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...film version the actors are not actually there, the shock often fails to come through, the laughs often fail to come off. Still, there are a few bits of memorably daffy backchat (Trustee's son: "Mother has a head on her shoulders." Agent who knows the old battle-ax: "Absolutely! I have seen it"). And there is Kay Kendall...
...Dively of Harris-Intertype Corp.: "My lawyers tell me I must not say this or that-it might get us in trouble with Antitrust or the union, with the customers or the stockholders." Thus most speeches are prepared in committee, with lawyers, admen, public-relations men at hand to ax anything that could possibly offend anyone. Their rule of thumb: "If in doubt, be vague." The average speech is wrung through five to ten drafts, gets worse each time...
Needle Stab. After the fashion of Pirandello, Author Gelber takes an ax to the footlights, tries to smash all barriers between the play and its audience. Two characters in The Connection are moviemakers doing an avant-garde film of the supposedly real junkies in their pad, and another is the "author," who loses control of his characters, gets a fix himself and falls in drugged stupor while the actors continue on their own. One actor gestures toward a couple in the audience, says that there are other addicts, "people who worry so much-aspirin addicts, chlorophyll addicts-hooked worse than...
When at last he staggers in through his front door and deposits his load, the dachnik, instead of relaxing in an easy chair, must swing an ax or carry water: most dachas are heated with wood stoves, and the plumbing is openly arrived...
Splitting Hairs. In Spartanburg, S.C., police submitted a report after taking Joe Grier to the hospital: "Lacerated scalp. Ax fell off wall and hit Joe on the head. Joe's ax. Joe's head. No complaints. Investigation complete...