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...that jiggles a grotesque web of relationships. As Spellacy discovers, the path of the victim's life crisscrossed his own world of Irish-American Los Angeles just after World War II. It is a lively place where an archbishop plays weekly croquet with Samuel Goldwyn, a hard-luck punk goes to the gas chamber for kidnaping a girl on V-J day, and a leading Catholic contractor short-weights the church. It is also a place where, as Spellacy reminds us, new money and social pretensions cannot disguise the old-country "harps." On the fringes is an assortment...
...Punk, Paul Redford, serves Birsh admirably as the loyal valet. While Birsh is carrying on with his dreams, which always leave him on the verge of dying, Redford maintains order, paying the rent and buying Kellog's Pop Tarts for breakfast...
...Punk is excellent as the gentleman's gentleman. He remains dignified but servile throughout Complex, skillfully playing the audience with his lines and manner. The interchange between Birsh, who is discussing military strategy, and Reynolds, who is singing football songs, is both comic and forceful. Stone gives Redford another side, however, and shows him to be as frustrated as the rest of the characters, desperately dreaming of taking Birsh's money and letting others serve...
Over all, the plot troubles and characterizations balance out in the play's favor, and the script's originality gives both a better footing. Though the play is not generally funny it has a few clever lines, especially its closing one. With Tobie and Punk, Stone shows he has an understanding for embittered escapists and just needs to develop and flesh out his ideas. And most of all, he and his cast take up the challenge of the bizarre and emerge' the better...
...IMMEDIATE RELEASE PLEASE: Iggy Pop will be appearing at the Orpheum Theater on Oct. 14 in Boston. With the release of Iggy's second lp-(sic) "Lust for Life" on RCA records, we find confirmed judgement (sic) in knowing he's defined his stature as 'Godfather of Punk Rock' quoted by many critics (sic). But as this lp and tour may prove 'Is there Rock after Punk?'." (sic, sic, sic, sic, sic, sic, sic, sic.) What you just read is the kind of sleazy prose that I have to slodge through every week-and I don't make a cent...