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Dates: during 1970-1979
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Within days Chicagoans were fully briefed on every sickening detail of the brawny contractor's Dr.-Jekyll-and-Mr.-Hyde past. His friends and neighbors knew him as a kind, gregarious man who would bring them baskets of fruit as presents, shovel their walks unasked, throw enormous backyard parties for hundreds of friends. The papers ran blow-ups of a card identifying him as a Democratic precinct captain, accolades from fellow Jaycee club members and testimonials from friends who had benefited from Gacy's generosity...
...accuracy's sake, it should be pointed out that in the article "The Quandary of the Cults" [Dec. 18], the photo captioned "Founder L. Ron Hubbard" of the Church of Scientology was not Mr. Hubbard at all. While the writer did have the sense to make a rational distinction between the Peoples Temple and other newer religions, he also stereotyped newer religions under a now meaningless banner of cults. Certainly the Romans too had quandaries with the cult of Christianity. One can only wonder how the media might have reported that story...
...Gacy was a Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, his neighbors seemed to recall only Dr. Jekyll. At his home in Norwood Park, he threw an annual block party for as many as 400 people. He delighted in dressing up in a "Pogo the Clown" costume that he had designed for himself, and often he wore it in making the rounds of children's wards in hospitals. In 1975 Gacy became a trustee of the Norwood Park Township Street Lighting District. Says Robert Martwick, a Democratic Party committeeman: "He was always available for any chore, washing windows, setting up chairs...
...results are mixed, with the elder Wallachs emerging most successfully. There will doubtless be some who will now find the passivity of the survival tactic Anne Frank's father imposed on his family less than heroic, but as Mr. Frank, Eli Wallach communicates the virtue of kindly patience. He makes one feel that for a gently reared bourgeois family headed by such a man, his claustrophobic choice offered the best, most reasonable hope of enduring the Holocaust. Anne Jackson brings spirited understanding to the role of a woman caught in the primal conflict between mother and adolescent daughter under...
Fame took its time, but when it finally arrived it compensated for past neglect. Orton made his breakthrough in 1964 with Entertaining Mr. Shane. Like all of Orton's comedies, it teased polite British hypocrisy, and even audiences of the '60s were shocked by his placement of outrageous behavior in a conventional setting. Loot followed in 1966, and What the Butler Saw posthumously in 1969. Success liberated Orton's talent, and in the months before he was killed, his prodigious mind was bursting with what Lahr calls "gorgeous, wicked fun." What Orton might have accomplished remains...