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Walter Tucker, a local dentist who has played a clergyman in The Lost Colony for the past six years, made it through a scene in which he lies supine and ill and then took it upon himself to explain his devotion to the production...
...seats to situate themselves. "We can make it," said a woman with a tot on her hip, "but I don't think Granny can get in this way." Granny went round by the aisle, and people stood up to let her in. Well into the show, when Dentist Tucker as Father Martin emoted an illness the script saddled him with, Granny said, "I don't get it. Last year Father Martin fainted. This year he just blacks out. It was better having him faint...
Here she has taped some fairly scatty memoirs, edited by George Plimpton and Christopher Hemphill. The plentiful italics of her speech are faithfully reproduced along with chatty asides, myopic anecdotes and bits of advice (see a dentist early in the day because a tired one is "very tough...
Laughter: "If Mary had lived on our block, we would have said, 'Of course she has time to go to the dentist. She only has Jesus...
...often from her TV spots on Good Morning America. Television's appetite for visual gags forces her to be a comic entertainer, not the wise-guy satirist of the newspaper column. She has a natural talent for mugging, but when she tries, typically, to cope with an eccentric dentist who wears a Superman suit, or to record a hit country tune in Nashville, or to interview an underwater hockey team, the jokes sometimes seem forced. Even on TV, though, the zingers can zing: having decided, unaccountably, to interview a pig, she starts off, "Hi, I think I used...