Word: laughs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Still, Senelick's attempt to demystify Ocdipus sometimes goes beyond honesty and emotional integrity to intellectual eccentricity, even perversity. After an actor has recounted in nauseating detail how Ocdipus has just gouged out his eyes, the chorus begins to laugh, and then say things like "There's good luck and bad luck," or "that's fate, hahaha." In the final scene, after Ocdipus has stumbled blindly across the stage out the door the cast does a copulation mime that features a man with an enormous dildo and a woman with pubic hair drawn on her leotard. It is like...
...about Bertram's deceased father, his eyes glaze over as nostalgia takes him back to better times long gone. After Helena has cured him, the two of them execute a dance; he launches into his speech on honor with the vigorous irresistibility of a bulldozer, and gets a fine laugh through the exasperated way he says to Bertram. "Speak. Thine answer." -as though anybody could have gotten a single word in edgewise. Sommer is an unusually intelligent actor; one never doubts that he understands every word he utters...
...congenital brain condition that hampers her ability to read aloud. She still aches at memories of trying to get through London's Hampshire School (founded by her mother). "I remember standing up in class trying to read Shakespeare, and I could hear all the other children sniggering and laughing, because I'd be literally making it up. I remember thinking: when I grow up, people are not going to laugh at me. So I thought, who do they respect now? Elizabeth Taylor or someone. I'll be an actress...
Died. Menasha Skulnik, seventyish, irrepressible Yiddish comedian and Broadway actor (The Fifth Season, The Flowering Peach, The Zulu and the Zayda) for 60 years; in Manhattan. His explanation for his popularity: "People laugh not from the jokes but from the situations I am in. I play the little guy -the schlemiel-against the world...
...wallet I discovered my CRIMSON press pass. "Is this good enough?" I asked. A shake of the head was the only reply. I was finally able to find my bursar's card and after she checked the name against the dorm list I was admitted into my own dorm. Laugh it off, if you will; I tried without much success...