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...Venus de Milo, has been criticized by discriminating voyeurs for changing Pamela from a sexpot to a Gucci Two-Shoes; she replies, "I didn't want to upstage my own performance." Charlene Tilton, 20, plays Lucy, the Ewing niece, as if she were really the love child of Mae West. The British press has a nickname for this tiny terror of Southfork: "the Poison Dwarf." When asked her response to those who call Dallas classy trash, she laughs with wide, wicked eyes: "Honey, they can call it whatever they want...
...Civic Center, the former New York Jet nimbly slipped through some opening-night tight spots. When upstaged by a squealing pig, he simply outbellowed the boorish ham. Later, when his pitch wandered way offsides in a love duet with Hee-Haw's Misty Rowe as Daisy Mae, off-Broadway Joe just laughed along with the twittering crowd and won a round of sympathetic applause. "Singing is a new experience, and there's lots of room for improvement," he admitted later. But shucks, said the pride of Dogpatch, "the people surely liked the show...
Enter her new lawn-distance neighbor. Hannah Mae Bindler (Eileen Brennan), a Lone-Star State emigree, is wearing a garish outfit, and her accessories are an unstoppered tongue and the musk of a rampant libido. Culture clash soon gives way to kaffeeklatsch. Maude reveals that her husband is off on one of his adulterous secretarial safaris. Despite having suffered the occasional infidelity, Hannah Mae claims that her husband Carl Joe "don't take a breath unless I say, 'Carl Joe, breathe...
There are only three actors in the play, but many characters. Cephus is attended by Woman One and Woman Two, who multiply themselves in various roles throughout the evening. Woman One (L. Scott Caldwell) is Cephus' conscience, and principally his childhood sweetheart Pattie Mae. Jailed for refusing to fight in Viet Nam, Cephus loses his farm for back taxes. He gravitates to Woman Two (Michele Shay), a big-city temptress. The city shatters Cephus' moral gyroscope and drives him to drink and drugs, but in a finale that O. Henry might have relished, he gets to go back...
...Holliday plays her, Flo is television's Mae West: sex is the one thing she has on her mind, but, as she talks about it, in her barbecued accent, it is funny as well as fun. Rarely have a wiggle and a leer seemed so innocent. In this, her opening show, she returns to what must be the pokiest spot in the prairies, where the chief attraction is an indoor mall with an outdoor escalator. The local bar, where she spent the happiest days of her merrily misguided youth, is on the verge of bankruptcy...