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...closest things to Klein's heart, though, is his radio program, The Robert Klein Hour. Twenty-six shows aired last year, syndicated nationwide by the FM outfit responsible for The King Biscuit Flower Hour. Top name rockers like the Who, Fleetwood Mac and Carly Simon came on and talked with Klein (and also played their records), as well as non-music folks like Rodney Dangerfield (yet again), Robin Williams and Jane Fonda (who didn't play her record). This year, Klein's own production company has taken over the show, with a resultant change of advertisers...
...blizzard of flower petals, balloons, confetti and bravoes, she dipped her final curtsy with all the grace and enfolding gaiety that have made her the country's favorite diva. It was her last hurrah as an opera singer. For more than a quarter of a century audiences have been captivated by her supple, crystalline soprano voice, the musicality of her every acting gesture and her warm, spontaneous personality, which soared-but never stomped-across the footlights. There was no phony mystique, no overlay of artistic "temperament" in a world notorious for imperious egos. Sills onstage was indistinguishable from Sills...
...wryly detached wit. He says a man's lips scarcely moved, "as if he were keeping them poised for the next sip of alcohol, which, it seemed, was never more than a few seconds away," and describes a group of a "new strain of flower child...these were flower children who wanted to get rich. Hippies with Rotarian hearts." He asks, "Wasn't uncouthness--or at least the option of being uncouth--the whole point of living in Nome...
Others, though, can seek out the land, the profusion of growth and beauty that is never farther away than the dirt road over yonder. If a boy wants to get away and think, he can do so royally: "He stood in the light of birdleg-pink leaves, yellow flower vines, and scattered white blooms each crushed under its drop of water as under a stone, the maples red as cinnamon drops and the falling, thready nets of willows . . ." Such is lated scenes may some day seem as remote as Jane Austen's country villages. If so, the work...
...REAL STAR of the show is the set, created by Derek McLane, Mammoth flowers open with a resounding pop, like umbrellas--not flowers so much as an urban person's idea of a flower, the sort of thing you might find decorating the Citicorp lobby, or around Lincoln Center's glass and steel and concrete. The center of the stage is a huge black reflecting pool, a tar pit to trap Narcissus; around it is a path of Harvard Square brick, and around that a "lawn" of torn Hefty bags. Everything is unhealthy and artificial, beautiful...