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...terrible violation of everybody else." The reader sees little of such conflict. Insofar as the other characters have any life outside of Scum's ruminations, they are as simple and warm-hearted an assortment of waifs and eccentrics as can be found anywhere this side of William Saroyan...
Indeed, like Saroyan's, Wharton's writing has often seemed like a race between originality and sentimentality. In Scumbler, the sentimentality is way out in front...
...latest composer to blur the line is Gait MacDermot, 55, whose The Human Comedy is currently playing at Joseph Papp's Public Theater in Manhattan. Based on William Saroyan's 1943 novel, Comedy is a sprawling, episodic work that contains 84 separate musical numbers and lasts 2½ hours. MacDermot's plain, open-faced style, a melange of jazz, rock and gospel singing, is ideally suited to the sturdy values of familial love, courage and patriotism that Saroyan so sentimentally celebrated. Just as MacDermot's 1967 Hair resonated in the era of tribal-love rock...
...American drama and film. Introducing the event, N.Y.U.'s chairman of undergraduate drama, Evangeline Morphos, said, "It is with the founding of the Group that the American theater finds its voice." The company's 23 productions included Clifford Odets' Golden Boy and Waiting for Lefty, William Saroyan's My Heart's in the Highlands and Sidney Kingsley's Pulitzer-prizewinning hospital drama Men in White. Its members included Actors John Garfield, Frances Farmer, Morris Carnovsky, Franchot Tone and Lee J. Cobb, Directors-to-Be Elia Kazan and Sidney Lumet, Theorists and Teachers Lee Strasberg...
...handsome exit line today. Gary Gilmore, the murderer executed in Utah in 1977, managed a moment of brisk existentialist machismo when he told the warden, "Let's do it." There was a charm, a mist of the fey overlaying the terror, in the official last words that William Saroyan telephoned to the Associated Press before he died in 1981: "Everybody has got to die, but I have always believed an exception would be made in my case. Now what?" Last fall the British Actor John Le Mesurier dictated to his wife his own death announcement, which...