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SOME OF THE smaller characters illustrate the quality that Ricardo and Bangs lack. Paul Seltzer as the disbelieving doctor, Hope Brokman as a jilted secretary and Dorothy Meyer as a barroom pick-up all have flamboyantly intriguing people holding up their perfect faces. These personalities can support director Steven Glovsky's fetish for unneccessarily broad and stylized gestures, which hang ridiculously on most of the other characters...
...wright from "Bonanza"--wrote and directed the first episode "Love Came Laughing." Reunited for the leads were Bonnie Bedelia and Michael Brandon, the newlyweds of "Lovers and Other Strangers." Brandon plays an uncommitted and unemployed young cynic, who, tied to his hypochondriac mother, is slipping into an easy, sleazy barroom existence until Bedelia moves in alone on the first floor of his apartment building. She is lovely and she is willing, but, although not dying, she is five months pregnant by an old boyfriend. For a young love's trial by fire, this is probably the next best thing...
PATRICK SKY. When Cambridge's favorite folkie is good, he is very, very good. When he's tired, he's still pretty funny. Sky mixes traditional songs, barroom ballads, and some original romantic lyrics with hilarious political songs directed against everyone from Nixon to the Pope. His banjo and guitar playing is usually worth the price of admission. When he gets a friendly audience, his concerts are often minor classics...
With the death of De la Cruz, and another striker killed only two days earlier in an altercation with police outside a barroom, violence returned to the vineyards of the San Joaquin Valley as Chavez struggled to save the union that he had welded together in the late 1960s. Three years ago, Chavez seemed victorious. He had signed contracts with 150 vineyards-most of the major ones in the U.S.-and had begun to organize workers in other fields, such as lettuce and strawberries. The grape producers were still bitter, and eager to rid themselves of Chavez...
...Waiting for death, as the four characters in Endgame are, why not expire with a gag rather than a whimper? Gregory captures that aspect of Beckett that is too frequently scanted, his Gaelic gallows humor, his fascination with vaudeville turns, his boozy way with a monologue that is pure barroom oneupmanship...