white tulips on Park Avenue

 

record producer Clive Davis

On You Tube there is a channel called Action Kid (it appears as ActionKid).  This kid walks around New York City filming, and it's as if we viewers get to take the walk too!  It's very cool.

He films sometimes in other locations, too -- he had some videos from Florida, and he did some in Boston, Massachusetts, along with other places.

But the majority of videos are of various neighborhoods and landmarks in New York City.  It seems like his narration is most animated and there's more of it on the NYC ones -- I think he is a native of the city, so he knows the most about the areas he covers there.

His accent sounds (to me) kind of like that of Jerry Seinfeld, which means the Action Kid might be from Long Island.

        On his walk today (or yesterday) he was on Park Avenue and there are all these tulips -- he would walk for a while and then say, "OK we're coming to the end of the yellow tulips, and on the next block it looks like we've got purple..."

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On Netflix now, there's a movie called Whitney Houston:  I Wanna Dance with Somebody.

I thought it was very well done.  I noticed the actor Stanley Tucci in the credits and thought, 'Well he must be playing Clive Davis because what other role would there be in this, for him?'

        And then when "Clive Davis" first appeared in the movie -- in a rainy scene with umbrellas -- I thought it was the real Clive Davis -- I wondered, 'maybe this film is going to mix some scenes with the real person in it, and some scenes with actors...?'

        But it wasn't -- it was Stanley Tucci.  He has some kind of magic.  I looked at the screen, knew it was Stanley Tucci -- all I could see was Clive Davis.

        It reminded me of the film Nixon (1995 - dir. by Oliver Stone) -- Anthony Hopkins does not "look like" Richard Nixon, but he becomes Richard Nixon for the movie.  Some kind of acting genius.  Or acting charisma.

Also available to watch on Netflix is Clive Davis:  The Soundtrack Of Our Lives -- an excellent documentary, with so much music in it that you will remember!

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