Word: fleabags
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...with a shrewd Mexican before a complacent chicano crowd. Between thesetwo smallest of small-time bouts, he reflects on his past and present rootlessness, and satisfies his need for some kind of transcendent reality by reading pulp movie-fan magazines. The variety of his life is the variety of fleabag hotels the city of Stockton offers him. Drinking, desperately trying to love a neurotic lush, flashing back to times when he could have been a real contender or raised a family but for his damning insecurities, Tully finds no personal tranquillity. He moves from job to job: tops onions...
...absurdists, comic illogicians who disrupted routines, tipped the daily balance sheet of existence awry, and exploded surprises like firecrackers. By contrast, the musical is a routine Broadway blueprint of the oft-repeated show-biz saga. Here it all is-indigent beginnings, ineffectual father, indomitable, solicitous and insufferable stage mother, fleabag hotels, one-night stands, the big chance with the kingpin producer, a smash hit at vaudeville's old Valhalla, the Palace, and at the final fadeout, on to Hollywood and immortality. The plot is as inflexibly mythic as the stock western...