Flinging Poo

It would be fair to say that some of my earliest memories of childhood were of my mother being beaten by my father. They weren't the only ones, but they were the strongest and have had the most lasting effect on me emotionally. I recall many memories from back then. I had many normal experiences and it was like I led a normal life, but had this other part of my life that I kept hidden from others, like a second life where I stood witness to the brutalities of my father. My mother has said he used to beat me, but I don't have memories of this. They are all of my mother. I remember her being pulled around part of the kitchen by her hair. I remember him yelling and throwing a ketchup bottle at her and it smashing against the refridgerator and all the red spraying against it's side. I remember him beating her with his belt, or asking her to get a coat hanger for him. When she wouldn't he demanded that I get one for him. I remember panicked and crying because I would have to

Shorty- -Was a roommate with Jason Miller (actor, priest in Exorcist), for a summer at his mothers summer stock (?) -Was a driver for Paul Newman and his wife during one of his movies - "Rachel, Rachel" (Paul's wife talked about publishing his poetry, which he wrote on the stock sheets). He smoked pot with the screenwriter (Stewart Stern?). Promised a part in a new movie being produced in NYC. He turned it down. He knew the guy they went with instead and how they got him to blush for the camera ("He was a young guy and kind of innocent and Paul shouted as they were shooting 'Look at her nice tits'"). -Sat on Buster Crab's knee one a kids show on ABC that his father producted/directed. -There's a picture of him in a crib, being strolled by the elder Carradine (Keith's father). My mother has the picture. - Invited to have lunch with Elvis; decided against it because he wasn't 'cool anymore'. - Greenwhich Village - Harper Bergoff Sch