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...supercharged atrocity by Hieronymus Bosch. In the foreground a man accused of seducing a teen-age girl while he was President of the country has just re-entered it as a saint. Perón is flanked on one side by his third wife, Isabelita, 42, once a nightclub performer in Panama. On the other side of el Lider is Lopecito-Jose Lopez Rega-a former army corporal who was elevated to Minister of Social Welfare because of his skill in reading the stars, having selected the days of Perón's two returns to Argentina...
...travels with her, to Istanbul in the flesh and into her past in reminiscence, that initiate him. Surviving one shocker after another, his stolid primness relaxes into tolerance. Augusta tells him that his legal mother was a virgin, he is accosted by whores in a sleazy Paris nightclub while a stripper twirls platinum nipples in the spotlights. It is as if Aunt Augusta were Henry's wicked fairy...
From the slovenly housewife and third-rate chiropractor in his first Broadway hit, Come Back, Little Sheba (1950), to the commonplace women of the Pulitzer prizewinning Picnic (1953), to the wistful nightclub singer and the cowboy of Bus Stop (1955), to the ordinary family life in The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1957), Inge drew on his own Kansas boyhood for "some very sustaining memories of people in their sad, funny, futile, courageous and frightened ways of meeting life and trying to cope with it." When his engaging but minor talent began to fail, he turned to Hollywood...
Though the Watergate revelations grow grimmer each week, nightclub audiences these days must be getting the impression that the debacle is the world's funniest subject. Comics across the country are milking Watergate for every plausible or implausible laugh that it is worth. At least a dozen records and albums featuring Watergate humor have already been released, and countless funnymen have built acts around the scandal...
...Watergate humor is strained, and some of it is aimed below the belly laugh. A few radio stations have refused to air Watergate records, not only because of the cruelty of the material but because of its inanity. But for nightclub comics, no end to the use of Watergate jokes is in sight. In fact, Mark Russell says that the trend has just started. "They're moving past the bit players to the main...