Word: boarders
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...father was a Bible-Beltish tile setter who never drank or swore. My stepfather was a logger who gambled, drank, fought, and did just about everything else. They were total opposites, and I had to find my own way." He found it one night when he heard a fellow boarder at a Los Angeles rooming house playing jazz piano. "He seemed to be having so much fun I just flipped," recalls Mason. Thus ended his ambition to become an insurance actuary; he went to Oklahoma City College as a music major...
...unfortunate scheme of writing what seem to be fragments of separate novels about each member of the family and then cobbling the pieces together. There are simply too many pieces; the family includes, besides Whipple and his wife, three teen-age sons and a daughter, a young girl boarder and a cat. The human characters are led through the loss of virginity or an equivalent test of patience; the cat is honored with a long, agonizing and very well-written death scene...
...scene of the second act is contentless. But the lines, and the characters who speak them, achieve credibility and real beauty at the same time. "Baby, if you had a dog, I'd love the dog," says Moe Axelrod, the family satisfied businessman with little concern for family or boarder, to Hennie, whom he loves. Uncle Morty, a self-heritage, describes his success by saying, "Every Jew and Wop in the shop eats my bread and behind my back says, 'a sonofabitch.' I started from a poor boy who worked on an ice wagon for two dollars a week...
...play's deadfall guy, Stanley (James Patterson), a paranoid expianist, is a mildly sinister human cipher and the sole boarder of a dilapidated rooming house at an English seaside resort. His landlady, Meg (Ruth White) cuddles and cossets him; unfailingly, she treats Stanley and her whey-faced husband to the breakfast specialty of the house, corn flakes and fried bread. Stanley has even less stomach for breakfast when he learns that two men named Goldberg (Ed Flanders) and McCann (Edward Winter) have come to the house as roomers...
...while away the hours, the District's $3,000-a-month star boarder reads movie magazines, performs isometric exercises, chain-smokes Camels while he chain-watches TV, and whips up his favorite recipes on the hot plate. He also spends considerable time fussing with his greying hair, which was dyed henna for his Senate scenes and is now walnut brown. "I put a big dent in Cosa Nostra," he says, "and I'm enjoying...