Word: daffyness
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Orpheus Descending is a rewrite by Tennessee Williams of a Williams play, Battle of Angels, that headed for Broadway in 1940 but folded in Boston. A certain sense of remodeling, of altered stairs and corridors, of trapdoors inserted and windows removed, hangs over the play. But the builder's...
Whatever her predicament or hairdo, Actress Russell remains the triumphant embodiment of festive pandemonium and soignee wackiness. Hers is a delightful twining of farceuse and comedienne: she can give a drawing-room inflection to a loony-bin situation, or turn daffy or profane in the midst of playing a grande...
Minstreling through Dixie, Dreamboat Groaner Elvis ("The Pelvis") Presley proved that in the rock-'n'-roll business it helps to be daffy. In Charlotte, N.C. he deeply impressed the local Observer's observer: "Presley burst onto the stage, staggering and flailing like a moth caught in a...
(Thurs. 10 p.m., CBS). The daffy Dane's one-man Broadway show reaches TV.
The week's drama was partially redeemed by CBS's Best of Broadway, which revived George Kelly's 1924 Broadway hit, The Show-Off, as a starring vehicle for Comedian Jackie Gleason. As Aubrey Piper, a vainglorious blowhard who enchants his wife but drives her family daffy...