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SCUBA DUBA is a flagellatingly funny first play by Novelist Bruce Jay Friedman about an American screwball whose wife runs off with a Negro during a Riviera holiday. Jerry Orbach is perfectly cast as the husband, indiscriminately spraying comic vitriol at countless pet hates. Brenda Smiley is wriggly as a lass with a mini-mind and a Proustian remembrance of flings past...
SCUBA DUBA is a flagellatingly funny first play by Novelist Bruce Jay Friedman about an American screwball whose wife runs off with a Negro during a Riviera holiday. Jerry Orbach is jokingly brilliant as he indiscriminately sprays comic vitriol at countless pet hates. Brenda Smiley is a wriggly delight as a lass with a mini-mind and a Proustian remembrance of flings past...
...comfort there. "Is that why you called, Harold?" bleats his Yiddisha Mama. "You thought your mother needed a little filth thrown in her face all the way from France?" More cheer is shed by a sexy sylph in a mauve postage-stamp bikini. Miss Janus, delectably played by Brenda Smiley, has a Proust-like remembrance of flings past and an impish vein of insecurity: "I wish I could get to the state where I truly believed my behind was beautiful...
...charge still might have stuck had two officials not stood up for the accused teachers and the paper. Colorado's governor John Love said he deplored the teach-ins, but wondered whether "the possibility of a witch hunt" wasn't a greater danger. CU's President, Joseph Smiley, fired off a letter to Dodd demanding proof or a retraction...
...rather over-done and Van Eyck wooden. Claire Bloom elicits just the right amount of love from Burton. And Burton, when he sits waiting to be interviewed for a job, when he makes contact with the Communist agent, and when he looks down from the Berlin wall at Smiley, is superb. All he has to do is whisper, "I have to go early in the morning," and he has a love scene...