Word: loved
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Love," sad to say, has become a modern-day cliche. Writing about love has turned into the pasttime of high school poets. The literary romance with love that bloomed more than a century ago has withered, replaced by triteness and a suspicion of sincerity. Yet Da, advertised as "an irresistible comedy" portrays paternal--and filial--love with remarkable realism and sensitivity. Da is irresistible because its love has charmisma: it is cheery and optimistic, cute and funny, honest and poignant. Superbly acted by Barnard Hughes, who played the title role 549 times of Broadway before hitting the road, this version...
STRANGE MEN write plays. Their heads fill with babbling voices that plague them when they eat, distract them when they speak and "tsk" when they make love. No matter how many plays a man writes, some of these internal voices refuse to die. They are his "family" voices, the voices of growing...
...listening to the voices in his head. Like most of his other works, Da is autobiographical, but it does more than bring to life the childhood memories of a middle-aged playwright: it beautifully recreates a father, typical in his unworldliness, his humility, and the sincerity of his love for his only son, Charlie...
...life represents one ideal of the 1960's: he is sensitive to the land, to flowers and fruit, ignorant of political reality, forever optimistic, and certain that sincere love will cure all evils. It is a seductive philosophy...
Soon cars gather around the trailer giving it some clubishness. I imagine its members as reckless romantics, with hearts that pump them out of planes, with a love for life so great that they're dying to risk it. But they slowly roll out of their cars, struggle to stand erect and stretch and scratch their heads, stomachs or buttocks. They yawn and speak of last night, of all that beer. A paunchy man, dressed in blue jeans and a dirty white sweat shirt ambles towards us. "You here to jump?" A moment of silence. "Well my, my name...