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...Hallelujah! Hallelujah! I'm alive!" So spoke Jimmy Porter, the cold, cauterizing antihero of John Osborne's 1956 play Look Back in Anger. And so might an American viewer today appraise the three major TV networks, where the individual voice tends to get lost in the Valium murmur of a hundred soap sellers, newscasters and tough private eyes. For the unique noise of a writer's whirring mind or an actor's seductive rhetoric, one could only turn in gratitude to PBS and its Great Performances and Theater in America series. Now there is another venue...
Except that one door is adamantly stuck. It is one more maddening problem for the director (Paul Eddington), who divides his time between lechery and Valium. He has to cope with a woozy old ham (Michael Aldridge) who makes only two kind of entrances: pre-cue and post-cue. "I thought I heard my voice," he says blearily. And then there is the Stanislavski Method actor who wants a profound psychological reason as to why he has to exit with a plate of sardines...
David Becker, preppie and Viet Nam vet, sees himself as Prince Valium. Becker nobly advises a neophyte buyer to get out of town and stay out. Then he admits, "It certainly was about as close as coke dealers could ever come to walking old ladies across busy intersections...
...this life of dazzle and glitter ends, typically, with Spielberg, wearing a body shirt, hopping into bed at 8:15 with a carton of take-out tacos, to read scripts and watch TV. He falls asleep watching Nightline. Says he: "TV is video Valium...
...corporate power and avarice, from feudalism through the Pullman strike and on to the "hogs" "David Stockman watched feed on the carcass of the New Deal this summer. And there is the horror of so many individual lives without purpose: the grinding misery of the hopelessly poor: the Valium cum General Hospital somnambulism of the "comfortable...