Word: fishing
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Figuring to show the home folks what a big fish he has caught, he Caddies her down to the small Southern town where he grew up. The big blowhard is unaware that on his last trip home he left the daughter of the state's political boss (Ed Begley) pregnant, and that she subsequently had an abortion. Now the political boss is a real mean man, and when he hears that the hero is in town...
William and Jean Eckart designed the extremely handsome settings. Since the cast includes three Rosepettles, Commodore Rosabove, Rosalie, and Rosalinda the fish--and, for all I know, Jonathan may be keeping a "Rosebud" sled in his closet--it is no surprise that the chief color of the decor (and of some of the costumes) is rose, with which two pieces of orange-upholstered furniture are delightfully inharmonious. And Thomas Skelton's lighting, properly non-realistic, is stunning...
Leicester Hemingway, dubbed by Ernest "The Baron" for reasons unexplained, reveals himself as the archetypal kid brother. He was 16 years younger. He adored "Stein," as he called him. And he took naturally to Stein's patronizing pontifications on how to do anything, from landing a fish to landing a woman, and was happy to serve as batman, drink mixer, errand boy and good listener whenever the Great Man felt the urge. His book about his brother is not really a biography. But as a chronological series of personal memories, plus cullings from Hemingway's letters, it adds...
...Aquarium is gone. Everywhere, giant finned cars nose forward like fish; a savage servility slides by on grease...
When sprouts break out, Slippery as fish, I quail, lean to beginnings, sheath...