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Janet (Catherine Burns) is one of those 19-year-old girls who cannot turn the pages of a book without developing a crush on its author. Writer Alec Kooning (Kevin O'Connor), urbane, 50, short of wind and past the crest of his talent, cannot receive an adoring letter from such a girl without replying in grateful ardor. Females being females, with their minds "half on virginity, half on the game," Janet maneuvers her hero into a meeting...
...second play on this double bill, Jakey Fat Boy, is a hilarious putdown of the hopped-up cult of being "with it." Much of the humor revolves around malicious In jokes about Kenneth Tynan, deviser of Oh! Calcutta! Jake, the hero (O'Connor), is obsessed by Tynan, referring to him as being "uptight with now," or else identifying with him: "I am up there with Ken Tynan and all the great lovers, all the major erotic figures." What Jake actually is, of course, is autoerotic, an onanistic intellectual voyeur...
These plays are for sophisticates, but Kevin O'Connor's performance is for everyone who ever cared about superior acting. His gregarious presence epitomizes the actor as host. Each playgoer is a guest at his party; he means the party to swing, and it does...
...though there is some evidence that they were never as strong as popularly believed. There is, for instance, a marked decline in the harassment of campus recruiters. Perhaps there are just too few of them around to picket. Duke University's director of placement services, Patricia O'Connor, has seen little indication of students avoiding business, but feels that many are now "more flexible" about whom they will work for. William W. Wells, director of selection and placement for Genesco, notes a new humility among undergraduates: "They want a job and are not so particular...
Married. Jason Robards, 47, Broadway leading man (most recently starred in We Bombed in New Haven); and Lois O'Connor, 26, onetime TV production assistant; he for the fourth time (his eight-year marriage to Lauren Bacall ended in divorce last September), she for the first; in a civil ceremony in Malibu, Calif...