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...KINGFISH. Buck Henry is a prissy-elegant queen who tangles with a hustler in Marlane Meyer's absurdist farce at the Los Angeles Theater Center...
...than faced either of the others. Like the Public, the L.A.T.C. tends to excuse artistic lapses on the grounds of good intentions: its present offering of a black South African tract, Bopha!, performed by the authors, is exuberant but crude. The other show now running, however -- the debut of Kingfish by local writer Marlane Meyer -- is an adroitly staged, intelligently acted and gut-thumping depiction of mankind at its most predatory...
...occupy the mansion, Democrat Charles ("Buddy") Roemer, has quickly stretched those boundaries to all but a breaking point. Since he took over from Edwards in March, the scrawny Harvard-educated chief executive has extracted from the legislature budgetary and political power rivaling that $ once held by the dictatorial Kingfish. "I'm the most powerful Governor in America," exults the pragmatic populist as he flashes a baby-faced smile...
Having spent more than half his life in the U.S. Senate, Louisiana's Russell Long last week announced that he will retire when his current term ends in 1987. Son of the "Kingfish," Huey P. Long, Louisiana's legendary populist Governor and Senator, "Princefish" Russell, 66, came to the Senate in 1948. Enthroned as the powerful chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, he became an acknowledged master of the tax code, manipulating it to protect his home state's industries. In a series of filibusters in the 1950s and '60s, Long's bayou banter helped slow civil rights legislation; later...
...Louisiana, political scandal is considered high entertainment, and "honest graft" has been tolerated so long as politicians deliver for their constituents. Former Governor Huey Long, the infamous "Kingfish," presided over a scandal-ridden administration in the late '20s, but he also built schools and roads and soaked the rich to give to the poor. Edwards, 57, the son of a Cajun sharecropper, is heir to Long's populist legacy. He helped to streamline the Louisiana constitution and reorganize the state bureaucracy...