Word: grizzard
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...killed 13 other people and themselves if they'd simply been armed with baseball bats or knives. Mass murder requires weaponry that kills rapidly from a distance. Why do we make it so easy for those with dark fantasies to acquire the weapons needed to act them out? CAROL GRIZZARD Pikeville...
...Delicate Balance. A suburban couple are paid a visit by friends who don't want to leave. Edward Albee's play may have seemed elusive back in the 1960s. But reincarnated by a fine cast (George Grizzard, Rosemary Harris), it proves to be one of the author's most poetic and vivid depictions of the dark at the bottom of the stairs...
That's pretty much the plot, which may strike you as either a maddeningly elusive tale or a haunting parable of disconnection and existential terror. Gerald Gutierrez's tight, tense direction makes a good case for the latter. So do actors like Rosemary Harris and George Grizzard, who seem to have lived in their roles for years (only Elaine Stritch, as Agnes' boozy sister, betrays a bit of Broadway shtick). When Grizzard drops his air of befuddled decorum for a climactic aria of rage and resolve ("I want your plague! You've got some terror with you? Bring...
DIED. LEWIS GRIZZARD, 47, humorist; from complications following heart surgery; in Atlanta. "A Faulkner for just plain folks" was how one publisher characterized Grizzard, who made hay of everyday angst and irritation in a syndicated column and 14 books -- not to mention on speaking tours and sundry media gigs. The titles of Grizzard's best-known works sum up his puckish view of the world, as filtered through his experiences as a multimarried Southern male child of the '50s: Elvis Is Dead and I Don't Feel So Good Myself and My Daddy Was a Pistol...
What remains is a trail of suddenly hollow accomplishments: Smith chosen "best all around" by his high school class; Grizzard's passing for 12 touchdowns in his last year at Annapolis; O'Neill's 12 varsity letters. And what did O'Neill and Smith break up over? In the Los Angeles Times, Coronado police cited witnesses who said, "They had different ideas about their future." Now there is no future...