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...member of the foursome (Ned Sherrin) acts as a kind of M.C. and spins off topical jests with the aplomb of Johnny Carson. The other three-Millicent Martin, Julie N. McKenzie and David Kernan-sing 31 full songs with style, relish and a neat change of pace. Uniformly responsive, the opening-night house came to a roar on at least three numbers. Millicent Martin brings the granitic grit of survival to I'm Still Here (Follies); Julie N. McKenzie belts out Another Hundred People (Company) like a trip hammer; and David Kernan joins the two women for a satirical...
...house party' of friends may feel wholly at ease," and she ran it in that Jamesian way until 1969, keeping Yaddo short on rules (no visitors from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m.) and long on big-name residents. They included James Baldwin, Leonard Bernstein, Edward Hopper, Louis Kronenberger, Carson McCullers and Clyfford Still. John Cheever, another visitor, credited Mrs. Ames with a "softly imperious" ability to keep Yaddo running smoothly, though faced with "a zoo of cranky artists...
...just about every other Law School jokes that could be made came up in the course of the show. This year, there are no such omissions. Holmes is Where the Hark Is relies heavily on inside one-liners; even jokes that are comprehensible to outsiders (as when a Johnny Carson figure tells a class, "How angry was the crowd? As angry as the Harvard Law faculty when Jimmy Carter announced his cabinet") rely on some knowledge of the school. How inside is the show? So inside that the Law Record reviewer, a second-year law student, confessed he understood about...
...funeral of the supposedly-martyred colonel. At best, Malkin managers to be wooden, needlessly shouting out all his lines and generally giving an excellent imitation of the Robot from Lost in Space. The second act, like the first, is a monologue, this time by the president. At least Johnny Carson gets to tap dance if his jokes bomb; Making can only suffer through his pointless lines...
Finley also talked about his experiences with Johnny Carson when Carson was here at Harvard recently to accept his Hasty Pudding Man of the Year award. Finley said he had talked to Carson about knowledge, the world and the individual's place in it, and added, "He seemed to understand it all quite well...