Word: bloods
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...understand the size of the creative problems now facing Blood, the new "satire in poor taste" currently trying to make a go of it in Boston. At the moment, Blood's creators have not exactly solved these problems, but they have taken a healthy (or is it crippled?) step toward this...
Regrettably, the first half-dozen of Blood's humorous black-out sketches do not give this impression. Bits about demonstrator-police confrontations or modern sex hangups stay abreast with our civilization rather than transcending...
Debby Eranke and Connie Wilkinson, Blood's girls, do very nicely with such characters as a dumb stewardess, Jesus' Jewish mother, and a middle-aged busybody who tells a blind man that "Helen Keller was a credit to your race." Nelson O'Brien glides through one of the truest David Susskind impressions ever--sanctimonious stupidity carried to the infinite degree...
...course, that is what the people at Blood are working on right now. They are cutting, sharpening and editing. Many of the sketches have good central jokes that never quite make it in the execution (such as an ambiguous Edward Albee parody), and others need to be thrown out entirely...
...Loeb always needs that new blood which is scared off by the rumors surrounding the place, and often must tap house who staffs when it's short on labor. But besides being scary, there exists no attractive or formalized way to learn at the Loeb. The freshman apprentice program was not credited with great success by anybody. Donald Soule and Frank Hartenstein, the Loeb technical and assistant technical directors, are there to prevent fingers from being cut off and equipment from being destroyed; they'll answer specific questions, but they are not there to teach...