
Who was Oscar Levant? Besides being one of George Gershwin's closest
friends, he was a true renaissance man ala 1920s,30s& 40s. He was a gifted
composer, brilliant solo pianist, wise-cracking movie actor, (he played
Gene Kelly's pianist buddy in the movie version of "American in Paris")
and an author.
Oscar was born in Pittsburgh, PA in 1906. In the liner notes for his 1942
album of Rhapsody in Blue, (COL MX-251) he started his auto-biographical
sketch by commenting: "I was born, like many other children whose parents
happened to live in Pittsburgh, in Pittsburgh, December 27, 1906. It has
always been a regret that the event could not have been delayed four days,
so that I would have been born in 1907. As it is, I'm reckoned as a
nineteen-sixer, and thus thirty-five at the present time, (1942) when I am
really only thirty-four." He died in California in 1973.

Some Levant Widsom
A pun is the lowest form of humor -- when you don't think of it first.
Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.
I once said cynically of a politician, "He'll double cross that bridge
when he comes to it."
I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.
Once he makes up his mind, he's full of indecision. [On Dwight D.
Eisenhower]
Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.
So little time and so little to do.
There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.
There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
What the world needs is more geniuses with humility, there are so few of
us left.
Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
I am no more humble than my talents require.
I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything
on.
I'm going to memorize your name and throw my head away.
So little time and so little to do.
The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the
Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.
Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.
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