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...often what passes for wit is merely the insertion of brand names or pop- culture references designed to get a rise out of the baby-boomer audience. "For a guy who knows all the words to In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, you're starting to sound an awful lot like Pat Boone," says Murphy. Or: "I've been carrying this kid for longer than Bonanza was on the air." At Phil's, the wateringhole where Washington's movers and shakers supposedly mingle, the running gags about famous patrons ("I keep telling Koppel to stop bringing in that garbage") amount...
...with most playwrights who score a success the first time out, Povod was hammered by reviewers for his next effort, La Puta Vida, a trio of one-acts depicting sexual depravity and family murder. "Those guys have no contact with people like us, so how can they judge you fairly?" says Povod of his critics...
...playing at the downtown branch of Manhattan's Circle in the Square Theater, is very funny indeed. Whether grimly trying to keep up with the quickening abandon of a mock Hungarian czardas, or haplessly segueing from Verdi's "Anvil Chorus" to Iron Butterfly's In-a-Gadda-Da-Vida, or just getting down and funky with a little tune of their own called Beaver Ball at the Bug Club, the Oil City Symphony lets the good times roll, and in the process skewers every high school music program in the country...
...York investment analyst tells an Italian woman from Houston and her 18-year-old son. "Whether man finds things on Mars is a reflection of whether he can find them in his subconscious," opines a crystals dealer from Santa Cruz, Calif. At another table, former All-Star Pitcher Vida Blue is buried in a book; at still another, a Balinese dancer chats with the former lead flutist of the London Symphony Orchestra...
Only seven other major-league pitchers have won the MVP award since the Cy Young Award for outstanding pitcher was instituted in 1956. Two of those seven were relief pitchers. The last starter to take both awards was Vida Blue of the Oakland...