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ALSO IN THE HOUSE is Moe Axelrod, the boarder, a small time drifter laden with a heart of coal. His leg was shot off in the Great War, and he is as bitter as we expect him to be: he clumps about the apartment in his double-breasted pinstripe suit and porkpie hat, spouting off a ridiculous agglomeration of cynical street idiom: "You ain't sunburned. You hoid...
...regional theater standards, ranging from fair to good. The Huntington's style puts quite a bit of weight on the actor's shoulders, and generally they dig into their melodramatic motivations with not a trace of self-consciousness. Particularly good is Gary Sloan, who keeps the part of Moe Axelrod from sliding into a hysterical morass of cliche and mannerism. How he can deliver lines to the woman he's in love with like "I wrote my name on you. I'm indelible ink" with a straight face is beyond me, but he does...
...band members credit saxophonist Hill with much of the group's developing style. "A good sax is like a vitamin," Axelrod says...
...Both Axelrod and Wright admit that the band has made it hard for them to do their academic life credit. "We've gone at such a pace in the Rhythm Method it's taken up all our time," Axelrod says...
...adds that he doesn't regret the committment. Axelrod says he considers the band the best extracurricular activity he could have ever done...