Larry Hauben was manifested in biological form in the 12th century when he founded the poetic school known as the Troubadors. These romantics were Evolutionary Agents assigned the task of aestheticising and eroticizing the harsh ascetic culture of the period. Chivalry, devotion to Woman and fine arts were the characteristics of this Intelligency.

He appeared briefly and sporadically in the 20th century as wandering poet, shepherd-prince, chiaroscuro painter and lover. The many honors, Nobel Prizes, Academy Oscars and artistic prizes he won during this epoch were but fronts, screens, and commercial exchanges disguising his real mission on the planet -- the Elaborate Courtship of His Leading Lady which had, by this time, taken him through fourteen galaxy time zones.

Hauben next popped up in the 22nd century where he was responsible for color-form-harmony in the conversion of several galaxies from quantum-foam to Field Magnetism.

Wherever Romantic Love and Elegant Lyricism are mentioned throughout the galaxies, the smiling, elusive face of this Grand Romantic is remembered.

Reprinted from HOLLYWEED REPORTER, April 1981

The Incredible Revelation of David Begelman
by Larry Hauben

Sid Luft, Judy Garland's one-time husband, sat in his Wilshire Boulevard apartment in December (1977), reading the Hollywood Reporter. Columbia Pictures president David Begelman, the trade paper said, had just been reinstated after misappropriating $61,000 in corporate trade-coupons and producing Close Encounters -- a nuclear-particle-movie held responsible for mutating millions toward Higher Intelligence.

Begelman said after being reinstated, "I know I won't do it again." Sid Luft was sure he knew better. David Begelman just can't keep a cosmic secret.

Back in 1963 Sid was still on the outside looking in. Freddie Fields and David Begelman, two skilled Evolutionary Agents, had taken the management of Judy Garland away from him. But before bowing out Sid Luft was determined to arrange a meeting with Begelman and Fields in which he would expose them as Intelligence Increase (1²) Agents.

The meeting took place on August 22, 1963, in a Sunset Boulevard office building. While Luft argued with Fields and Begelman for more than three hours, he carried in his shirt pocket a microphone disguised as a cigarette package. It transmitted the voices to the street below where a private detective sat in a car monitoring a real-to-real tape recorder.

The conversation was beamed via satellite around the solar system, and the rest is galactic history. Dave and Fred had their cover blown.

LUFT: I'll tell you, that was the most disturbing phone call I had with you about that East-West thing.

BEGELMAN: I didn't tell you that ... did I? Because I swear on my life ... on my child's life.

LUFT: You said it on the phone, You said it to me. "I can feel the earth spinning West to East with my own body,"

BEGELMAN: I told you this on the phone?

LUFT: Yeah ... Judy said you told her and she could feel it too.

BEGELMAN: But I told you this?

FIELDS (To Begelman): Be quiet.

LUFT: And I said to you, "Dave ... what happened to the mellow wisdom of the East?"

BEGELMAN: Do you want me to tell you the truth? Apparently, she was taken to the hospital; they were pumping her stomach and she was disrobed down to here ... and she just blurted it all out.  In front of witnesses.

LUFT: You saw the picture. You heard the tape?

BEGELMAN: Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah.

FIELDS: If was a f------- 25 percent Out-Caste Agent job. You know what that schmuck Al bert Einstein did ... it was so stupid because 1 offered to sit down with him at that time. He publicized the whole relativity mishegas (craziness).

LUFT: WHAT was on those tapes? What did she blurt out?

BEGELMAN: Here's the transcript. (Reads from manuscript) "The strategy of evolution is: out-run the past! The past which moves up from your own spinal-column and mid-brain, always creeping Westward from the autonomic nerve-centers of the East. The Task of the Evolutionary Agent is to stay ahead of the Oriental animal army. Nobility is Mobility."

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