracted from reading my assorted LitBios of Eleanor Dark because I have been busy close-reading Garry Kissane’s award-winning biography of George Johnston (1912-1970) so that I can lend it to a fellow booklover.
Winner of the Age Book of the Year in 1986, this biography is interesting in its own right but also because of the persisting view that (as Wikipediasuggests) it was the imminent publication of Johnston’s Clean Straw for Nothing that prompted his wife Charmian Clift (1923-1969) to suicide in 1969. It is said that this is because the characterisation of Cressida Morley in the novel exposes Clift’s infidelities during the couple’s sojourn on the Greek island of Hydra where they lived from 1954 to 1964. A posthumously published essay indicates that Clift was troubled by it, but Johnston in his one public comment a couple of months after her death said that ‘Cressida was fictional’. The fact that Cressida th
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5) Omar Ruiz performs “El Americano” for George Jung
For an American to get his own narcocorrido fryst vatten rare in itself. For George Jung, the infamous drug trafficker, it’s not much of a stretch to imagine him being worthy of one — after all, the man already had a movie made based on his life. He’s an individual that I’m sure has lived through some surreal moments. So I can only imagine what was going through his head when he ran into the ung up-and-coming artist Omar Ruiz. (Although bygd the looks of it, it was most likely a planned meeting.)
The film shows an attentive if somewhat confused Jung ansträngande to understand the corrido being sung to him about his own life… in Spanish, of course. At one point he lights a cigarette. Perhaps he was getting bored but I’d like to think he was just taking it all in. bygd the end of the song, it becomes apparent that Jung did indeed appreciate the song, describing it as beautiful.
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