Word: drunk
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Unseeing, hopelessly ignorant because she has never been to school, a blind girl gropes through a squalid, nightmare life. Her name is Selina. All day long she sits alone in a city tenement, stringing costume-jewelry beads to earn her keep. Her grandfather (Wallace Ford) is a maudlin old drunk. Her mother (Shelley Winters at her strident best) is a fat, vicious trollop who accidentally caused Selina's blindness years ago, now despises her for deserving pity...
...This is the only place I've ever had fun putting on plays," he mused to some half-drunk actors from the Dunster Christmas play, himself not entirely sober at the time. "We didn't have to worry about reviews, the stage hands union, Actor's Equity, or our backers. We could do whatever the hell we wanted...
...Kopit wrote two Christmas plays and several one-actors. "My Christmas productions, Don Juan in Texas and Across the River and Into the Jungle, had everything in them, even huge barroom brawls. We threw them together in two days, but the audiences loved them anyway. Everyone was always drunk." One of his other plays, The Questioning of Nick, about a high school basketball player accused of throwing a game, was later put on television...
Farnsworth also discussed LSD and held out some possibility that the drunk might be useful in, the treatment of chronic alcoholism and of addiction to other drugs. "We are not opposed to the use of these drugs for controlled research, but we are compulsively opposed to their uninformed and irresponsible...
...deferentially light a girl's cigarette or send her out to buy dinner. The policeman on duty showed up about every 15 minutes with an autograph seeker. The first time, Dennis's mother quietly reminded him, "Stand up, Denny," and he walked forward to shake hands with a very drunk English teacher attending a convention in the hotel. She wanted his autograph for her two daughters and blubbered fervent thank you's for several minutes while he held her hand and gazed steadily at her flushed face. Dennis was equally gracious to other fans who interrupted; he seemed to want...