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Wouldn't it be great if the pieman could cometh to Congress! Each opening session would begin with an intense ten-minute pie fight. It would be a grand way to get rid of hostilities and envelop that august body in a meringuey camaraderie. I think it would raise public esteem for our legislators as well-they would get most of the foolishness, pomposity, orneriness, pettiness and childishness out of their systems in one brisk fling...
...veteran of ten years in the assembly, Moretti attacked Brown's lack of experience and ridiculed his coldly cerebral approach to problems. "Whenever I see Jerry, I say to myself, 'The Iceman Cometh,' " Moretti told one college audience...
...like most of Williams's plays, casts its net far wider, exploring a number of major themes: illusion and reality and the impact idealism has on them (there is a lesson in the fact that, in this matter, Williams and O'Neill--in The Iceman Cometh--could take opposing positions and both be convincing); the need to overcome isolation and the obstacles to communication and worthy personal relationships; the nature of power, both materialistic and spiritual; and sexual conflict and guilt (heterosexual as well as homosexual). As often with Williams, disease and neurosis and death are also involved...
...self-deceit. He knew they were not necessarily a poison, but often a nourishment, a kind of grace. The seediest dreams, tended like a campfire, served at least to make the emptier expanses of the soul more habitable. O'Neill explored the idea most thoroughly in The Iceman Cometh, which he wrote in 1939. Two years later, he stated it with a succinct force in Hughie, a one-act play that he planned as part of a series called "By Way of Obit...
...gems. Grand Hotel, 1932 with Garbo, sums up a lot about the Golden Age--it's crummy, really, but irresistable because there's just so much glam. With the Barrymore's, Joan Crawford and Wallace Beery. Along with it at Quincy House is Astaire and Rogers' Top Hat, whence cometh "Cheek to Cheek" and others. Many people's favorite--not mine, but wonderful by definition. Music is Irving Berlin...