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...other side of the coin, Amiel Sternberg's Uncle Ernie, a doddering bugger who assaults Tommy while singing "Fiddle About," is certainly a horny old bastard but is played too much as a drooling victim of uncontrollable sexual urges. The innocent relish of Daltry's original has disappeared and the desperate emotion that takes its place is unconvincing. Who would even ask the question "Do you think it's all right--(to leave the boy with Uncle Ernie)" if they were leaving him behind with such a creature...
...things are more frustrating than a vending machine that sits in smug silence after gobbling a harried human's coins. Michael DeNardo of Cranston, R.I., is not one to put up with such machinations. When an automaton at the foundry where he worked failed to produce the requested coffee, and the coin-return lever offered no peaceful settlement, DeNardo belted the contraption...
Though every plot point is established roughly three times, Herzfeld's script is riddled with holes. He asks us to believe that Drew would record a make-or-break audition song in a coin-operated "Record-O-Graph" booth, without musical accompaniment, just because his cassette machine was broken. Later the hero lands a star gig at a disco by sheer happenstance...
...Conquests looks at the same people from three different angles; Bedroom Farce hops into three bedrooms; Sisterly Feelings has two third acts. From night to night no one, Ayckbourn included, knows which one will be played. At the end of the second act, one of the actors pulls a coin from his pocket and flips it on stage. Heads means the third will be played one way; tails means it will be played the other. Both scenes end in such a way that the fourth and final act stays the same. "People come to the theater to be entertained...
...memo written by the former computer programmer of the lottery stated categorically that officials run part of the lottery manually--and it suggested that officials use certain procedures, such as flipping a coin, in parts of the assignment process...