Word: drunks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Mailer flails himself as much as he does other Mailerian targets-Nazis, cancer, L.B.J., newspapers, and TIME. Indeed, Mailer begins by fully quoting TIME'S Oct. 27 account of his performance on the stage of Washington's Ambassador Theater at a rally before the Pentagon march began. Drunk he was, and he admits it. But the crisp account of Mailer's role in the events that followed is bathed in the harsh, dry light of hangover. Though he writes in the third person, no modesty is involved: his main character is Norman Mailer. He evokes the dilem...
...funny moments are provided in Lynn's nightmarish seduction by Ian Carmichael playing a guards officer type as impeccably drunk as he is dressed. But Smashing Time has too much bashing to be smashing-and is added evidence that slapstick has replaced satire in the once fine and delicate art of British comedy...
...because an expert cannot testify at a time convenient to the court. By videotaping his testimony before the two opposing lawyers, he can appear whenever he has time. So far, apparently, only one court has admitted any video-taped evidence. In Charlestown, W. Va., the police had taped a drunk driver after his arrest. At his trial, Municipal Judge John Charnock allowed the video tape as secondary and corroborating evidence. He found the man guilty...
Watching them with innocent eyes is a theatrical amanuensis (Barbara Parkins) who soon learns that the room at the top has no exit. Patty is boffo at the box office, but perpetually drunk on booze and zonked by "dolls"-drugs that pep her up in the morning and put her to sleep at night. Susan gets sharp lines in her face and dull ones in her plays. Sharon, a cancer victim, commits suicide by downing a mouthful of sleeping pills. Barbara has an affair with an agent, gets only 10% of his affection and starts playing with dolls herself...
...moved to Gary and began the practice of law, was soon in politics-first as a deputy county prosecutor and then, starting in 1963, as a member of the city council. He was soon baptized in the hazards of his profession. His enemies attempted to hook him on a drunk-driving charge; the trap might have worked except that Baptist Hatcher is well known to be a lifelong teetotaler...