UKUZALWA EMI PHANTSI: UBOMI BOMDLALO
Ngu Steve Martin
Scribner, amaphepha angama-207, iidola ezingama-25
… Ukonwaba bekuya kuba kukuphulukana nokuzonwabisa okujolise ekungabinakufikelela kumdlalo ohlekisayo. —USteve Martin
Ukuhlekisa akumnandi. Ekuphakameni kwempumelelo yakhe njengomntu ohlekisayo (izihlwele ezingama-45,000), uSteve Martin wabandezeleka ngenxa yokudakumba, ukudinwa kunye nesizungu sendlela. Ngo-1981, phezulu kwe-roller coaster, wahamba, waya kumabhayisikobho. Ukubhalela bona, kunye ne ENew Yorker , phakathi kwezinye izinto. Ulunge kakhulu kuyo; uyakuvuyela ukufunda. Kodwa le memoir, omnye urhanela, yinto yomlingo. Njengokungathi uSteve Martin ufikelele kwisigqubuthelo sobugqi sakhe kwaye endaweni yomvundla, wakhupha uSteve Martin.
Ngandlel 'ithile le ncwadi ayisiyombali, kodwa yincwadi engobomi bomntu, uyasixelela, kuba ndibhala ngomntu endandimazi ngaphambili. Ewe, ezi ziganeko ziyinyani, kodwa ngamanye amaxesha zazibonakala ngathi zenzekile komnye umntu. Ewe, uMnu.Martin wasebenzisa eyakhe indawo yokugcina (uneengcali zokugcina ulwazi) kwaye wenza udliwanondlebe nabahlobo bakudala ngelixa ebhala, ngokungathi uphanda omnye umntu-umntu ongasoloko ethetha naye. Wazalelwa Emile ayisiyiyo yonke into, kukuxela, isenzo esilawulwayo nesilungileyo sesityhilelo. Ngoku uyambona. Kwaye emva koko, xa engakufuni, awufuni.
Ewe, uMnu.Martin uza kuxelela abaphulaphuli bakhe, ndi… ndingumntu wasendle nongenangqondo. Ukanti uMnu.Martin akazange abe sendle kwaye uphambene, yayinguSteve Martin kuphela. Uyindalo ebonakalayo ye-cerebral Geppetto. Okubonakala ngathi kukuphambukela kwinqanaba, sifunda kule ncwadi, yayisisiphumo sokubala okungapheliyo kwesibini, ukuzijonga ngokwakho kunye nokuhlaziywa kwe-akhawunti emva kohlolisiso lwenyani. Ewe, njengomlingo omncinci, wayegcina iirekhodi ezintle zendlela nganye yegegi edlala ngayo emva komboniso wam wasekhaya weCub Scouts okanye iKlabhu yaseKiwanis.
Uqala ukujonga emva kobusuku obufumileyo bangoMvulo ngehlobo lowe-1965 eSan Francisco, xa wayeneminyaka engama-20 ubudala, kwaye ukusuka apho waphindaphinda ebuntwaneni bakhe, esazisa abantu le ncwadi inikezelwe kubo: utata wakhe (umdlali weqonga u-manqué owayenomsindo ongenangqondo ngonyana owayefana naye), umama wakhe (i-clotheshorse owayethanda ifashoni) kunye nodadewabo. Ndakhe ndeva kusithiwa ubunzima bobuntwana bunokukhokelela kubomi kwezobugcisa. Ndikuxelela eli bali likabawo kunye nam ukuba sikwazise ukuba ndikulungele ukuba ngumhlekisi, ubhala, esebenzisa uburharha ukuthomalalisa uxinzelelo.
Umama wakhe (obizwa ngokuba nguMama) notata (obizwa ngokuba nguGlenn, nkqu nangabantwana bakhe) bayakuhlala ngasemva emva kwesahluko sokuqala, kodwa baphinde bavele amaxesha ngamaxesha, kanye njengoko benokwenza kuhlalutyo lwengqondo. Ukuphuma kwam endlwini nge-18, uMnu Martin ubhala, kunqabile ukuba ndifowunele ekhaya ndikhangele abazali bam okanye ndibaxelele ukuba ndiqhuba njani. Ngoba? Impendulo iyandothusa njengoko ndiyibhala: Bendingazi ukuba kufanelekile. Nangona kunjalo, ekuhambeni kwexesha uyaxolelana nangakumbi, uyonwabisa umama wakhe ngabantu bakhe abadumileyo, ukuba ayisiyiyo italente. Ubhala ezakhe izinto, utshilo kudliwanondlebe. Ndihlala ndimxelela ukuba ufuna umbhali omtsha. Uyise, naye, uxelele iphephandaba lasekuhlaleni ukuba NgoMgqibelo ebusuku yeyona nto yoyikekayo kumabonwakude. Iidiliya ezimuncu, ngokuqinisekileyo. Xa wabetha ixesha elikhulu, uMnu.Martin waqesha utata wakhe njengomthengisi, kwaye wanika umama wakhe isibonelelo sempahla esimonwabisayo. Emva kwexesha, uya kubalisa utyelelo lwakhe lokugqibela kunye nabo, ke ukuphela kwale memoir, isenzo sakhe sokuma siphelile, kwaye nabazali bakhe baswelekile.
