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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