Word: dumbness
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...hard to figure out where the cast of Tommy left their show. As we go to press, the place seems to be Currier House, where the show originated. The production, based on the opera by Peter Townsend of The Who, is about a youth who goes deaf, dumb, and blind after witnessing his mother's infidelity; eventually he finds his callin as a pinball player extrordinaire. It's all laden with heavy Christ symbolism...
...brutalizations in the Viet Nam era. This week in Manhattan Actor Michael Moriarty is opening in David Berry's play G.R. Point, an equally brutal work about men doing graves registration duty in Viet Nam. Its refrain: "The 'Nam hasn't got any heroes. Dead is dumb, and dead in the 'Nam is the dumbest...
Clifford did not feel so good about his performance. "It was generally a matter of frustration. I threw the ball well, but I pitched like horseshit. I was throwing my fastball hard and my curveball was breaking well, but I was just very dumb," he said...
Voight's performance is a disappointment after his realistic portrayal of a Viet Nam vet in Coming Home. The champ should be a sweet, dumb lug, but Voight comes off as an actor playing a sweet, dumb lug. He affects a Sylvester Stallone accent, clouds his face with introspective pain and is not for a second convincing...
...know enough about computers to be able to do something like that," Sonnenfeld said yesterday. "It would be really dumb for a proctor to go and make extra work for himself," he said...