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From the age of four, Brian Batey, now 16, has been caught in a bitter custody battle between his Christian Fundamentalist mother and his homosexual father. Rather than comply with a 1982 court order awarding Brian to her former husband, Betty Lou Batey disappeared with the boy for 19 months before surrendering to authorities in 1984. Brian returned to live with his father Frank and Frank's longtime lover, Craig Corbett, in Palm Springs. But when Frank Batey died of AIDS in June, his mother once again tried to get him back...
Cocteau's adaptation added further to the ancient myth with the character of Heuteboise (Don Carleton), a guardian angel who doubles as a glazier. Prascak makes him a dilivery boy for Pinocchio's Pizza, a change that provides plenty of material for the rest of this strange brew of banality, magic and myth. For instance, Euridice's fatal step is taking a bite of a mushroom slice. In one of Prascak's sillier insertions, her death occurs after she hands out several freshly delivered slices to the audience...
...shouldn't come to Harvard. Old Cap Weinberger didn't realize this and we had to resort to ketchup to drown him out. And that Contra-guy, (what was his name?) it took him two visits here before he understood that he didn't fit in. Boy was he dumb! Thank goodness more people are getting the message these days. Pretty soon we won't have to be bothered with any of their dumb ideas at all, at least not here. We'll be one big happy homogeneous institution of smart people which will make Harvard's reputation rival...
Americans loved Reagan because he was genial and optimistic, not a molecule of the neurotic in his body. He liked to tell a slightly peculiar story about a boy who on Christmas morning finds a pile of manure in his room and says brightly, "I just know there's a pony in here somewhere." He was coated with Teflon: blame never attached itself...
Maria, a bed-wise South Carolina belle and wife of an aging Jewish businessman who has made a fortune selling charter flights to Mecca-bound Arabs, discourages Sherman from reporting the incident to the police. Unfortunately, the mother of the badly injured boy is a friend of the Rev. Reginald Bacon's, whose specialty is political pressure and misappropriating social-service funds for his private use, an activity he justifies as "steam control." Bacon is shrewd, cunning, outrageous and, like the other shrewd, cunning, outrageous characters in Bonfire, not necessarily bigger than life...