Newsletter
for alumni of The Abbey School, Mt. St. Benedict, Trinidad and Tobago, W.I.
Caracas, 1 February 2020 No. 952
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Dear Friends,
Here is an idea that is interesting as something that would
be worth exploring.
There are a couple of film makers within the Oldboys,
so why not explore this??
Norman Smith, what do you think about this?
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From: amickiew@att.net
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 16:51:16
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Hi Glenn
A film with 20
characters and 20 stories will not work; too much confusion and very difficult
to follow.
Think about the movies
that you have seen; can you think of even one that had even 10 characters whose
antics were covered in great detail?
Certainly, releases
will be needed from and/or money paid to those characters that will be
represented in the movie.
By the way, you
realize that we “are blowing smoke up Uranus”
George
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From: Glen Mckoy
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 2:30 PM
Hello George,
There are so many
angles to look at it from.
I think it depends, on
how many stories we get, will dictate how many characters may be in the movie,
for example a class, that goes for 4 years together.
It may only be the
boys who submits their stories, a class could have 20 boys, can you see where I
am going, and every boy have a story..
Then there can be a
brief of the boy then, and who he is now.
Thank You George, My
son John-Glen, is a great guy, a close friend, I'm a big fan, ha! ha!
Cheers, Mis Amigos,
Adios - Glen.
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From amickiew@att.net
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 10:49:28
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Hey Glen,
Congrats on your son
John’s achievements; you must be very proud of him.
My sense is to go with
a Hollywood smaller budget film which typically do well worldwide if well
done.
“True Stories” have
become a very popular Hollywood theme with big $$$$$ profits.
We would have to
include the success recipe by including those themes that include the following
aspects: Innocence, Adventure, Gaining Adulthood, Sex, Violence, Sports (but
many of our AB sports are not popular worldwide), Food Fights, Religion,
etc.
A possibility would be
to follow the success/failure stories of 6 or so AB graduates from their time
in Trini to wherever they are today in different parts of the world.
Bigger risk, more
expensive but greatest potential for exposure and earnings.
My guess is that we
will need 2 to 3 million dollars as a very minimum if we finance it ourselves
versus selling it to one of the big studios.
If very successful we
could go with an AB2, AB3 and so on.
Then spin off a TV
series that would concentrate on the AB days in Trini.
I am confident that we
will get lots of ideas, volunteers and investors as we proceed with the
implementation of the AB.
Looking forward to
more on this topic,
George
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From: Glen Mckoy
Sent: Friday, December 20, 2013 10:14 AM
My Dear Sir
George,
On a serious
note.
I spoke to my son
John.
He is a script writer,
he just got back from London England.
He was one of the 10
people, picked every year by BBC T.V. to come and do classes with some of the
best in England, he was surprised to be picked.
He has a British
passport also, his mum is from London.
He was there for three
weeks and did very well.
He also won a
competition at Vancouver Film School for $10,000 tuition.
He is still undecided;
he is waiting for some feedback from New Zealand on something else he
wrote.
Well he is only 23
yrs. old, he said dad, I will help you write the script, for the pilot.
Now the pilot, if its
good, will support itself to be financed, however with our experts in this
Club, I don't have to worry about that, ha! ha!.
Anyhow, the best
attractions for sponsors, Trinidad Businesses, is for tax write offs for the
arts, history, culture, all three in this movie, maybe Trinidad also has these
tax loops?
Or if we go
International, it becomes a foreign film.
Just picking yuh
brains, Sir George.
Ah see we already have
a star boy, ha! ha!
Cheers, Mis Amigos.
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From: andresfreytez@hotmail.com
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 10:54:14
-0400
He He!!!!
Don is a Saga Boy!!!!
I also want to star in
the movie!!! (in the location chapters at Bombshell Bay and Mayaro)
Andres (Freddy)
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From: dgodda1@lsu.edu
Date: Thu, 19 Dec 2013 08:18:20
-0600
Donald A. Goddard
Baton Rouge, Louisiana
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From: GEORGE [mailto:amickiew@att.net]
With all the information
bouncing room, I believe we have enough for a screenplay for a Hollywood,
Bollywood or Trini movie.
Also, for creating a TV series
that would weekly present our adventures and misadventures?
This effort would also help
Trinidad’s economy.
This type of entertainment has
been successful in past decades.
The monks could use these
$$$$$$ to resurrect the AB.
What do y’all think?
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From: mckoy43glen@hotmail.com
Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2013 17:15:41 +0000
I bought the book,
it’s in the movie already, Sir Bandit, already have parts of a great pilot, in
the early stage of the institution.
If I must say, we have
some good material; it just depends, on how we bring it to life.
The chemistry will
depend on the actors, capturing that bond living together for about 4 or 5
years in the mountains, of the last British Island in the West Indies, since
the 1940's to 1982?