UKUVELA KWAKHE kokuqala ukuhlekisa kwakukwimoto yosapho, emamele unomathotholo, nakwigumbi lokuhlala losapho, ebukele umabonwakude: Bob Hope, Abbott noCostello, uAmos ’n’ Andy, uJack Benny, uLaurel noHardy, iRed Skelton. Ngeminyaka eli-10 ubudala, wayenomsebenzi wakhe wokuqala kwi-showbiz-ethengisa iincwadi zesikhokelo e-Disneyland-apho wagqibela khona ukufumana umsebenzi wakhe wamaphupha: esebenza kwi-Merlin's Magic Shop, apho wadibanisa isenzo. Kwakusemva kwesitolo seMerlin seMagic Shop apho wabona i-postcard yaseJapan echazwe iinyawo ezonwabileyo (ibonisa iinyawo zesibini esithandanayo, esinye isibini sikhombisa, enye phantsi), igama eliza kuthi kamva linike umdaniso wakhe omnandi we-nut. Ngeli xesha, ukubonwa komzimba kuye kwabaluleka kuye njengokuthamba.
Okwangoku, yayise vaudeville, kwaye ezifundisa i-banjo ngokucotha iirekhodi zebanjo kwi-turntable yam kwaye ndikhetha iingoma ngenqaku, ukusuka apho ukuya ekholejini, apho wayefunda khona ifilosofi kwaye wayecinga ukuba ngumfundi. Ebusuku ebhedini, wayephulaphule iirekhodi ezihlekisayo: uNichols noMeyi, uLenny Bruce, uTom Lehrer. Kwaye ke uMnu.Martin waba liqhula lwethiyori. Ufumanise ukuba umdlalo ohlekisayo unokuvela. Iikhonsepthi zakhe ezisesikweni zazibandakanya umbono wokuvela ngokupheleleyo, umbono wokuba yonke into eyenzekileyo yenzekile kuye, kunye nembono yokuba yi-avant-garde.
Isenzo siqinisiwe, utsho. Kuyinyani ukuba andinakukwazi ukucula okanye ukudanisa, kodwa ukucula okuhlekisayo kunye nokudanisa ngokuhlekisayo yayenye into. Isishwankathelo, wayengumlobi kunye nomdwebi wokushicilela esebenzela umdlali weqonga owayedlala umntu ohlekisayo: ndandingumonwabisi owayedlala ukonwabisa.
Kunye nempumelelo enkulu, awayesebenza kuyo njengedemon, uthando lwaluza kubiza apha naphaya. Umnumzana Martin unamagama anobubele kuphela (kunye nenkcazo entle maxa wambi) yezincamathiselo zakhe, ephethe nje imimoya engemnandanga kulowo ungasekhoyo uJohn Frankenheimer, owebile intombi kaMnumzana Martin umnandi uMitzi Trumbo- kwaye, kwiminyaka engama-20 kamva, wabetha ngelo xesha- Umfazi, uVictoria Tennant ococekileyo. Okwexeshana, uMnu.Martin ubhalele umabonwakude, wenza umdlalo ohlekisayo kwimiboniso yasemva kwemini, kwaye waqhekeka kwimbalasane Umboniso wangokuhlwa nje kwaye NgoMgqibelo ebusuku .
Okokugqibela kwakuyimithombo enqabileyo yolonwabo kuye, njengoko kwakusebenza nomlawuli uCarl Reiner, awenza naye ifilimu yakhe yokuqala, IJerk (1979). Ihlabathi lokwenza imovie lalinditshintshile, ubhala. UCarl Reiner ugijime iseti evuyayo. Ekugqibeleni.
Ukuba bendizokunika umntu le ncwadi, ndingalingwa ukuba ndibandakanye iDVD ye Konke okwam , Umboniso bhanyabhanya uMnu Martin awenza ngo-1984 kunye noLily Tomlin kunye noNks Tennant, kunye noMnu. Ingcamango kukuba uNksz Tomlin, i-heiress eyonakeleyo, emhlophe, kunye ne-heiress, ihlala emzimbeni kaMnumzana Martin-isiqingatha sayo. Umdlalo wakhe ohlekisayo apha uyamangalisa ngokwenene. Ekupheleni kwefilimu, yena kunye noNks Tomlin badanisa kunye ku-All of Me, kwaye ulandelelwano lonwabile kwaye luyathandana njengayo nantoni na oya kuyibona. Kubukeka, kunjalo, ngokuzenzekelayo. Awunakho ukuyifunda le ncwadi kwaye unganqweneli uSteve Martin into efanayo ebomini bokwenyani: uvuyo kunye neenyawo ezonwabileyo.
UNancy Dalva, umbhali omkhulu ku2ezibini, uphononongo lweencwadi rhoqo Inkqubo ye-Obumncedisi. Unokufikelelwa kwi-ndal va@observer.com.
