What Was New In 2007

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Two thousand and seven has been a bewildering year for this addled actor/pilot. My precious younger daughter, Heather, was taken from me by cancer, leaving a hole in my heart. She was the golden girl—filled with verve and love of life. Not surprisingly, she fought the good fight to hold on to her brief life. Her brief moment in the sun. I know that she must indeed be in a far better place. Both her mother and I... (cont.)

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I was too young, headstrong, willful and adventuresome to doubt for one millisecond the success of my plan. I would jump ship in Wellington, telephone the U.S. Embassy and tell them that we had a very eager would-be Spitfire pilot who would like to join the New Zealand air force. Then, I would tell them, "It's all right with the captain, if it's all right with the New Zealand authorities... (cont.)

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October 3, 2007 - Collingswood, New Jersey
Academy Award Winner Cliff Robertson to Receive National Aeronautic Association Award and to Attend 2007 Blue Angel Homecoming Air Show at the National Museum of Naval Aviation

Aviation enthusiast and commercial pilot, Academy Award Winner Cliff Robertson will be receiving the 2007 National Aeronautic Association (NAA) Wesley L. McDonald Elder Statesman of Aviation Award on October 29th.

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Serendipity, I suspect, means different things to different people. Webster refers to the heroes of the Per fairy tale, "The Three Princes of Serendip": "the gift of finding valuable or agreeable things not sought." Far be it for this stumbling writer to contest Mr. Webster's definition, but in my shallow brain, it refers to the unexpected with usually happy and positive results. I would say, looking back over my checkered career... (cont.)

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This column is a gamble. I'm writing it some two months before its due date. That in itself is a wonderment: that this writer/actor is not only writing something on its due date, but also well before the words go to press. It's a conjecture really, this column, for as I take pen to paper, it is a glorious spring day, one day before... (cont.)

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I am now a bachelor. Have been for some carefree years. Some might say it is a form of freedom. Some might say, "Count your blessings." Some might ask, "Aren't you lonely?" I must be honest. I enjoyed my married years, particularly when my two daughters, Stephanie and Heather, were growing up. Truth be known, now that they are grown, they are even more endearing... (cont.)

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May 8, 2007 - Collingswood, New Jersey
“IT IS NICE TO BE RESURRECTED . . . ” ACADEMY AWARD WINNER CLIFF ROBERTSON RETURNS AS “UNCLE BEN” IN SPIDERMAN 3

Cliff Robertson appears in “Spider-Man 3,” portraying “Uncle Ben” in third installment of the immensely popular franchise.

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Perhaps many of you fellow "greatest generation" (World War II) veterans recall earlier films from Hollywood starring the redoubtable W.C. Fields. W.C. Fields was not only a brilliant, irascible comic; he was also an original. He had a scathing, incisive eye on society and its foibles. Nothing was sacred to that former vaudevillian juggler. Like Mae West, another original from those Depression days, he had the courage of his very, very scathing... (cont.)

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I feel quite certain that more than one psychiatrist, psychologist or similar surveyor of mankind and his circuitous haunts attributes pilots' desire to fly as a subconscious desire to flee. To this addled actor, that seems like a rather obvious sophomoric explanation for our obsession. Hell, we could attribute any obsession to a desire to avoid many of earth's realities. But in my haunting Calvinist conscience, I would have to attribute at least some of my flying desires to... (cont.)

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Somewhere in my cloudy, fuzzy childhood memories, I recall reading or hearing the minister in our sleepy town of La Jolla, Calif., quoting a piece of wisdom and prophecy from the Bible. To wit: "The meek shall inherit the earth." Laying no claims to biblical wisdom, this one-time Calvinist attendee has become submerged of late in what I might call spectacles of mendacity... (cont.)

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Maybe it's my ears. Maybe it's my years. Maybe it's a new generation. "Whatever," as the young kids say. It's here, and maybe I should get used to it. It doesn't appear to be leaving any time soon... (cont.)

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Recently I came down with laryngitis. You don't "come up" with that distressing affliction! Typical of my hang-tough, fake macho denial, I ignored the obvious symptoms, continued on with my wide speech commitment, and finally had to bite the bullet: shut my big mouth (to the delight of many) and confine my speeches to a merciful few. Certain realities emerged from this suppression... (cont.)

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