Dowd: J.F.K., Marilyn, 'Camelot'

[La_Serpiente]

J.F.K., Marilyn, 'Camelot'

NEW ORLEANS

Here are five things you might not know about John F. Kerry:

• Like W., he loved "Cats."
  
• Like his hero J.F.K., he was crazy about the musical "Camelot" and Marilyn Monroe (but only on screen).
  
• Like that other earnest Massachusetts liberal, Michael Dukakis, he is drawn to the sultry tango. (Then again, tango is called the dance of "vertical solitude.")
  
• Like Dennis Kucinich, he writes soulful poetry.
  
• Like my older brother Michael, he never got over the image of Elizabeth Taylor in a white bathing suit in "A Place in the Sun."
  

It's not often that you get a presidential candidate to recite poetry to you, especially in a year when W. and J.F.K. are going macho a macho.

But there was Mr. Kerry flying from Boston to New Orleans on Friday, sipping tea for his hoarse throat and reeling off T. S. Eliot's "Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."

"There are so many great lines in it," he said. " `Do I dare to eat a peach?' `Should I wear my trousers rolled?' `Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets/The muttering retreats/Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels/And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells."

Then he started on "Gunga Din" and " `talk o' gin and beer.' "

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J.F.K., Marilyn, 'Camelot'

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[David Dunham]

1. It Looks Like We Finally Have a Candidate Maureen Likes.

And a very well read guy as well.

[rednek_Liberal]

2. G.W. probably

couldn't even spell T.S.Eliot

[Faygo Kid]

3. GW has never even heard of TS Eliot

Unless he drafted a coloring book with which I am not familiar. Wouldn't you love to know just what Bush DOES know about history, art, literature, etc.? There's a well kept secret. Wonder why (sarcasm).

[newyawker99]

5. Hi rednek_Liberal!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[JohnKleeb]

4. I dont know about y'all but I had no idea he was this interesting