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Strange indeed, but hardly stranger than the identity of the questioner. If the administrator had been sitting before Mike Wallace or Ted Koppel, he might have been prepared for the tough, relentless probing. But his inquisitor was a precocious blond cherub of 13, Jonathan Zachary, who delivered his questions with a slight preadolescent lisp. Zachary is one of 16 youngsters featured in a new TV show called Children's Express News Magazine, an offshoot of Children's Express news service, which has been disarming public figures since it was founded for kids by New York lawyer Robert Clampitt...
...then there is the doctor again. Williams specifies that this character should be a handsome blond. At first, such instructions appear trivial, considering that they do come from an author who describes even the design of the plates in The Glass Menagerie. But later, when Sebastian's sexual proclivities are questioned and when Mrs. Venable tells the doctor that her son would have liked him, these stage notes become quite important. Catherine even comments, "Cousin Sebastian was famished for blonds," calling herself and Mrs. Venable his "procuresses...
...probably guessed by now that Press, the actor playing the doctor, is not blond. There is nothing wrong with "nontraditional" casting, but doesn't it make more sense for the director to alter the lines of the person he chose for the role than to leave the audience puzzled...
Things get better, though, as we retreat from the blond wood facade of Ann Taylor and stumble on the Haymarket, where fresh fruits and vegetables are sold each Friday and Saturday as part of an open-air Boston tradition dating back to the city's founding. We ogle the eggplants and almost buy sizzling Italian sausage, but restrain ourselves. We reach into the bag of candycorn, resigned...
Around the corner at the Glass Slipper Lounge a plump, bleach-blond dancer clad in a g-string prances on the stage as half-a-dozen patrons look on. This is what they call "adult dancing." Maybe it would be erotic if she was 40 pounds lighter, 15 years younger and happy...