Word: dad
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Dwell in a Palace of Strangers, Sing to Me Through Open Windows, and On the Runway of Life You Never Know What's Coming Off Next. Last week in London, preparing for its presentation next fall in Manhattan, Kopit's first-professional production reached the stage: Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feeling...
What is remarkable is that Writer Kopit, after using up so much creative energy on his titles, had something left over for the plays themselves. Oh Dad, Poor Dad, described in undergraduate fashion by the playwright himself as "a pseudoclassical tragifarce in a bastard French tradition." shows influences in every scene-from strong, cynical gusts of Jean Anouilh, Marcel Ayme and Jean Giraudoux down to weak, cynical undertones of Elizabeth Taylor: "He's dead. Listen to me. I'm alive." It is a spoof of everything from waltzing toreadors to Tennessee Williams; and like the characters of Williams...
...Hayley the Second is a rowdy Californian who ranches with her roughneck father (Brian Keith). The girls meet at camp, tumble to the situation, and switch places. At summer's end, Hayley the Second gets her first look at Boston and mother, and Hayley the First sees her dad. But dad is about to marry a proprietary blonde (Joanna Barnes) who plans to send her stepdaughter-to-be off to school in Switzerland and, no doubt, tack chintz up all over pop's adobe ranch house. After some wonderfully Balkan sabotage, the errant parents are lured back together...
Fast Situations. Unlike most of the oldtime Texas tycoons, the Murchisons run a team operation, delegate authority freely, and depend heavily on a stream of advisers. "Dad is a real financial genius," says John. "My brother and I don't consider ourselves financial geniuses." From all over the U.S., college friends, family friends, business acquaintances-and a spate of crackpots-tip them off about investment opportunities. Unlike their father, who disliked selling any of his properties, they are on the lookout for fast situations that they can get in and out of while the profits are ripe. Above...
...created." They certainly live by a principle inculcated in them by old Clint. Says Clint Jr.: "There isn't any sense in having $40 million in the bank or even in securities if you aren't doing something to enhance the value of those securities. Dad once gave me a great piece of advice. He said: 'Money is like manure. If you spread it around, it does a lot of good. But if you pile it up in one place, it stinks like hell...