Hawaii 5-O Actor James MacArthur Dead

He originated the role of Danno

on the classic Hawaii 5-O

His Mom was the famous actress Helen Hayes

"Actors cannot choose the manner in which they are born.

 Consequently, it is the one gesture in their lives

 completely devoid of self-consciousness."

Helen Hayes 

"I got into the acting business very young."

James MacArthur 

"Beating the drums for Hawaii is not hard to do...

 the place just grows on you."

James MacArthur

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"Age is not important unless you're a cheese."

Helen Hayes 

Scott Caan, today's Danno

"Childhood is a short season."

Helen Hayes

 "There are five stages in the life of an actor:

 Who's Mary Astor?

 Get me Mary Astor.

 Get me a Mary Astor Type.

 Get me a young Mary Astor.

 Who's Mary Astor?"

Mary Astor

 "When I see the road I've taken,

 I have to say that thanks to good luck,

 because without good luck one can do nothing,

 I've come out pretty well."

James MacArthur 

Aloha, James

Mahalo

I Am Become. . .

Aloha

and Welcome to Waikiki!

“I think theres a little child in all of us

 and we all to often forget

 to let the child out to play.”

 Donna A. Favors 

Watching a Shadow-Show on da Wall

"To them, I said,

 the truth would be literally nothing

 but the shadows of the images

upon that wall."

Plato

Between classes: Manoa Elementary School

"Human felicity is produced

 not as much by great pieces of good fortune

 that seldom happen

 as by little advantages

 that occur every day."

Benjamin Franklin 

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A thousand little hammers

(mallets really)

tap tap tapping

rarely pausing, tap,

tap, tap tap. . .

I would build of myself

something solid

something three-dimensional

but each tiny (some bigger)

tap

tap tap

only works me out thinner.

I am losing stolidity

finer and finer

reaching an ever-thinner edge

with tiny cracks forming

like feelers

transmitting both ways.

No longer a wall,

an island,

or exposed nerve,

 I now am resonant 

trembling with immediacy

received from every side.

I have produced no

statue,

no bracelet, no

coin.

But am become

as a

 cymbal sounding,

 echoing certain vibrations

trembling;

Yet I am earth-brass,

gold flesh hung on an axis,

sometimes spinning

smashing wildly-

When I am

      "worked."  cloudia

inspired by the brass workers of India

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