So close to the
jungles of South America, not really too far away from Devil's Island, of
French Guyana.
These are the boys,
who lived to tell the tale, a secret paradise, in the middle of nowhere, but
had it all, everything you would find, everywhere else in the world was there,
Monks, from Europe,
Knights in the making, Snakes &Scorpion Hills, Nuns, swimming pool, tennis
courts, Bee Hives on the side of cliffs, Monastery, their own water, their own
everything, would you like to know more, about this hidden Dutch Enclave, and
the untold stories??
This is real, it’s a
world in another world, I wish I could do animation, then I would be able to
express myself more clearly, ha ha, it’s fun to ponder, what if, a good read.
Trapped in the
mountains, when the rest of the world was going mad.
Adios Glen.
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From: salo00011@hotmail.com
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 21:25:56 +0000
Ok, guys,
I am now catching up,
I was away for a few days working, now I see we already have a star-boy so
maybe I could be a supporting star-boy
Azizul Kenny Mohammed
Realtor/REO/Pre-foreclosure Sales
Property Valuations
O#(201)984-2443
C#(201)401-3133
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Alex Tary <atary1141@charter.net>
Jan 28 at 1:52 AM
It is funny how the
world has shrunk and part of it has been caused by the easing of travel and the
internet.
The whole thing
started with my cousin Irene who after getting out of Hungary at the end of
WWII wound up in Austria and from there in Australia decided to take a round-the-world
tour and met her husband, an American, in Greece.
On a subsequent trip
to Hungary they met another Hungarian couple on a tour from Budapest to
Kolozsvar.
So, by conversing a
little further the other couple was Nyerges Mityu and wife and she got their
email which I used to connect with Mityu and after that with Dozsa Feri.
It was that that led
to my connecting with Jakobszen Csaba.
It seems like such a
crazy coincidence that after an absence of close to sixty years you connect
with people you knew a long time ago.
I call it like taking
a rifle, fire in a random direction and hitting the bullseye ten miles away.
Going back into
ancient history, my brother and I attended MSB from 1952 to 53 and it was a
good experience.
I started learning
English when we lived in Germany after WWII and as coincidence would have it at
age 11 I happened to be the only person on that plane that flew us from Munich
to Maiquetia.
Even though you might
call my English not broken but fractured it suggested to my dad that learning
English might be a good thing.
That was the main
reason for attending MSB and the effort was a resounding success.
A total immersion into
having to speak the language but it was also motivated by Fr. Bernard who was a
stickler about learning a correct English.
I have to give Fr.
Bernard a lot of credit for learning good English.
I have a feeling that
it was my brother and I who might have started the Hungarian Mafia at MSB as I
am not aware of other Hungarians before us.
I don’t remember any
special experiences or circumstances when we started the school other than the
fact that it was more disciplined than Venezuelan schools and the language was
English.
Had to get used to
that.
One event that I
remember rather clearly was that one of the DeLima brothers was trying to
needle and provoke me all the time and he wound up with one of his buddies, Lee
Kit, provoking me to fight.
He started it and I
was not quite prepared for it so he had me for a while but then I turned the
fight around and had him pinned on the ground and was ready to really clobber
him.
The crowd around the
fight separated us and from that day on no more taunts and provocations.
The two of us lasted a
year at MSB and went back to Venezuela and continued our studies at Liceo
Andres Bello.
I also have a
suspicion that our parents knew each other but we lived at the time in Los
Teques and that was a hurdle to a closer friendship.
Too late for asking
them as they are gone.
A lot of water has
flowed down the river since 1957 and I found it refreshing and delightful to be
able to connect with MSB alumni and other Hungarians I knew when living in
Venezuela.
Under the present
circumstances it is not likely that I will travel that way again but if you
happen to be in the US or California we have an open door policy and a good
supply of fermented grape juice behind it.
It would be nice to
have a conversation over some good wine.
I hope that it
happens, so in the meantime, best wishes.
Sanyi
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laszlo kertesz <kertesz11@yahoo.com>
Jan 25 at 9:39 AM
Hi Alex,
Nice video.
I am going to send you
today’s Circular Newsletter so that you may connect up to the Blog and enjoy
memories.
It is No. 950 after
close to 20 years of weekly editions
I need a favor from
you.
Can you write a few
lines recounting your first day at school??
Did you fly to Piarco?
Who was waiting for you at the airport?
Do you remember Fr.
Bernard??
Did you start at Prep
B or Prep A??
And any other stories
that might remember and make you write, hahaha?
Szia
Laci
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From: david Decastro
Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2013 5:21 AM
Click on document to
read.
Here is the story about the
exorcism --from my book --if anybody wants to buy my book --let me know --only
$15.00 including postage can. or us -"bandit
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