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Harvard wide receiver Brian Barringer, who needs 10 grabs in Saturday's Harvard-Yale showdown to become the Crimson's all-time single-season receiving leader, would need to stand on a volcano to be a six-footer. He'd need to be riding Bertha the Elephant to weigh 185 pounds...
Half an hour before the beginning of the show named after Prairie Home, a cemetery in Moorhead, Minn., the theater doors open, and fans who have been waiting all afternoon in 99-degree heat file in, wearing T shirts advertising Powdermilk Biscuits and Bertha's Kitty Boutique. At the 15-minute mark Keillor wanders onstage, looking solemn, and tells everyone he does not believe in unsentimental farewells. He wants howling and lamentation, he says; he wants people to throw themselves on the floor and wrap their arms around his ankles. Yessir...
...goods--it's got an extra large head, and it drools a lot, just like you wanted. I used Big Bertha for this one, man, I think your gonna like this baby...now scram I think...
Remember those home movies your crazy uncle would show at big family events? Everyone would gather round the screen to laugh at Aunt Bertha's swollen thighs, smirk at cousin Damien's antics, and smile at Grandma Smith's sweet girlishness as she shied from the camera's probing lens. Everyone was thrilled and secretly proud and yet vaguely terrified to see themselves caught and fixed on screen...
...accommodates the style of anecdotal confessions and informal sketches in which the story of a day in the life of Tuna is told. Sears and Williams, who also co-wrote the two-man show with director Ed Howard, conjure up the local color with their hilarious sketches: there's Bertha Bumiller, head of the local Smut-Snatching Society, in her green poly suit and orange bouffant wig; Petie Fiske, the woebegone rep from the Greater Tuna Humane Society and his homeless ducks; the toad-voiced chainsmoking Deedee Snavelly; the Rev. Spikes and his "remember the Alamo!" eulogies...