Craig Glazer awaits the arrival of the Smartman for a bout of fisticuffs just outside the Beaumont Club in Westport in 2013.
Was a time, intellectual dinosaurs roamed the pages of KC Confidential…
Craig Glazer, Smartman, and a dude called Harley.
The most mysterious of the three – to me anyway – was the latter.
Many theories and/or guesses as to his true identity were put forth on the H man. At one point I strongly suspected Glazer. However when he reared his head after Craig’s demise, that theory went away.
What’s more, some KCC writers such as the illustrious Paul Wilson became so obsessed they went to great lengths to track Harley down and threatened to stop writing if he was allowed to continue commenting.
All of that said, guess who just weighed in on the comments section?
You got it.
To paraphrase former prez Ronald Reagan, here we go again…
In younger days…whem they were all still alive…
“Hey HC..
Ya miss me yet?
Been a long time but catch me downtown phoenix on
camelback.
Hope things are well down south.
Miss our rants and raves but don’t miss the boxman but
still have a place for glaze.
“Good times here. Waiting to see Stones in vegas in November.
all is well here..hope my fans are still online but your site looks
sparse. As far as AMC…made great money on their stock and
wish the durwoods were still running the place.
.
Hope you and #3 are doing well.
Best regards to you…my followers…my fans…my tribe and my groupies!
Harley”
Translation:
So the H man misses the Scribe, who doesn’t?
He says he doesn’t miss Wilson (but I don’t believe him – everybody loves an angry, aging white dude).
And Harley is like waaaaaaay over the hill if he’s getting off on seeing what’s left of the Rolling Stones. Why not just settle for spending homecoming weekend at John Knox Village?
Clearly the KCC s kinda sparse, but maybe we can make up in quality for the quantity.
Former AMC Theatres honcho Stan Durwood was indeed both a legend and a true character. I remember going up to him at one of AMC’s “Mingles” promotions at Ward Parkway and him cautioning me not to make him out for being “on the prowl” – which of course he probably was.
Unfortunately, Durwood died of cancer in 1999 and would be like 100 today (but probably still on the prowl). But would have had a tough time dodging the COVID bullet and living through the near death experience movie theaters are now navigating.
So, H…
If you’re half a man, message me your contact info and I’ll treat you to dinner and drinks at Houston’s in Phoenix.
Or as Joe Biden (and maybe Paul Wilson) might put it, C’mon man, let’s put this mystery to bed.
I thought Chuck was the box man.
Nah, Chuck is just Chuck…
He’s a hot tempered guy with a ton of passion who got mad at me a year or so ago (not for the first time) for reasons I could – and wouldn’t necessarily mind explaining.
Long story short he wrote a scathing comment which at the time I chose not to print, after I cut him ff from cursing me out when I was driving and asked him to hold off because one of my daughters was in the car.
I ‘m impressed by the indomitable inhuman spirit of the H-Man Rebooted. Please come home, all is forgiven.
That’s quite a concession coming from Dwight, H…
I remember when Paul Wilson was campaigning against you – wanting you banned and threatening to walk if you were not – and he was/is close with Dwight…yet Dwight, who wasn’t exactly thrilled by some of your prose, did not join in the Ban Harley movement
Wow. Memory lane. I really do miss the good, old days of KCC. CG putting his NFL teaser bets on favorites each week and more often than not just getting crushed. I used to be fairly confident he was Harley – just seemed too big a coincidence they would both disappear at the exact same time. But…. looks like it is a true mystery, right up there with who killed Kennedy. Who knows? It took decades for Deep Throat to be revealed – so there is always hope.
Except that Harley subsequently has returned a couple of times…
There were one or two obvious fake Harleys, but the real animal seems to be alive and kicking
Honest to God Hearne, you are like a band that repackages and re-releases the same Greatest Hits record over and over.
Ironic you would snark on the Stones given the above….
“Honest to God,” seriously?
Cutting edge use of the king’s english to try and make a point…
As to that “point,” there’s a big difference between me and a band that threw in the towel creatively several and are playing exclusively for the most part the same old, same old from the ’60s, 70’s and maybe ’80s.
While I’ll admit this particular column was a throw back, but triggered by the return of a rather well know character to many readers,
As for moi, well, I think it’s fairly apparent that I am combing the earth mostly for new material and takes far more often than not.
Which is why I’m still writing and being published by an area weekly even while I’m no longer living in the area.
But don’t get too carried away patting yourself on the back for using a dated expression to try and imply that I’m still living exclusively in the far-more-recent past AT WORST than your heroes the Rolling Stones.
Just sayin’
Nod the ‘Rolling Bones’, nee (gall?) ‘Stones’…
‘Ti-i-i- ime ain’t on your side, no it ain’t’