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...Critic-"Conceiver" Kenneth Tynan (Oh! Calcutta!), Entrepreneur Hugh Hefner (Playboy), and Director Roman Polanski (Knife in the Water) collaborate to make a movie, what will its title be? Macbeth! Shooting is scheduled to start in northern Wales next week with a script by Polanski, Tynan and Shakespeare, and a cast of unknowns, young enough to make the Weird Sisters not too unattractive with their clothes...
What on earth do the Beatles, Harold Wilson, Twiggy and Kenneth Tynan have in common? In their variously fashionable ways, all have been trapped within "the bubble of compulsive up-to-dateness." They are Neophiliacs-lovers of "the new"-and they are doomed to live out the damnation of all ultramodern men: "Keeping pace with pace...
...message is also for export. Chorusing Kenneth Tynan's epigram ("Life begins tomorrow"), Booker addresses to Neophiliacs everywhere a sad cautionary tale out of Ecclesiastes: "There is no new thing under...
...second play on this double bill, Jakey Fat Boy, is a hilarious putdown of the hopped-up cult of being "with it." Much of the humor revolves around malicious In jokes about Kenneth Tynan, deviser of Oh! Calcutta! Jake, the hero (O'Connor), is obsessed by Tynan, referring to him as being "uptight with now," or else identifying with him: "I am up there with Ken Tynan and all the great lovers, all the major erotic figures." What Jake actually is, of course, is autoerotic, an onanistic intellectual voyeur...
...Calcutta!, devised by Kenneth Tynan...