Word: buchwald
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...passed under a marquee and I stopped. "A new play by Art Buchwald...
...down, read the playbill (looked just like the ones back home) and noticed that the empty seats held the majority in the second balcony. A sleeper, I thought. Noted that the playbill marked Buchwald as a "humor conglomerate." And, indeed, the main attraction was a Buchwald conglomerate, if not exactly a play...
...comedy show ("Oh, Mr. Mayflower, my husband didn't make you out to be a horse's ass."); the ambassador's daughter who organizes the students at Nonomura and goes to Radcliffe has a lisp and is straight out of The Impossible Years. And it is rumored that Art Buchwald doesn't really exist-that he is the unfulfilled dream of Walter Lippman, or better yet, Walter Lippman, disguised as a humorist...
...Sheep needs a plot to usher the audience through the vacuums between jokes. The men and women on stage are superfluous, a fog between the audience and Buchwald's byline at the breakfast table. And the words, so funny when read, just don't work when they come from comic book characters on stage. Sometimes, the playwright in Mr. Buchwald comes creeping out, but he soon crawls back in. Buchwald often hints that something is really going to occur between certain characters, that a situation is leading to a plot. There is such a moment when the ambassador's daughter...
...playbill there was an article entitled "The Media Men." It listed a great number of familiar people, including Vice-President Agnew. But it left out Mr. Buchwald, who, if not for his columns, is revered as the sweet bumbling man with the frumpy suit and thick glasses who found it hard to talk about the death of Robert Kennedy on television. As did a great number of other media men. The article didn't seem to feel that the media men were very talented, but that they are easily devoured and replaced by a voracious public. I for one would...