Thursday, September 24, 2015

Wuxi Expat Double Saint Archduke Sir Harry Moore Emeritus Plans to Do Popular Film Lectures in Smaller Venues.


It is a rare human being indeed who has the opportunity to talk about one of his side interests to a massive crowd of over a million people and then have the crowd engage in acts of mass euphoria as a result of his talk.

It is even a rarer person indeed who chooses to stop engaging with large crowds full of millions of admirers who live and breath on every word he says, even the conjunctions,  prepositions and interjections.

And so Wuxi Expat Double Saint Archduke Sir Harry Moore Emeritus further added to his status as the second all time greatest person of human history -- first greatest of all humans who aren't divine -- when he announced he will give his massively popular film lectures in smaller venues.

"After all these years of lecturing in squares and stadiums capable of holding a million plus people, I plan to deliver my lectures on films in smaller venues, like arenas normally used for basketball or ice hockey matches, and then further scale down to my favourite venue:  the classroom, where there will be forty students tops!" said the Archduke, a seven time inductee into the Wuxi Expat Hall of Fame, at a press conference held before 75,000 assembled members of the media at the Bar Square of Just-a-Soso's pub in Wuxi's Nanchang Jie Bar Street district.

Responding to anguished members of the media, who hadn't at first fainted when hearing his announcement and who wanted to know why he was scaling down the number of possible lecture attendees, the Archduke, who is the only person who to be canonized by the Catholic Church while still alive and twice at that, said:  "It is darn hard to do a Q&A after my lectures because of the dancing and shrieking, and I can never get someone to ask me an question that isn't fawning and sycophantic.  I think in a classroom on a weekday morning -- a better time of the day than Friday and Saturday evening --I may have a thoughtful question from a lecture attendee."

The Archduke, who is a Nobel Prize Winner in literature, cinema and economics, gave an explanation that seemed to satisfy all of the media and they thus were able to quickly regain their composure.  But controversy momentarily erupted as the co-leader of the Wuxi Expatdom Sexpat-Feminist Alliance, Deloris Morris ran at the Archduke and asked why he was banning women, with the exception of former Alaska State governor Sarah Palin,  from his lectures.  The Archduke, who did commentary tracks for the Lawrence of Arabia film special edition DVD in seven languages fluently, responded by saying:  "I don't know what it is about young and older female students but they keep interrupting my lectures by blowing kisses at me, taking off their clothes for me, asking me to marry them, or screaming and fainting like the times I was performing concerts with my mates John, Paul, George and Ringo in the first half of the nineteen-sixties."

After some thought, Morris said that the answer of the Archduke, who is the only Australian to quarterback a Super Bowl winning team, to her question made sense and she apologized to the Archduke.  She then said that she was mistaken to have been a feminist and announced her conversion to the Catholic Church.

Reaction from  leaders and important religious personages around the world to the announcement of the Archduke, who with his wife Mrs Miss Moneypenny were the first people to make love on the Moon, was swift and very understanding, once they heard what the Duke, who is the first human to have stepped on the surface of Mars, had to say.  Pope Benedict XVI, the one world figure to have not fainted when he heard the news, praised the Archduke's decision.  "Harry -- and I call him that because he is my best friend -- is the only person I know who is capable of taking the mass adulation he has received in stride.  Harry Moore is a real Jimmy Stewart ah-shucks kind of guy.  That is, if Jimmy Stewart is as he seems to be in his films.  But there is always the worry that some demagogic imitator, a Julien Felsenburgh or Barack Obama type, will try to imitate my friend Harry's accomplishments. So Harry, the master of prudence that his is, has made a very prudential decision. God Bless him!"

The announcement of the Archduke, whose film Machismo Unleashed has to date grossed over 19.64 trillion dollars at the box office, had immediate repercussions for the 2016 U.S. presidential race.  Many experts speculate that Wisconsin Scott Governor Scott Walker's surprising decision to bow out of the the race was really due to his desire to have one of the 40 coveted seats for Moore's Film Studies seminar which starts at Wuxi's Southern Yangtze University in February 2016, the same time actual votes in primaries will be cast.  Many observers also believe that Donald Trump's boast that he had "two great seats, front and center," for Moore's lecture would finally remove any semblance of loyalty that hithereto devoted Trump followers had had for the Donald.

When asked about who could register in his film lectures course and what he thought of the Donald's boast, the Archduke, whose book The Poolside Harry Moore is only second to the Holy Bible for total worldwide sales, said:  "The course is open to the truly deserving of good will and personal sanctity whether they be rich or poor, Jew or Gentile, black or yellow or brown or white, old or young, naturist or nudist, Democrat or Republican, and born in a even-numbered year or an odd-numbered year of our lord, just as long as they aren't fans of that horrible Quentin Tarrantino and his ilk who like to make pornography, whether sexual or violent.  Donald, who I have lent money to on a few occasions, is welcome to submit an application to take the course. Though if he is as rich as he says he, he won't be eligible for a scholarship...  And he could give me back the money he owes me!  Not that I need it, mind you.  I would give the money to charity, build a couple children's hospitals.  But there is a principle at stake here!"

The Archduke, whose two kilometer tall, gold-encrusted statue graces the grounds of the Wuxi Expatdom Vatican Annex, will hold his final arena film lecture in Brandon, Manitoba, Canada's Keystone Center in January.  The Archduke, who is considered a hero to Shanghai Expats and Suzhou Expats because of his efforts to teach them to use the wheel, make fire and  wear shoes, told WCE blogspot that he had fond memories of singing with WCE Inspector Harry Callahan at the Keystone Center at the 2009 World Expatdom Vision Song Contest.  "I hope I don't sound boastful, but it was truly sublime to be singing a duet with Callahan while accompanied by the soulful and jazzy strummings of the WCE Trio, music arranged by Nelson Riddle and Hans Klingerer, with of course, Archbishop Makarios providing back up vocals!"

7 comments:

  1. I was one of the four million on the Isle of Mann in '75 who listened enraptured to Moore!s comments on Lawrence or Arabia and Dr. Zhivago. It gives me such wonderful street card with my grandchildren who never tire of my telling them about it

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  2. I was in Altamount in '77 with 8 million others as Harry talked about McQueen in the Cinncinatti Kid. The conga line afterwards must have been 26 miles long!

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  3. I'll give you back the money I owe you.

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  4. I forgot the name of it, but I was at that very big football stadium in Rio de Janeiro with at least 10 million others. Sir harry was talking about the boys from Brazil and flying down to Rio. I believe it was in about 1980. ever since that day has been a national holiday in Brazil.

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  5. Is it really that hard to get a million people to listen to a talk about film?

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  6. Roberty-Bobbity from RostockSeptember 28, 2015 at 4:18 AM

    I listened to the Archdukes' 185-minute lecture on the dialogue-line
    "Take your hands off me, you rotten ape!"

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  7. I was there when Jane Fonda visited my junior college in 1972! ... By the way, when I was an expat in Japan (1980 - 1995), the internet was not yet big like it is now, so we couldn't set up a blog like yours. If we could have, we would have. By now, we would be big, big, big -- we would blow you guys out of the water. 日本帝国万歳!

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