Word: sids
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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HARVARD THEATERGOERS have seen their fair share of bizarre dramatic mutations--these days, no one dares balk at Shakespeare staged as a Sid Vicious rock opera or Brecht in a dormitory bathtub. Unfortunately, original student-written plays never seem to find equal stage time...
Understandably, Shepard's Follies lacks the tightness and structural discipline of well-established works, Sid Vicious and bathtubs notwithstanding. But while much virtue lies in Provost's and Litt's creative endeavors, and while both audience and actors seemed to enjoy the new material, Shepard's Follies falls short in its lack of professional polish...
...West, the author of Miss Lonelyhearts. The two men were close friends, then relatives when Perelman married West's sister Laura. It was not, Herrmann reports, a conventional union. Early on, the Perelmans went to Hollywood, where a fellow scenarist, Dashiell Hammett, once noted, "Last night I ran into Sid . . . and wound up by doing a little pimping for him." Soon afterward, Hammett and Laura had a brief fling. It was, Herrmann speculates, "perhaps her way of punishing Sid for his numerous infidelities...
...school with a very large endowment has something to do with this luxury. And if, like me, you made the mistake of actually smiling into the camera that first September--and wound up carrying in your wallet for a year a picture of yourself looking like a Sid and Marty Kroft character--that's good...
...excavation has provided ample proof of Kovacs' prodigious achievement. Not that all of it is funny. Much of Kovacs' comedy strikes a viewer today as rather obvious and crudely executed. Steve Allen, another pioneer of live TV comedy, was a more dexterous verbal wit; Sid Caesar a more inspired sketch comic. Kovacs' contribution lay elsewhere. No performer, for one thing, was more at ease in front of the TV camera or treated it with such relaxed irreverence. Kovacs' live shows were an engaging mix of scripted bits (with such recurring characters as the lisping poet Percy Dovetonsils) and raucous improvisation...