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...visitor to O'Rourke's pub in Chicago's Old Town had no trouble recognizing most of the poster-size photographs on the walls: James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Brendan Behan, Sean O'Casey, George Bernard Shaw. But whose was the mildly cherubic visage staring out of the sixth photo? "Oh," said the barkeep without elaboration, "that's Roger . . . you know, Roger Ebert...
...From there I'd planned to get to Dublin and then on to Galway, where, I'm told, I will find relatives--whose existence I have previously been quite unaware of--but who have nonetheless managed to acquire a hotel and are, surprisingly enough, getting on. Well, seeing Brendan Behan's The Hostage at the Loeb a few nights ago almost changed all that. Though I'm sure my second cousin's hostel cannot be half as entertaining as the brothel in which Behan's play is set (in fact, to judge from those of my relatives who came...
...Hostage by Brendon Behan opens at Loeb Drama Center; Harvard Summer School Repertory Theater production. There will also be productions of the Behan play on July 11, 12, 15, 21, 24, 26, 29, 30, August 4, 8, 9 13,, 19. Tickets and details from Loeb Box Office, 64 Brattle Street, phone...
...Anthony Burgess is not merely a specialist with some painfully acquired, crotchety expertise in, say, lesser metaphysical lyrical poets. His intelligence functions at all levels on a list of subjects that includes Dickens, Kipling, Sartre, Greene, Waugh, Koestler, Milton, "The Writer As Drunk" (Dylan Thomas and Brendan Behan), Shaw, Joyce, pornography and Anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss...
Pigeon kickers may find its meanness of spirit a trifle overdone, but readers who have long cherished a shy yearning to beat up crippled newsboys will be delighted with Keith Waterhouse's new comic novel. It is possible, of course, to write gaily about any abomination-Brendan Behan turned out two successful stage comedies about men who were to be executed in the morning, neither with a happy ending-but it is hard to recall anything quite like Waterhouse's merry laughter at his main character's torment...