Word: hurrahing
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...Marshall, this will be his last hurrah. He's retiring this year from his job at the New England Confectionery Company (NECCO...
...Saturday morning. Groggy-eyed, you open your underwear drawer and the sinking reality hits you: it's laundry day again. You lug your sack of laundry--usually a parting gift from your parents as a last hurrah before college--and bottle of Tide down 36 flights of stairs. And then you realize that you forgot your swipe card and your laundry ordeal begins...
...screenwriters concede that they massaged some facts for dramatic effect. To offset the downbeat reality of Andy's premature death, for example, they took a successful Carnegie Hall show from early in Kaufman's career and recast it as his last hurrah before succumbing to cancer. Several girlfriends were combined into a composite character, played by Courtney Love, and a few other liberties were taken as well. But Kaufman's life remains familiar to those who best know it. "Facts, schmacts, they made him honest," says Bill Zehme, who spent six years researching Kaufman for his comprehensive new book Lost...
...Oscillating between razor-sharp and nauseatingly trite (see above), director Eric Simonson's adapted script is too inconsistent to be praised. Besides containing about twelve too many characters (with not an interesting female role in the bunch), the script lacks the moral ambiguity that would have made The Last Hurrah a more intellectually engaging production. The press material for the play asks the seminal question "Is Skeffington a compassionate champion of the poor, an unscrupulous back-room deal maker, or both?" and it is clear early on in one's evening that the answer will not be hard to figure...
...Though filled with energy and period piece spirit, The Last Hurrah fails to reveal a deeper meaning beneath its entertaining surface. It's fun to go along for the ride, but at the end of this political campaign, one can't help but ask himself...