My Katonah! Part 2 (With apologies to The Knack)

How far overboard can one person go with the search for occult meaning? Pretty far actually…

 

Besides Guy of Viennes, Francis III, Duke of Brittany had the dolphin and fleur de lis in his coat of arms.

Those symbols in the grey spaces? That's ermine.

  So we have blue dolphins, feur de lis and ermine in EWS and in this one coat of arms. Not to get all 'Da Vinci Code' on you but Da Vinci was brought in to design the decorations for young Frank's christening. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis,_Dauphin_of_France_%281518-1536%29)
   He died at the age of 18 and there's a lot to his story that I want to research. Including the fact that he figured into a 1956 film called 'Diane' starring Lana Turner. It was directed by David Miller. He also directed 'Lonely Are The Brave' starring Kirk Douglas with the screenplay by Dalton Trumbo. And let's not forget he directed Kirk's buddy Burt Lancaster in the JFK assassination conspiracy film 'Executive Action'. Also written by Dalton Trumbo.
   Kirk's epic picture, 'The Vikings' had some scenes filmed at a castle in Brittany. Gilles de Rais, the infamous Bluebeard was imprisoned in Brittany.

So how does this figure in with EWS? Well, I went to Google and searched on blue dolphin and New York. One of the results was the Blue Dolphin restaurant in Katonah, NY.

 http://thebluedolphinny.com/Welcome.html

   Nice little town, Katonah. It is home to the Montfort Academy, named after  Saint Louis-Marie Grignion de Montfort, born in the Duchy of Brittany.
   It's also home to George Soros, the one many think is the model for the Szandor Szavost character in EWS who utters the line "I'm Hungarian."
   The Blue Dolphin has a sister restaurant called Le Fontane. It's in the nearby town of Somers.
It resides on Somerstown Road. The directions on their site http://lefontane.net/directions puts the restaurant at 137 Somers Town Road (Rt.100 & Rt.139).

 See where I'm going?

100 + 137 = 237 as in Room 237
100 + 139 = 239 the approximate runtime of EWS is 2:39

Want more fun? Rainbows figure a lot into EWS, Google Rainbow and Katonah and get Rainbow International. There's a Fidelio Dentistry and Somers Manor Nursing Home. Which is near the IBM facility in Somers (HAL anyone?).

The Shining takes place at the Overlook Hotel.

Remember that creepy Bear suit guy?

Here's a link for the Overlook Lodge at Bear Mountain in Katonah.

http://www.hotels.com/ho340754/overlook-lodge-at-bear-mountain-katonah-united-states/


There's also a Bear Mountain State Park nearby. Kubrick and Bears is the subject of a future blog but there's plenty out on the web about it.

 Last but not least a friend of mine discovered this, in EWS at roughly
the 2:30 mark, Bill and Alice are in the toy store. To the left of Alice is a stuffed bear with a doll's arm protruding from it's lap like a subliminal erection.

I don't know if Kubrick ever visited Katonah or Somers and I can't understand why a town would intentionally create this many Kubrick connections so it's all coincidence.

Later...