Word: schnooks
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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PROMISES, PROMISES, by Neil Simon (The Odd Couple). Starring Jerry Orbach, the frenetic schnook from Scuba Duba. Directed by Robert Moore, who staged the off-Broadway hit The Boys in the Band. Stage version of the movie The Apartment...
Hope, locked into a star image that no fiction will penetrate, nominally portrays an Oregon real estate schnook who calls a wrong number and soon has Elke bathing at his remote woodland cottage. "The biggest thing in bathtubs since rings," he says, snatching every conversational gambit from a store of one-line gags that often sound like a prelude to a friendly word from his sponsor. As Hope's mop-topped maid, Phyllis cleans up the house, dirties up the jokes, and delivers her own brand of kitcheny self-deprecation. There is never the slightest doubt that her next...
...clichés to make it high Campfire. Runty Dingus Magee, who goes around building a reputation as a desperado by taking credit for other people's crimes, is sometimes a delightful composite of all western bad men; at other times, he is merely a hapless, scheming little schnook. As a result, parts of the book are rollickingly funny parody, while other parts are slapstuck...
...leading Freudian, cunningly assists his hero to find familiar occasions of guilt in the mythological murders of a father figure and a surrogate son. The father figure, an aged Japanese urologist, helps Finkelstone to discharge his guilt for what happened at Hiroshima by consenting to sterilize the silly schnook; the urologist's death is only casually connected with the affair, but Finkelstone greedily takes the blame for it. The surrogate son, a Sioux scholarship student turned beatnik, helps Finkelstone to engage in hallucinogenic mushroom-munching; the beatnik's death is only remotely related to the hero...
Item, Plot: Choose something with what they call "wacky charm" (like, laughable English wife of American schnook hooks up with gruff Italian husband of American cutie, because schnook and cutie have already hooked themselves up, and English and Italian want to effect a decoupling, an' what happens but that they [Anglo-Italian] fall in love, an' decide to throw away all their money, an' get all happy and mystic and meaningless an' stuff...