\t\t\t\ti marched out to calvary feeling like a conquerer today. i have been in search of the burial site of Dominic Salvatore Rizzo (the fictional burial site) which appeared in the film \u201cMidnight Cowboy.\u201c i found it today, ending about 12 hours total of wandering the grounds, mostly directionless but finally arriving at a crux, a reliable crux, around which to focus my m\u00a3wanderings. basically i came down to a tree. a single tree which appeared to the right of Rizzo\u2018s head, and which partly obscured the Kosciuszko Bridge\/BQE, that tree is still htere 40+ years later, looking basically the same in shape and contour, so i walked the grounds in a diagonal line such as to keep the tree in place, in state.<\/p>\n
and that led me waaaay the hell out to section 8, far far far from where i expected to land.<\/p>\n
the cemetery scene in Midnight Cowboy is not as iconic as the funeral scene from the Godfather, but I became interested in it while watching the film and randomly spotting the scene filmed at Calvary. i did not know that another feature film besides The Godfather filmed a scene there. the cemetery is unnamed in the script and i find no reference to it on the public Intertubes.
\nit was fun. a tiny triumph for my tiny life.<\/p>\n
rachel henry<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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