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...surprising in retrospect as it was to him at the time. Few books have so vividly portrayed the initial fragility of what now seem eternal works of dramatic writing. Schneider specifies some literate imbeciles who offhandedly dismissed the talents of Beckett, Harold Pinter and Eugene Ionesco. He recalls how Bert Lahr willfully misread Godot, trying to recast it as one of his old vaudeville routines. He depicts runaway egotism among the stars of Virginia Woolf, one conniving to get her husband hired in place of her leading man, another threatening to quit because everyone else in the cast was taller...
...been broken up, Walter Cronkite is no longer on the evening news. Throughout those changes, Coke was always there, a misty memory from childhood, a rock of ages. "Certain things in our psychological environment have to stay constant because we're in such a changing world," says Dr. Bert Pepper (no relation to the soft drink), a New York City psychiatrist. "Each of us has our favorite object of constancy. Many Americans have picked Coke." Adds Pepper: "People felt outraged and ripped off because there was an implicit and explicit contract between the Coke drinker and the company. There...
ERNIE AND BERT...
...unknowns have been cast in the leads. Laura Michelle Kelly, 23, has appeared in My Fair Lady for Mackintosh and on Broadway, but this is her first shot at originating a star role. Wiry 33-year-old Gavin Lee was even more of an outsider for the role of Bert, the chimney sweep. He auditioned to be an understudy, but Mackintosh identified him as "the real thing." He loves Bert and Mary's will-they-won't-they relationship. "The audience are desperate for them to kiss. Bert thinks she's" - he pauses, searching for the right word - "supercalifragilisticexpialidocious." With...
...Fire,” “Yesterday’s Feelings” and “Light With a Sharpened Edge,” are those that place in the foreground the lyrics that build this theme of transient life. On the other hand, when lead singer Bert McCracken belts out “I’m not listening” for 25 piercing seconds at the end of “Listening,” it does little to contribute to the album’s lyrical drive and at the same time repels listeners...