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...documents on the country, as well as penning eight novels and numerous articles on the Viet Cong; in Lubbock, Texas. Pike first went to Saigon in 1960 as a government information officer, and became an authority on the communists and America's involvement in the Vietnam War. DIED. RAY STRICKLYN, 73, gay actor, author and publicist best remembered for his portrayal of Tennessee Williams in the one-man show Confessions of a Nightingale; in Los Angeles. When the show opened, Stricklyn was representing, among others, Bette Davis and Elizabeth Taylor for John Springer Associates. His 1958 performance...
...Broadway show was assembled by Ray Stricklyn, who also enacts Williams, and Charlotte Chandler, who visited the playwright for her book of interviews The Ultimate Seduction. The result is a hybrid of the public and the private man: Stricklyn speaks in the guise of Williams addressing a reporter, so his rambling 90-min. monologue is unmistakably a performance. Even so, there are passages of naked confession. The time is Williams' declining years, and the prevailing tone is graveyard jollity, dancing at the abyss. Like authentic conversation, Nightingale veers abruptly from revelation to chitchat; at one moment Williams self-justifyingly remarks...
Unlike, say, Hal Holbrook as Mark Twain, Stricklyn attempts to re-create a face, voice and manner that many of his spectators vividly remember. His Williams turns out to be less a physical reincarnation than a psychological interpretation, and on that level it engrossingly succeeds. From the start, Williams' art was personal, almost claustrophobic in its griefs and grudges; yet his chosen literary form, the drama, required the constant presence of others to act and direct and design his plays, above all to receive them. Stricklyn gives poignant life to Williams' yearning for the world to look...
Thus five years have passed away, Joe's sickness become so serious that his attending physician is very anxious of his health going to ruin by alcohol. But his only son Joby Chanpin (Ray Stricklyn) hear at that as news, he calls Ann back home from N.Y. and abuses his mother of indifference for her husband strongly. Be that as it may, Joe has a good time with his son, daughter and wife for a few days but happiness is uncertain...
...committed in the name of power. He has broken up his daughter's love match with a trumpet player, and let his wife put the girl (Diane Varsi) through what looks suspiciously like an abortion. He has twisted his son's life by forcing the boy (Ray Stricklyn) to give up his music and go to Yale. And he has wasted his own life by spending it with a woman he does not love. And she? "I've wasted my life on a failure!'' she screams...
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