Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...favorite Year definitely has moments of brilliance--the Musketeer sketch and "Welcome to Brooklyn" come to mind--but they are not enough to save the show from its mediocre music, abysmal lyrics and overwrought plot...
Rare performers, like Bogosian, combine many of these charms. His Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead is part sketch, evoking several varieties of his trademark sociopath, and part musing in his own voice about the price of fame and about how the world seems to be going to hell just when he is getting rich enough to enjoy it. His command of language, including the rhythms of scatology and epithet, sometimes soars to the level of David Mamet, and his mutations are always convincing without any need for props or disguises...
...sketch of Hemingway hangs opposite her desk.A friend of her father's dashed it off in a hotelbar in the Spain in the 1950s. Hemingway washaving a drink. He took it over to have it signed.On a piece of hotel stationery a florid hand haswritten "From the Old Man." Once a spontaneousact, it now serves to motivate...
Then there are three new songs written and performed by three Irish musicians with silly names: Gavin Friday, "Man Seezer," and, get this, "Bono." Can you believe it? The biographical sketch says they're all natives of Dublin, and that "Bono" formed a band called U2 with some other people from Dublin back in the '70s. The write-up claims that they have a devoted local following and have put out nearly ten records. I can't believe I've never heard of them! Anyway these songs are pretty good; this guy Bono has a pretty good voice...
...monkeys grouse at their typewriters, condemned to stay there till one of them pounds out Hamlet. A fellow at a restaurant can never get what he wants unless he orders something else, because he is in a twilight funk called "a Philadelphia." In The Universal Language, Ives' warmest, newest sketch, a woman with a speech impediment enrolls in a course for a jabberwocky tongue that only she and her teacher speak: English is "John Cleese," stammering is "tongue Stoppard...