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...stay out too late making merry with Falstaffian types. Because Sunday, April 24 at 2 p.m., Don Stover and the White Oak Mountain Boys will raise the roof at the First Congregational Church of Cambridge with straight, 100 per cent mainline bluegrass. Nancy Tallbot, who seems to singlehandedly run the Boston Area Friends of Bluegrass and Old Time Country Music, which is sponsoring Stover's appearance, calls Stover "one of the four or five best banjo players in the world. "According to Tallbot, Stover first came to Boston from Clear Creek, W. Va. in the early 50s. After getting...
With that end in mind, Guccione chose Italian Tinto Brass to direct his movie. Virtually unknown even in Italy, despite ten pictures to his credit, Brass had won Guccione's admiration with his last film, Salon Kitty, a spy thriller set in a Nazi brothel. Brass, a Falstaffian figure with a temper as big as his waistline, soon decided that Vidal's script was too bourgeois for his taste. "It was the work of an aging arteriosclerotic," he says. "Vidal redid it five times, but it was still absurd." With the help of McDowell, Brass rewrote the screenplay...
...counterfeit turns out to be exactly what it should be: grossly indelicate, boozily funny, unstoppable as a belch or a rush of sack to the kidneys. To say that it goes on being boozy and indelicate too long is to say, no doubt, that it is Falstaffian. The author's conceit is that Falstaff is now in his 80s. Busily dictating his memoirs, he passes on to a series of horrified clerks his digestive uproars, his sexual fantasies about his pubescent niece and his rages at his cook Macbeth ("Macbeth has murdered sleep, and my digestion"). Falstaff acknowledges that...
...Arthur ran a small but prestigious publishing house-and lived comfortably in a London suburb, amid books and talk of books. The adolescent Evelyn saw Oxford as a kind of enchanted kingdom. For a time he became one of its leading fauns, an aesthete shuttling between Hamletic conversation and Falstaffian drinking. After graduation, Waugh had a desultory try at being an artist. Failing at that, he became a teacher at third-rate boarding schools. He began a book, informing the curious that he was writing The History of the Eskimos. At about this time, says Biographer Sykes, Evelyn also entered...
...towering Fred Gwynne '51 departs from the usual Falstaffian Sir Toby, and gives full rein to his wellknown comedic talents, whether goosing Maria, hiccuping or extracting hidden booze from unexpected places. He also proves himself, in his fight with Sebastian, to be a really first-rate fencer--which seems all the more impressive in the wake of the sidesplittingly inept duel between Viola and Sir Andrew, both of whose foils fly into the air at the opening engagement en quarte, and, later on, wind up in a single hand. Farcical fencing is no easy trick to pull off, and Patrick...