Tennessee Williams and me at Kennedy Center Honors, 1981. (finally got the photo up a day later, after multiple attempts in which Blogger uploaded the photo MOST of the way, and then the upload progress slide REVERSED each time!!!
>>> GOGGLE-OWNED BLOGGER WILL NOT ALLOW ME TO UPLOAD A PICTURE OF TENNESSEE WILLIAMS AND ME AT THIS TIME. I will try again later . . .
>>> FOLLOW UP regarding the New York production of Tennessee Williams' IN MASKS OUTRAGEOUS AND SINCERE:
Hi Victor,
I see you do not know "the half of it" (this is NOT a criticism!!!), concerning how Tennessee came to pick me and what he has seemed to have continued to direct from beyond the grave, so to speak. You see, "socialite" Kate Moldawer, was FAR more than that (and I cannot say with any authority that the lead in Masks is modelled on her before at least reading the play -- which I have never seen more than a few pages at a time that Tom had some of us read so he heard dialogue spoken -- but Tom had already come to fear and hate Maria BEFORE I was on the scene. He felt trapped by her and could not escape her -- and in fact I am the one person alive (other than John Uecker -- and maybe John Lahr) who knows that Maria hatched the plot with John Eastman and Sewanee lawyers to overturn the codicil to TW's will that Jackie Kennedy Onassis had urged him to add on the night of Jan. 11, 1982 at Jean Stein and George Plimpton's party, after TW received a special award from NYC, presented by Elizabeth Ashley, as I recall.
You see, it is NOT just Dakin, TW's brother, and Dotson Rader who claim John Uecker murdered Tennessee in THEIR PUBLISHED MEMOIRS (Dakin was dismissed as a kook, Dotson's career was ruined and he now lives in Los Angeles area very quietly), but now I am totally certain of it as well -- probably by smothering him with a pillow when Maria, whom Uecker has claimed to me sometimes "possesses" him like a demon ("demon" is my word not his, as he always idolized Maria to me). And when my own mother assured those in charge that she had me "chemically lobotomized" on Lithium -- which I was on more-or-less 1978 - 1990 (but NOT while i worked for TW), then after a run in with Newt Gingrich's operation of bringing drugs from Mexico into Stone Mountain Park immediately behind my home, watching them downloaded into Inland Seafood and Sysco Food Service trucks, and delivered in giant food bags to distributors who never ordered food at fast food restaurants late at night.
You see, at the time, I knew my mother was involved, but -- although rarely trusting a Republican, I went to Gingrich's office to report it rather than my representative, Ben Jones (aka "Congressman Cooter" after his role in DUKES OF HAZARD) who was known for his drinking problem them, so I thought he'd be soft. Little did I know until later that Gingrich was IN CHARGE of it all (he also got a number of citations for soliciting sex with men in public parks in ATL right after graduating college. Those could be found without difficulty on the internet until a couple of years ago. Now they are ENTIRELY expunged and suppressed -- tee-hee!!!). I ended up in jail for 15 weeks on a trumped up simple trespass charge, and then released to "house arrest" probation for a year -- the important thing was the Judge ordered that I have WEEKLY blood tests to be CERTAIN I was on sufficient Lithium to "be therapeutic", and given how all that works, by the time the year was up, i had been convinced I actually WAS mentally ill and continued with it religiously until early 2009, when my shrink nurse said in the ten years I'd been under her I'd NEVER shown signs of a mood swing (and I hadn't), so took me off and I began waking up FAST, recovering my drug-stunted IQ, but more importantly, seeing how events in my life were far more significant than I had realized and the interconnections of those who had been harming me -- and indeed Tennessee Williams.
I can swear in a Court of Law to how Maria leveraged Leoncia McGee (TW's maid), and bribed Gary Tucker and Schuyler Wyatt into perjuring themselves and claiming Tom was incompetent when he signed the codicil Jackie Onassis had hoped would protect him from being murdered -- which she disclosed at that same meeting was coming. Even John Uecker admitted to me several times that Skye Wyatt told him ALSO that after Gary died and he moved to Chattanooga and was a flunky for a caterer that it was a "high-placed" Legislator in the Tennessee Sate Legislature that paid for his very LUXURIOUS lifestyle -- WITHOUT trade for sex. Skye died in 1994 or thereabouts of AIDS. His daughters found me on the internet and i have discussed with them the truth which they have accepted -- as has Skye's former wife and her mother. (He had been married BEFORE coming to Key West when I knew him).
