Why i love my job
 

Today is a special day.I've casually discovered that this gentleman i was talking to turns out to be the english cousin of this genius of the sixties american avantgarde and he invites me to join him for a drink and talk about all things Warhol/Heliczer/La Monte Young etc etc.This is when my job really gratifies me.

Piero Heliczer

Actor: June 20, 1937 - Rome, Italy




From All Movie Guide: Piero Heliczer was a key figure in the underground film movement in New York of the 1960s. Born in Italy, he initially broke into films after winning a talent contest at the age of four for the "most typical-looking Italian child." Heliczer played under the name of Pier Giorgio Heliczer in the two least-known commercial Italian films, typecast as the "cute fascist kid" during World War II. Tragically, when he was only seven years old, his father, a resistance fighter, was executed by Nazis allied with Mussolini. According to Heliczer's own account, he worked as an extra in Vittorio de Sica's masterwork Ladri di Biciclette (The Bicycle Thief, 1948), although this has yet to be verified. Heliczer's mother was not fond of Italian neorealism and its depiction of impoverished and dirty children, and decided to immigrate to the United States with her son sometime in the late '40s rather than attempt to further his career as a child actor. Heliczer graduated from high school in the top of his class and entered Harvard in 1955. He dropped out after two years and moved to Paris, where he established his imprint The Dead Language Press, mostly publishing his own literary works, but ultimately printing those of other authors, including Anselm Hollo, Gregory Corso, and The Beautiful Book of filmmaker Jack Smith. Heliczer's poetry was published with a fair amount of frequency in a variety of journals beside his own through about 1970. » Go to Complete Biography

Wow. That's amazing.
The best I ever got out of one of my old jobs was getting to know a guy who knew Nick Drake's family and used to have Nick's sister as a baby-sitter when he was young.

When i heard the surname Heliczer i couldn't help but asking him if he was related because that i know there are only two Heliczer in England(it's a polish surname by the way) but it's a more common surname in the USA.About a month a go i got to chat to a lady who's related to the late Brian Epstien too but that interested me less for obvious reasons to this board.I'm really looking forward to our drink and chat and i'll sure email Billy Name about this because he knew Piero from that whole east coast scene.I'm very exited about it because i could spend hours talking about the subject.

Sorry to one-up you, but I've met Alan Titchmarsh through my job.

Why else would he be on here all day?

I've never met anyone famous through my job. But Johnny Ball does drink in my local.

Crikey, he hasn't posted a poll to ask us what he should do this weekend! He's going to be wandering around lost and helpless.

Someone post one for him. I would but I've got to go home. I vote for knitting himself a jumper ready for the winter.

Why you ask mama?

Perhaps she thought you lived in a group home for the mentally unsound.
This is a natural conclusion any reasonable person could come to.

Hmmm.well,hmmm,erm.....,cough cough,hmmmm,well,erm......

People that know more than others didn't get that way by thinking that they know everything; it's quite the opposite.

When Socrates was asked to explain the origins of his great wisdom, he laughed & remarked that, "it is perhaps because I am only a little less ignorant than everyone else."

I'm a reservations clerk.

Ops!Atari is on fire today.