Word: loner
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...voice, he has recorded 35 albums of his own songs, and last year he wrote the scores for two movies. It was not until last week, though, that McKuen got that ultimate symbol of success: his own TV special, a one-man show on NBC, called "Rod McKuen: The Loner...
Rootless Childhood. The "Loner" title was corny but appropriate. McKuen has led his life mostly apart from others. He was born into the Depression in a Salvation Army hospital in Oakland, Calif., shortly after his father had deserted the family. His mother worked as a waitress, a telephone operator and a dime-a-dance hostess until her marriage to a "cat-skinner"-the operator of Caterpillar tractors on Government road projects. McKuen was hauled from one construction site to another throughout the West and Northwest until, at age eleven, he split from his family and spent four years drifting...
Saturday, May 10 ROD McKUEN: THE LONER (NBC, 8:30-9 p.m.). McKuen, poet, songwriter and recording star, puts on a one-man show...
...many violinists, success means polishing the personal image and sticking to proven works from the standard repertory. Even his best friends admit that Violinist Paul Zukofsky does not have much of a personal image. He is a sad-eyed, dour, defensive loner who will run from a circle of party chatterers rather than make small talk. When he emerges from the wings to perform, it is not with the elegant stride of a Milstein or the open-armed warmth of a Stern. It is with a rapid, open-toed, Chaplinesque shuffle. When Zukofsky plays, his music often consists...
HUUI, HUUI, by Anne Burr, is no shining example of the playwright's art. But Producer-Director Joseph Papp of New York's Shakespeare Festival manages to make it bright enough to provide an evening of unusual interest. Barry Primus plays an eccentric loner with a father fixation who utters, "Huui, hum" in moments of distress. Two women, charmed by his innocence, try to change him, but he eludes them only to meet final disillusionment...