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...women whose strengths are overcome by their yearning for acceptance, whose main fear is that they'll end up picking tomatoes for a hard-driving foreman, "being swept in among those countless lives lost hour by captive hour scratching at the miserable earth." Billy Tully and Ernie Munger are also far from the images of corrupt heavyweights fostered by Hollywood liberals like Abe Polonsky or Robert Rossen, who use boxing as an easy target-its rottenness symbolizing the festering passions of a nation. Tully and Munger are not fall guys for reformists, but men of substance, with more than...
...grafted to this landscape. An aging (29) lightweight, lush and former local contender, Billy Tully grieves over his split with his wife, who occupies his flophouse dreams and gives him a convenient excuse for not fighting. Then one day, finding himself in a Y.M.C.A. gym, he meets Ernie Munger, an 18-year-old would-be welterweight and sends him to his own long-suffering ex-manager, Ruben Luna. This should be some sort of beginning. But the three are going precisely no place. Tully dries out for one more fight. He wins-but finds his victory meaningless. He wanders...
...John Munger as the Duke was the symbol of the conflict. His lines are grandiloquent -- flatulent as a bursting pig's blatter, but grandiloquent. Munger proclaims them with full voice, but he is physically too small for the part. There is something wonderfully absurd about his talk of war and glory. If he is meant to be funny, the audience should be given some hint of it before the whole affair becomes so ridiculous that laughter is the only...
...everything director Robert V. Edgar does. "The Night the Bed Fell," for example, is a wonderful short story, a classic, but too much a narration to succeed on stage. "Gentlemen Shoppers," a happy drunken burlesque of modern fashion salons, should play well, but some sloppy acting by John R. Munger, Christopher Hart and Tom Popovich make it a bit tedious...
First there is the problem of age -- a problem which director John Munger has found no solution for whatsoever. His Volpone, played by Peter Goldberg, could possibly be pushing 30, but that's it. The parasite Mosca, played by Chris Baker, looks unmistakably teenage (he even has a preppie haircut to match). Voltore and Corvino, who need only appear verging on middle...