Of course Maria is dead and Michael Remer, Sewanee's lawyer also part of the original plot, died last November. Only John Eastman (who ALWAYS severely disrespected Tennessee when we were in his office -- a shame that he took over about that time from his Dad Lee who was GREAT, and I have been to Lee's and his wife's apartment as well), is still alive. Thank God Paul McCartney finally wised up and recently had someone ELSE take over management of his business empire!!!
I feel I am giving you too much too quickly. I'm sure you can understand why the people I continue to fight politically claim I am deranged, but the fact is their claims I am manic went bad as I've continued holding the same ideas for over three years now and the longest recorded manic episode was about nine months long. I have been committed to mental hospitals here in Wilmington TWICE in the last half year, but was immediately released by the head doctor who knew they were lie-based. I've been jailed five times on seven completely false charges in the last year -- all of them pending still, but in limbo for a while on continuing holds -- the DA having no evidence to prove them and not wanting me to be completely free. My movements are NOT restricted, and the charges are all minor misdemeanors. The plan had been to commit me and drug me indefinitely but I'm too smart for them to get away with it. I sleep well regardless and through ALL retain my sense of humor and wit.
In trying to wrap this up, let me point out a curious historical fact. My distant cousin, Mary Lily Kenan of Wilmington and Kenansville, NC was the last wife of Henry Flagler who had ACTUALLY founded and owned twice as much stock in the Standard Oil Trust than his well-known front man John D. Rockefeller did -- and then he opened Florida, built much of its infrastructure, etc. -- extending the railroad eventually all the way to Key West, encouraged by his youngish bride, Mary Lily. When he died he left virtually his entire estate to Mary Lily, and the NEW YORK TIMES declared ML Kenan Flagler the wealthiest woman on earth, a serious understatement, given how well Flagler and Kenans are at hiding wealth.
Mary Lily's brother Wiliam R. Kenan JR., not only discovered acetylene while in college, but had built national companies of his own before Flagler got him to run the Florida ventures like Rockefeller ran Standard Oil, so Will Kenan became UBER wealthy separately. Neither Will nor Mary Lily ever had children, so left all to their Kenan relatives and founded Charitable Trusts in support of University Education -- especially surrounding UNC Chapel Hill, which in 1789, had actually been FOUNDED by Kenans and some allied families. And THOSE Kenans not only built new businesses from scratch, but inherited Frank Hawkins' estate -- the man who put the Phoenix in Atlanta with his Coca-Cola, banking, steel, and other fortunes. Today the Kenan Charitable Trust are the largest private support of University Education, Democracy, Development help for the Greater Mekong Delta (as a sort of amends for the Vietnam War, I suppose), now moving much support toward Performing Arts and beginning the project of preserving all the native languages and cultures of Latin America.
Thomas S. Kenan III, now in charge of all the companies and Charitable Trusts, and I are blood-connected at the year 1700, but once dated the same man at different times in 1985. Tommy and I became acquainted. Because of that, when the Republicans chased me out of Georgia in 2010 and I fled to Puerto Vallarta and Mismaloya, and I tried to mount a 100 Birthday Party for TW there, lining up the top theaters, restaurants, and a few celebrities to come speak (but not only was beat up several times, poisoned several times, held hostage in a crack house for a month, had all my wealth stolen and became homeless so had to give it all up), Tom Kenan sent 60 MINUTES to get my story, which they said they'd like to run several segments on when we get the Republicans beat back enough to be able to do it. I continue to send copies of every blog post to my Kenan relatives, 60 MINUTES, and Harvard University's Legal Department -- as they told me they had NO IDEA how they'd been cheated out of the terms of the codicil.
But guess what??? Texas Kate Moldawer (later married a Dr. McNamara of Houston, her fourth, survived his passing and died a few years ago of cancer. Her son Dudley Sharp III told me they found a copy of my ms for WALKING ON GLASS dead center on her writing desk when she died) had grown up Kate Schweppe of Atlanta -- and SHE had told me many times that her family's best friends were the WEALTHIEST of my distant relatives who ALL lived in Atlanta then. That is probably how she came to know how to live and act as if SHE were the wealthiest woman on earth.
