This is an obscure family photo. It’s somebody on my mother’s side… let’s call him Ricky. Ricky is the one that liked Elvis. This picture is him 15 years before the Elvis concert that would change his life. That explains why he felt alienated from the rest of the family. Another reason he felt alienated was the way he said “family.” He liked to say it the way they would in the movie “The Godfather” but he said it that way long before Al Pacino ever did. You can see he's holding a typewriter, wearing a letter jacket and sporting a striped tie. A picture of what is probably his father hovers over is shoulder. That's because Ricky wants his father's approval at the same time as he wants to be a journalist by day and an actor by night. His father wanted him to get a business degree.
He isn't really typing: he never made it to that class. The letter jacket belongs to his friend, and that's NOT a dorm room, it's the farm where he's working off a debt to a farmer for a tractor that he crashed his car into when he was drunk during Christmas break. He hopes to keep up the farce long enough to actually get back into school and come home with a degree.
He isn't really typing: he never made it to that class. The letter jacket belongs to his friend, and that's NOT a dorm room, it's the farm where he's working off a debt to a farmer for a tractor that he crashed his car into when he was drunk during Christmas break. He hopes to keep up the farce long enough to actually get back into school and come home with a degree.
