11.20.12
Today, from the Love Blog of John McAfee
Today, from the Love Blog of ex-antivirus tycoon, John McAfee:
I met Timesha 2 years ago while writing a story about the Mennonites of Belize. The Mennonites are austere and hard working, yet each Friday, many of the men allegedly went to a local bar in Orange Walk, drank, paid women for sex, and partied. I found it hard to believe, so I arranged to take photos at the bar on Friday mornings to help with my story. I showed up for five weeks straight before I finally got the photo I wanted …
Timesha works as a “bar girl??? in lover’s bar. She is not a prostitute. She is young and pretty and men may sit with her providing they simply buy her a beer. When the beer is finished, they must buy another or leave the table.
Emphatically proving that America’s rich white guys who flee to Belize aren’t like you and me. They really, really go for the impoverished girls, among other things, apparently.
To Have and Have Not is a movie with Humphrey Bogart and a very young Lauren Bacall, a very very loose adaptation of Ernest Hemingway’s book of the same title, spottily rewritten for the screen by William Faulkner.
Briefly, it’s a poor man’s repeat of Casablanca, only Bogart gets the girl after being chased by the authorities in Vichy-controlled Martinique.
Bacall was 19 at the time. Bogart was 45 and the film capitalized on their romance in real life.
But The Hinterland isn’t quite the same thing. No Walter Brennan as the drunk buddy, for one thing.