Maria caused (helped cause) the corrupted movie-set world.
You see, my mother, blackmailed my homosexual father into marrying her in 1950 to hide her swastikas behind the iconic Kenan name. We had swastikas in the dinner plates in the 1950s and 60s. She beat us every day for now reason, and today does NOT deny either of those things -- she will explain her justifications, and DOES!!!
In 1990, key Jews in Atlanta FIRST confirmed my parents are the top Nazis in the US -- and my 15-year-long internet friend, Jonathan Reiner (cousin of Rob, nephew of Carl -- and he's got an Emmy or two of his own now) made me an HONORARY JEW when I first blogged about this fact. Just today, I got another poke from him on Facebook that he approves of my current blogging. I got another poke from Edmund White, whom I know personally and feel I've taken over some of his Gay Rights work. And Gregory Mosher is another of my key supporters as well, after we worked together with that mounting of A HOUSE NOT MEANT TO STAND in Chicago '82.
So how may I serve you and your production, Sir??? i could not imagine a better thing to do with my time right now. i do have some court things here in Wilmington that should be put into indefinite limbo or DROPPED by 4/3/12, leaving me free to travel. I had ACTUALLY meant to tell you to please share my memoir with anyone else on the production who might benefit from the story of that time in TW's life, but ask that it not shared beyond those people -- any others could BUY it kindle edition, although I am hoping to have paper soon as well. Long story, but Amazon suppresses it, not allowing some friends of mine to post customer reviews to make it look insignificant with few reviews, etc. They even took the professional reviews off until I bitched up a storm in my blog and then (months later) mysteriously found them and reposted them. HA!!!
This morning, I discovered that although I had ABSOLUTELY made certain that I had included a link to those reviews on my blog, when it reached you, my dear friends the hackers (whom the Executive Director of the Flagler Museum first proved to me this was happening in OUR correspondence two years ago), had REPLACED my link with a SECOND use of the Amazon link, so here I'll try to send it again: http://scottkenan.blogspot.com/2011/12/professional-reviews-of-walking-on.html .
So can I help ya out with anything??? Interviews for PR??? Meet with cast and crew of Q&A in person or video feed??? I really DO know how to behave in public, so don't worry if I will cross paths with some of the Sewanee supports like Uecker or Thomas Keith (who added lies to my ms when he edited it for Alyson Books). Thomas's boyfriend Arturo's family (who are Colombians) live in Stone Mountain, GA and are top players is the cocaine traffic that still rages through there.
It all fits together and is run by the Republican Party with Fox News handling disinformation/ electronic communications hacking. The woman who pretended to be my best friend and STEERED me into the Alyson Books contract is Sean Hannity of Fox News's best friend. REALLY!!! Christal Presley of Atlanta.
Forgive me after all this writing if I do not really proof before sending.
All best!!!
Scott
On Sun, Mar 25, 2012 at 11:33 PM, Victor Syrmis wrote:
Hi Scott, so great to hear from you and I too am not a scholar, but reading just a few sentences of your book makes me ask...who is or what is scholar? You certainly sound like one to me. The bottom line is TW touched all our lives some deeper than others, and you and I are special few, mine inadvertent yours by choice I would guess.
I loved reading your dream about the 'grotto' (womb) and from it I gleaned TW and SC had a profound "temporal" experience together. I believe it takes two to tango in life so for you to have had that experience he too must have had the same or equivalent experience. Joe Jeffrey's who I believe is a sincere and honest man and who I have got to know over these past few years, and who states what he feels better than most of us says you SC are in this "draft". I would love to share this email with him but only if you want me too. I think he was anxious contacting you - scholars I've come to believe through the past 8 years with this 'script', are protective of their relationship with what TW means to them. So I said I will contact him. If I don't get back to you soon it's because tonight we load into the theatre and it will be chaotic for many days......
Best regards and please keep me/us posted with your plans...and write back!
Victor Syrmis
Producer
In Masks Outrageous And Austere
Tennesse Williams’ last play
www.masksoutrageous.com
http://vimeo.com/38243290
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