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...popular store for born-too-late New Yorkers, Butterfly on Eighth Street, stopped selling fake i.d.'s after a Sixty Minutes expose led to their getting busted. Playland, in the heart of Times Square, doesn't make student i.d.'s anymore, and the bold black letters that read "Official Identification" on the cards that they now sell hardly look official. In addition, in order to legally sell fake i.d.'s, Playland has to stamp the cards "For Novelty Use Only...
...Caroline found a small shop next door to Playland that gave her a new identify. Born again, this time in 1964 and in Connecticut, Caroline figured she was in business, but has yet to test her purchase...
...confirmed bachelor who looks a bit like Bert Lahr's Cowardly Lion, McGowan lived in rented apartments for most of his life, but four years ago he bought a house in Georgetown and converted it into a revealing kind of private playland. Pushbuttons control all manner of gadgets: lighting panels on every floor, a laser-disk stereo system that can be turned on by infrared signals from any room. And in the back patio, a Jacuzzi whirlpool bath stands surrounded by fake boulders. McGowan admired the props in the polar bear cage at the National Zoo and ordered some...
Sellars comes into his own in the second act. Futuristic fantasy is more suited to his playland theatrical style. His actors, done up in round bug suits with mops on their heads, race around the stage with shopping carts. The supermarket motif is reinforced in an incessant procession of slides of dog food, toilet paper, peas, and Burry cookies, and in the soothing strains of Muzaked "Hey Jude," "Those Were The Days," and "Lara's Theme." It's tempting to settle back and watch the ads parade by--it may be monotonous but there is a certain sense...
...this was the American student's spring playland, where high school kids try to pass themselves off as collegians, college students try to act like high school kids, and the hotels, bars and discos keep both groups signing travelers' checks fast enough to cause writer's cramp. Where status is measured by the darkness of one's tan, the cut of one's clothes, and the flash of one's car. Where the wide-eyed seek true romance, the native seek experience, and the jaded seek an easy lay. Where everyone wears a swimsuit during the day but nobody spends...