Word: bobbi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...critical commonplace that Godot is a kind of abstract, modern Everyman, or Well-theater. In director Bobbi Ausubel's stagey production, the mechanics of living life are identified with those of putting on a play. Characters know just where they are: they wave away a too bright spotlight, carry around the portable tree, and once or twice stop out into the audience to make a comment like "I've been better entertained." The scene is the stage itself: the props represent little more than props. Like the characters, we are given very little information to go on. Getting...
...Cambridge, Mass., Bobbi Baker ran a high-fashion dress shop near the Harvard University campus for six years but sold the building this year and moved to a quiet suburb. "One year we were trashed three times," she recalls bitterly. "In the first trashing, they piled up a lot of merchandise inside the store and set fire to it. Women's Lib picketed us and sprayed our windows with slogans. We got tired of being threatened with knives and being bullied...
...second girl is Bobbi Michele, a paranoid pothead whom Barney picks up while munching peanuts on a bench in Central Park. He lends her the cash to hire an accompanist for an audition on Broadway. When she shows up at Mom's apartment the next day to repay the money, all of Barney's fantasies of extramarital fulfillment vanish in a haze of marijuana smoke...
Alan Arkin's Barney is a composite of small, shrewd gestures and intuitions, as in a marvelous sequence where he watches Bobbi sing What the World Needs Now Is Love with a mounting mixture of apprehension, thwarted lust and concern that the little old lady next door will hear. Arkin is a vast improvement over James Coco's preening, keening act in the Broadway Lovers, and he has Barney's look meticulously right, down to the monogrammed pocket handkerchief he wears in the pocket of his blue business suit...
Paula Prentiss as Bobbi does her familiar kook turn. Renee Taylor plays Jeanette with the same unsparing vulgarity she used for a similar character in Made for Each Other. Sally Kellerman comes off best of the women, partly because she is the first one we meet. Her Elaine is throaty, sexy, challenging and intimidating. By the time the other two put in their appearances, the whole thing has become for audiences what it is for Barney: an endurance contest...