Word: vaudvillian
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...bang. Roeg (The Man Who Fell to Earth, Performance) opens with a tantalizing series of shots: The Actress (names are no more specific--this is, after all, a fairytale) prepares to shoot the famous skirt-blowing scene from The Seven Year Itch. Bystanders leer and sigh, particularly a vaudvillian duo manning the wind machine beneath the grating...
...house by himself. Scalamont, cast as both John the Bapost and Judas, nandies madness subtly the switch from Christ's right-hand man to His betrayer, gradually separating himself from the other joyful, rag-clad actors. He easily outshines James Weatherstone, who is uninspiring as Jesus, and in their vaudvillian duet. "All for the Best," Scalamoni dominates the stage. Surprisingly, since his is the outstanding performance in the show, Scalamont is only an alternate for Rich Hebert, who usually plays the role...
...middle class reached for alternative ways out. Holywood became their one-dimen-sional Mecca, dance marathons and polesitting were popularized, and newspapers began running columns of advice for lost souls. West's last three novels, Miss Lonelyhearts, A Cool Million and The Day of the Locust, use these vaudvillian antics not satirically, but with an eye to the deep pain that necessitated them...
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