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...sync with reality, as in a dubbed movie. This is at the root of Rooted, the first full-length play by Australia's Alexander Buzo, 28, which is being given its U.S. premiere by Connecticut's Hartford Stage Company. Buzo is no tracing-paper mimic; he is linked to Ionesco and Pinter by an intuitive kinship of mind, spirit and talent...
...actor Ralph Carter cannot help stealing the show. The program says that in school Ralph "played the Prince in Cinderella and Peter Cottontail in an Easter play." Well Ralph has parlayed his prior experience into a fortune of acting virtuosity. It is fantastic to see this miniature human being mimic the mannerisms of his elders so exactly. At one point he tells about a racist insult he received at a neighborhood store and then brings down the house when he turns to the audience with mock exasperation and says, "I just can't get no respect." Lenny Bari does...
...other hand, Nixon! can boast the work of a fine Nixon mimic in the person of Glenn Stover. Although in his cockier moments he does tend to take on the accents of a Hubert Humphrey instead, for the most part Stover's impersonation of Nixon--the nervous hands, the calculated expressions, the condescending attempts at explanation--are right on target. In fact, there is almost a naivete about this caricature that would make Nixon endearing if he weren't already so incredibly appalling. One moment he's attempting to ingratiate himself with Chairman Mao by telling a few Japanese jokes...
Dixon relies solely on visual impact; he makes no attempt to out-Milhous Comedian David Frye, an uncanny mimic. Dixon is often mistaken for Nixon on the street, and though he has never been introduced to the President, he did meet Julie Eisenhower in Washington recently. Says Dixon: "She reminded me of my own 22-year-old daughter Kathy." Well, of course...
L.B.J. could mimic Bill Fulbright ("the stud duck of the opposition"), Ev Dirksen and even Bob Kennedy until your sides ached with laughter. He knew men as no other national leader did. He knew their bank accounts, their mistresses, foibles, skills, their very hearts. Just how did he manipulate the Senate in 1957 to produce the first civil rights bill in almost a hundred years? For those of us in the gallery, it was an awesome display of leadership. How did he feel, and where did he go, and with whom did he talk when the moment came...