J. Edgar [The Lindbergh Law]
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The Art of the Lathe
Leonardo imagined the first one.
The next was a pole lathe with a drive cord,
illustrated in Plumier's L'art de tourner en perfection.
Then Ramsden, Vauconson, the great Maudslay,
his student Roberts, Fox, Clement, Whitworth.
The long line of machinists to my left
lean into their work, ungloved hands adjusting the calipers,
tapping the bit lightly with their fingertips.
Each man withdraws into his house of work:
the rough cut, shearing of iron by tempered steel,
blue-black threads lifting like locks of hair,
then breaking over bevel and ridge.
Oil and water splash over the whitening bit, hissing.
The lathe on night-shift, moonlight silvering the bed-ways.
The old man I apprenticed with, Roy Garcia,
in silk shirt, khakis, and Florsheims. Cautious,
almost delicate explanations and slow,
shapely hand movements. Craft by repetition.
Haig and Haig behind the tool chest.
In Diderot's Encyclopaedia, an engraving
of a small machine shop: forge and bellows in back,
in the foreground a mandrel lathe turned by a boy.
It is late afternoon, and the copper light leaking in
from the street side of the shop just catches
his elbow, calf, shoe. Taverns begin to crowd
with workmen curling over their tankards,
still hearing in the rattle of carriages over cobblestone
the steady tap of the treadle,
the gasp and heave of the bellows.
The boy leaves the shop, cringing into the light,
and digs the grime from his fingernails, blue
from bruises. Walking home, he hears a clavier—
Couperin, maybe, a Bach toccata—from a window overhead.
Music, he thinks, the beautiful.
Tavern doors open. Voices. Grab and hustle of the street.
Cart wheels. The small room of his life. The darkening sky.
I listen to the clunk-and-slide of the milling machine,
Maudsley's art of clarity and precision: sculpture of poppet,
saddle, jack screw, pawl, cone-pulley,
the fit and mesh of gears, tooth in groove like interlaced fingers.
I think of Mozart folding and unfolding his napkin
as the notes sound in his head. The new machinist sings Patsy Cline,
I Fall to Pieces. Sparrows bicker overhead.
Screed of the grinder, the bandsaw's groan and wail.
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Gioconda And Si-Ya-U
to the memory of my friend SI-YA-U,
whose head was cut off in Shanghai
A CLAIM
Renowned Leonardo's
world-famous
"La Gioconda"
has disappeared.
And in the space
vacated by the fugitive
a copy has been placed.
The poet inscribing
the present treatise
knows more than a little
about the fate
of the real Gioconda.
She fell in love
with a seductive
graceful youth:
a honey-tongued
almond-eyed Chinese
named SI-YA-U.
Gioconda ran off
after her lover;
Gioconda was burned
in a Chinese city.
I, Nazim Hikmet,
authority
on this matter,
thumbing my nose at friend and foe
five times a day,
undaunted,
claim
I can prove it;
if I can't,
I'll be ruined and banished
forever from the realm of poesy.
1928
Part One
Excerpts from Gioconda's Diary
15 March 1924: Paris, Louvre Museum
At last I am bored with the Louvre Museum.
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poem by Nazim Hikmet
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Revolutionary Road
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Kate Winslet, Michael Shannon, Ryan Simpkins, Ty Simpkins
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Inception
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page
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Inception [trailer 2]
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ken Watanabe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Marion Cotillard, Ellen Page
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Inception [Don't Be Afraid to Dream a Little Bigger]
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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Inception [This Is Your First Lesson: Shared Dreaming]
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Ellen Page
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Inception [I Am the Most Skilled Extractor]
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J. Edgar
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Armie Hammer, Naomi Watts, Josh Lucas, Dermot Mulroney, Ed Westwick, Lea Thompson, Judi Dench, Jeffrey Donovan
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J. Edgar [You Perjured Yourself]
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Josh Hamilton
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J. Edgar [That Was the Old Bureau]
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Naomi Watts
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J. Edgar [My Work Comes First]
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J. Edgar [Leave the Transcriptions with Me]
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J. Edgar [I'm So Proud of You]
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Judi Dench, Sadie Calvano
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Django Unchained
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Don Johnson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington, Zoe Bell, Christoph Waltz, Franco Nero, James Remar, Bruce Dern
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Django Unchained [trailer 2]
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Don Johnson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Samuel L. Jackson, Kerry Washington, Zoe Bell, Christoph Waltz, Franco Nero, James Remar, Bruce Dern
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Django Unchained [I'm Curious Why You Are Curious]
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Christoph Waltz, Leonardo DiCaprio
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The Wolf of Wall Street
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jon Favreau, Spike Jonze, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey, Cristin Milioti, Jon Bernthal, Jean Dujardin, Ethan Suplee, Katarina Cas, Madison McKinley, Kyle Chandler
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The Wolf of Wall Street [trailer 2]
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio, Jon Favreau, Spike Jonze, Jonah Hill, Margot Robbie, Matthew McConaughey, Cristin Milioti, Jon Bernthal, Jean Dujardin, Ethan Suplee, Katarina Cas, Madison McKinley, Kyle Chandler
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When I played Leonardo DiCaprio's mother, they liked that Leo had very hooded eyes and a rounded nose with a ball. They said, They look like they could be mother and son.
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