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...AUTOGRAPH HOUND by JOHN LAHR 239 pages. Knopf...
Read one way, maybe the wrong way, The Autograph Hound is a cliche checklist of comic Americana. It's set near Times Square (funny on the face of it, no?), and much of the action passes in an Italian restaurant where the Puerto Rican headwaiter is tricked out to look like a cowboy. The autograph hound is Benny Walsh, a busboy at a big Broadway restaurant called the Homestead. His girl friend Gloria burbles about cottages for two, aspires to break into show biz, but acts in skin flicks. What Aristotle would call the complication is simplicity itself: Benny...
...material that helps the writer up Parnassus. John Lahr is a fine writer and a theater critic of enviable intelligence, however. His laudable aim is merely to provide a bit of fun. Lahr, 31, is best known for his marvelous biography of his father, Bert Lahr. In The Autograph Hound, one-liners accumulate. Someone tells Benny that cooking is just like life. "Cooking's not like life," he snaps. "If you get a bad meal, you don't have to eat it." The corrupt union leader is mod. He's written for Management News and he "goes...
...virtual prisoner. He could scarcely venture out even to the National City Christian Church without risking an encounter with angry youths chanting, "Hey, hey, L.B.J., how many kids did you kill today?" Yet, as the funeral service ended last week, small groups of young people came forward seeking the autograph of Dean Rusk. The incident suggested that the bitterness of the nation's longest war was just beginning to fade, and as President Nixon said in announcing the ceasefire: "No one would have welcomed this peace more than...
...them each time with the same slightly shy authenticity, she posed with her arms around them like a big sister, as if she was proud to be in every picture. Using the back of one of the girls for an arm-rest. She wrote each girl a warm personal autograph: "With Love, to Cindy, Angel Y. Davis... To Karen in the struggle. Angela Y. Davis...