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...pain is real, and the tears are real tears." Kahn, author of the bestselling The Boys of Summer, an affectionate look back to the glory days of the Dodgers in Brooklyn has been writing about sports for 26 years. This week he begins a new feature for TIME. His "Byplay" will appear 20 times a year, offering, in Kahn's words, "a dialogue with our readers on sports...
...readable book than a random walk on the subject by an author who may be thought of as the writing man's jogger. Besides frequent patches of straight autobiography, there are countless obligatory examples of the disguised autobiography known as the nostalgia-trivia game, including a play-byplay account of how Howard Ehmke almost (but not quite) pitched a no-hit game for the Red Sox on May 28, 1924. A fan as in fanatic, Michener further demonstrates the dread total recall of Jock Lit in reporting his meetings with everybody from Montreal Canadiens Goalie Ken Dryden to Fleurette...
...Korsakov in an opera (Mozart and Sa-lieri), that Salieri poisoned Mozart. Scholars discount the thesis, but there is no doubt that Salieri hindered the career of his younger colleague. Small wonder. Salieri was a hack who saw Mozart as a threat to his own reputation. Is such historical byplay justification enough for combining the two works at this late date? Alas, no. Prima la Musica has about 15 minutes of passable music; at a length of 70 minutes, it is maddeningly vapid...
...with the production that Michael Kahn has mounted for him. Kahn has operated with a sure hand. He has let all the humor come forward, and he has not been afraid to introduce quite a few lengthy pauses, all of which work tellingly. The first-act blocking and the byplay with the crutch escape the monotony that can easily beset the early portion of the play...
...change in inner attitudes, so that the comic material for which he was scorned and prosecuted meets with relatively easy acceptance today. Outwardly, little has changed. The substance of the first two-thirds of this one-man show-a toilet-training routine, assorted scatology, corrosively Jewish anti-Semitic byplay-could no more find its way into print in most publications now than when Bruce first delivered it in the '50s and '60s. Most supper-club managers would still label it as "sick...