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...Dorf and Thomas Williams proved last night in their work Behind the Back Room that delicatessens are not the place to get a taste of student playwrighting. This piece just doesn't cut the mustard...
Written by Jon Dorf '93 and Thomas Williams...
quality of an allegory without its depth of meaning. Presumably, this is intentional--the promotions for the play reading "Dorf on Life" announce its vaguely allegorical purpose. The text offers an absurdist vision that is as empty as a Zen koan, as resonant as the sound of one hand clapping. Rob and Bobby's disclosures on Life read like something off a fortune cookie or bumper sticker: "A life full of love is like being a poor person with a refrigerator--you don't have one," and "Life's a marathon and then you run one." Best...
...prevented at least 1,400 companies -- entertainment giants like Paramount as well as scores of small mom-and-pop operations -- from plunging into the field with an eclectic selection of specialized cassettes. Looking for stars? Tim Conway plays a 4-ft.-tall golf expert in a comedy tape called Dorf on Golf, and Shelley Duvall is the safety-minded host of Earthquake Survival. Anyone for instant history? There are video highlights of Pope John Paul II's 1987 visit to the U.S. and Oliver North's testimony at the Iran- contra hearings. Is the small print in those self-help...
Bizarre might be the word to describe the success of Dorf on Golf, which, with sales of more than 150,000, is one of the surprise hits of the home-video field. A takeoff on the multitude of golf instructional tapes, it features Conway standing on his knees to appear like a midget and doing a slow burn through a feeble series of slapstick gags. A newly released sequel, Dorf and the First Games of Mt. Olympus, has even less point or wit, as the character participates in the hurdles, pole vault and other Olympic events with the help...