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Amen-ide-ra and his woman Jora led four thousand desert tribesman in a successful revolt against a decadent, evil regime of Sheik lords. These two were essentially vagabonds of unusual wisdom. Their reign marked a golden era lost to historians. Eventually, Amen-ide-ra yielded to the call of the sands and, taking his sword and horse, rode into the sunrise. Jora and Amen saluted each other as one vagabond to another. Jora stayed to rule...
...Charlie Chaplin. When Limelight opened in June, it was to S.R.O. crowds. The film appeared only because Shanghai's Chaplin fans reluctantly allowed Modern Times to close after a six-month run. Another top attraction is Awara, an Indian melodrama about a disaffected youth who becomes a vagabond after being spurned by society. The film is something of a cult classic, particularly for former members of Chairman Mao Tse-tung's rampaging Red Guards, millions of whom were assigned to communes for re-education during the 1966-69 Cultural Revolution...
...Vagabond Missionaries played small-club dates, scored big in a local battle of the bands, eventually put their amps in shopping carts and carried them aboard the ferry, sailing for the big time. They got a gig at the Café Wha?, then soon went their separate ways. Johansen was the only one who never looked back...
Flanagan's forte is his cast-some of them historical characters, others fictive-each invested with a complex, fascinating personality. Here is the reluctant scribe of rebellion, Owen Ruagh MacCarthy, a vagabond poet who scrounges a living by running an outlaw school, reciting his Gaelic verses in the houses of the rich and pursuing neutral grain spirits and colleens with unflagging energy. Here, in the cool rationality of Moore Hall, is MacCarthy's fellow Catholic and countryman George Moore, historian of the French Revolution and Cassandra of its Irish offspring, dreading that "the spirit of Rousseau...
...know about what Rickie Lee calls "extensive education in music at home." Born in Chicago, hard by Wrigley Field, the third child of a couple "in the restaurant business" (which, from the ironic Jones argot, translates as "waiter and waitress"), Rickie Lee had a vagabond childhood. Her parents split up, reunited, drifted from state to state and job to job. Her father sang a lot, wrote his daughter a little tune called The Moon Is Made of Gold ("So don't feel bad because the sun went down/ The moon is made of gold"), which she includes...