Word: birdfoot
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Hound has its critics watching a whodunit parodied from Agatha Christie's long-running The Mousetrap. They ramble on to themselves between acts, testing net phrases for their reviews. They speed-reed their programs and eat chocolates. They compare quotations: Birdfoot's review that was completely reproduced in neon, for instance. "Oh that thing, yes, I just happen to have a couple of color transparencies of it here in my pocket." Robert Vaughn, in little soloquies complete with Shakespearean intonation, worries about his rivals Higgs (first string) and Puckeridge (third string). Michael Egan, tremendous and goateed, is perfect...
...phone with "Hello, the drawing room of Lady Muldoon's country residence one morning in early spring." The stock characters dash to and fro, pausing in place long enough to let the critics' discussion go on without competition. --Until the phone rings again on a deserted stage and Birdfoot leaves his seat to answer it; it's his jealous wife. And before Birdfoot can get back to his seat...
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