Another Departed 1 from Brazil, Chacrinha

When I was a young teenager in Brazil, I had no clue there was a resistance going on around me. I just didn’t want to go back to my situation in Water Mill, NY because it was so dismal and abusive. I was looking for every way out even then. It APPEARED a career in entertainment would suit me and that it could be an escape.

FALSE.

I was hanging around Globo Studio in Rio and I did manage to get in to see a few shows and Chacrinha had a big 1. I didn’t speak to him but he knows how to get through to me for this.

Chacrinha was another 1 of us making a clown of himself.

Looking back, I realize the shows on tv in Brazil were all about this.

“Correct.”

I remember there was a soap opera on tv about Oedipus Rex. The people around me were attempting to get me to understand that Brazil needed revolution.

“The planet needs it.”

Chacrinha is a very kind soul and he is talking to me in Portuguese a little bit.

I see on your Google snapshot that you are credited with a phrase that goes - In television, nothing is created, it is copied.

Is that a reference to your inspiration??
”Yes.”

I see you wore Elvis’ kind of glasses which Elvis also told me to get.

“It’s his trademark.”

And you behaved like a ridiculous goofball which is my trademark.

“Exactly correct.’

Shocking.

The old warrior. Who is the old warrior who needs a break from all this??

This is what it was like.

Did you know I was in your audience??

“Yes.”

Chacrinha is very appreciated in Brazil.