A Selection From RINGOLEVIO
The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game
“A hard-top convertible gets its name because it has no centerpost separating the front and back windows. When both windows are rolled down there is a cinemascopic space from the front to the back windshield — an opening about four feet wide and 15 inches high.
“This is what O’Keefe was aiming for when he dove at the slow rolling Oldsmobile, but his Hollywood fantasy of a getaway didn *t quite make it. ”
Emmett Grogan, who was the 12-year-old dead end kid in the driver’s seat waiting for his friends to come out of the flower shop with the locked cash register, describing in Ringolevio the debacle of an episode of juvenile delinquency...
The Hollywood fantasy of a getaway embraced by the ’60’s generation of cul-de-sac kids didn’t quite make it either, and Ringolevio is the eloquent 1-told-you-so of a man who was there trying to show us so, in the Haight-Ashbury, on the Lower East Side, at Altamont — Emmett “I-Was-ATeenage-Cat-Burglar” Grogan, originator of the Diggers and “free. ”