Darlings -- You are "darlings" now. I use the phrase the way Ben Stone used "sir," as the highest compliment or one of the most derisive.
Duke Ellington, most possibly gay, always told his entire audience, "I love you madly." I've joined him. My audiences are all my darlings, my loved ones, even if, by chance, men like William Clinton and Jesse Jackson sit amongst them.
That's my obligatory position as an entertainer, a priest of love. A former agent of mine attended my cabaret act in Manhattan and left saying, “I felt I’d been made love to by a professional.” Apropos of that, Tristan Bernard, the great French genius, described a “critic” as a “virgin who tries to teach a whore how to make love.”
However as an actor who portrayed a prosecuting attorney in moot court before a jury made up of the entire American viewing public, I can't love like Duke did. I have to call it as I see it and I've made myself a defending lawyer for the unborn victims of wholesale abortion, am doing so in a civil/criminal suit which, if our ostensible leaders have any common sense at all, will be brought before and into the well of the Supreme Court where the judicial crime of Roe v. Wade was first committed in 1972. The minute they accepted the “scientific” lobby’s division of gestation into the three parts of “trimester thinking,” they started killing the innocents right there. It was the court of King Herod. Maybe, in their Marxist thinking, they didn’t want anymore Judeo-Christians until they entirely controlled all of education. They will teach the children of the New World Order to worship a God called Society, which Maggie Thatcher point-blank said didn’t exist. Society is a delusion. There are only individuals and their families exactly like the Hudsons of Warsaw, Illinois. It's not for nothing that Dick Wolf, the producer of Law and Order, called me, Michael Moriarty, the conscience of the entire series. Now that I'm gone, people, including the New York Times, are saying none of it, including its spin-offs, are what it used to be.
I’m known more as Ben Stone than as Michael Moriarty. Ironically, the division over ten years between myself and an old role I played is being eradicated. All I learned in that college of New York State and City justice is now at play in my soul, and, by gum, I’m going to work.
So, my darling ... family, I love you madly, not only as a precious member of my audience but as members of my divinely Christian family.
Love,
Ben Stone, your brother in Christ