![]() ![]() They rent a small cluttered, nondescript space, a piano and place an ad. They’re having trouble getting work, and they decide to bring on a singer. They’re quintessential Seattle characters, drifting, never talking too much about where they are or where they want to go. In this movie The Baker brothers, Jeff and Beau Bridges, work together playing piano duets at middle level Seattle hotels, bars and so on. There’s a wonderful 1989 movie, THE FABULOUS BAKER BOYS, made in Seattle, that makes my point. It’s a place where people come to reinvent themselves, and if you watch carefully, they actually do it. ![]() I love writing about Seattle’s eccentricities, its quirks, its unique culture, its vibrant street life, the kids who are trying to create a place for themselves, the high school children in the young Shakespeare workshop producing his plays outside in public places, like a market, all summer long, the fresh fish vendors throwing fish for sale in the Pike Place Market, the gum wall – the long brick wall covered in used chewing gum, the outrageous wondrous things that so many people do, without calling attention to it. ![]()
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