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Starr was born by the Red River in Vernon, Texas, on July 21, 1946. In the tiny town of Thalia, his father served as minister while sidelining as a barber to make ends meet. Before Kenneth was out of elementary school, the family, including his older sister Billie and brother Jerry, moved to San Antonio. His mother Vannie recalls that "he was spoiled because he was the baby. I had to get that out of him, and it took me some time to do that...
Alexandra Thalia Polites...
...wonderfully served by 12 actors (who mix German and English) from Hamburg's experimental Thalia Theater. As Kathchen, Annette Paulmann is truly incomparable: it's safe to say that nothing like her combination of sexuality and idiocy has ever been seen before. As Wilhelm, Stefan Kurt is equally good with both Buster Keaton looniness and the melodramatic pathos into which he collapses after losing his mind (and, again, his trousers). Nobody has ever made sliminess more winning than Dominique Horwitz as Pegleg. True to his show-biz heart, he doesn't disappear inside his 10-ft.-tall black coffin until...
...figure is the director, not the writer or actor, and thus style, imagery and "concept" dominate the more human appeals of having a story and finding an emotional way to tell it. Performers are often treated like puppets. In staging Brecht's A Man's a Man for the Thalia Theater of Hamburg, director Katharina Thalbach encased the actors in masks and bodysuits so that they resembled cartoons. Playwrights, too, often find their vision subordinated to directors'. This year's Theatertreffen included two contemporary plays that were in the 1988 or 1989 festivals, on the basis that the 1990 productions...
Well, sure. What we have here is middle age, a ton of bricks anywhere, but a real stunner to Duane in Thalia, Texas. Life and geography have not prepared him for the existential blahs. He was a high school football hero of sorts in McMurtry's wry 1966 novel The Last Picture Show. Since then he has made a fair-size bundle in the oil business, but aerobic spending and the collapse of crude prices have left him ear-deep in debt, and sinking. He doesn't much care. He and his wife Karla are both good-looking and healthy...