Word: roc
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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FIRE! by John Roc, pseudonym for a new American playwright. An allegory about angst...
Then the director could dissolve to Miami Beach's Eden Roc Hotel and a suite decorated in Versailles schlock...
...joined to gether but to be rent asunder. "We must love one another or die," wrote W. H. Auden. Fire! proclaims that love is dead, God is dead, and man is dying. The playwright is a onetime actor now living in Europe who has adopted the pseudonym John Roc; he is a demi-Beckett who does not await Godot but screams at the heavens precisely be cause they are empty. He is sometimes pretentious, often confusing, and lavish with lavender words, but his drama rips into an audience with volcanic force...
...Roc's Prometheus - here called Jason - brings fire as a consuming vengeance to burn each human heart to a cinder and finally reduce the earth it self to an ember. Since Jason also doubles as a Jesus figure, there is a persistent and annoying ambiguity as to which identity is being invoked at any given moment...
Similarly, about a year ago, Johnny abruptly canned his manager of eight years, Al Bruno. The story is that the intricate sound and tape effects that go with Carson's cabaret act got snarled by a technician three shows running during an engagement at Miami's Eden Roc. Johnny called up New York, says a friend, actually sobbing. "They didn't laugh," he said. Carson blamed Bruno and bought out his contract...