Word: birdboot
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...English for a decade. But I think he may have something against critics in general, having once been one himself, before his Rosencrantz and Guildenstern broke on the London theater scene. Perhaps he shares reviewer-character Moon's jealousy of the first stringer who overshadows him, or reviewer-character Birdboot's moral outrage at other critic's criticism of his rather intense interest in a new actress each opening night. All I know is that one feels it wise to be on one's best critical behavior, for safety's sake, in inspecting a play like The Real Inspector Hound...
...makes each man a very different type, and he is wickedly on target with both. Birdboot (Tom Lacy) is an expansive, chocolate-munching show-bird chaser who finds almost everything "a rattling good show." Moon (David Rounds) is an emotionally constipated, intellectually rabid exegete; any wispy pile of dramatic dandruff can fuel his fire about "the human condition...
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