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...phrase like that would ordinarily be accompanied by a raised eyebrow and a sardonic grin. But neither Bronco Billy, the new Clint Eastwood movie, nor Carny, which introduces Robbie Robertson of the Band to the Hollywood fiction film, has so much as a single irony up its workshirt sleeve. They both tell the story of a good ole boy leading his small-top troupe from one tank town to another, juggling dreams of success and threats of eviction, extortion and worse. Add a couple of good buddies, a venal politician or two-and, most important, a little love interest...
...Terry Rex. Word of mouth has already decreed that Terry Won't Talk is the superior play; I would disagree, and add that Terry Rex, the second play in performance, is the heart of Leib's drama, and the first an essential gloss on it. Terry Rex presents Terry (Robertson Dean), the young author of Terry Won't Talk, (which is being performed "downtown"). Terry is tortured by his inability to write, a block he tries to dissolve through both hallucinations induced by lack of sleep and random acts of verbal cruelty toward his girlfriend Kathy (Lisa Sloan...
...star of Terry by Terry, if such an invidious term might be allowed, is Robertson Dean, the Terry of Terry Rex. Whining, puling, sparkling with intelligence and wit, posturing like a talented playwright who was once a very bad high school actor, Dean provokes the paradoxical mixture of sympathy and loathing the role calls for--he is us, but we don't have to like him for it. Lisa Sloan is marvelously attractive and genuine as Kathy Marianne Owen, a consummate actress when intact, is literally hobbled by a huge cast on her leg that forces her to lumber around...
...Marshall, If 2 1 0 1 Pearce, 3b 1 2 1 1 Wark, c 3 1 2 2 TOTALS 24 11 8 9 COLUMBIA (0) Brown, 1b 3 0 1 0 Stukes, If 2 0 0 0 Hanewich 3 0 0 0 Blattman, rf 3 0 0 0 Robertson, 2b 3 0 1 0 Rappa, dh 3 0 1 0 Maguire, cf 3 0 0 0 Rooney, ss 3 0 1 0 Gennaro, 3b 3 0 1 0 TOTALS...
...Wark, c 2 1 1 0 Bowles, ph 1 0 0 0 Blood, ph 1 0 1 1 TOTALS 24 7 6 5 COLUMBIA (0) Brown, 1b 3 0 0 0 Stukes, If 3 0 1 0 Hanewich, c 3 0 0 0 Blattman, p 3 0 0 0 Robertson, 2b 1 0 1 0 Rappa, rf 2 0 0 0 Kennard, cf 2 0 0 0 Meade, ss 2 0 0 0 Karpicki, 3b 2 0 0 0 TOTALS...