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...prep-school accents. He earned the wry nickname "Fast Eddie" at Manhattan's Trinity School-after a dissolute pool shark in The Hustler, whom the studious Cox scarcely resembles-because he was a stickler for deadlines when editor of the school paper. He drives an old Ford station wagon and regularly runs up the six flights to his Cambridge apartment. ("This building is full of elderly widows," he says. "It makes it quiet, all right.") After graduation in 1972, Cox will enter the Army with an ROTC commission earned at Princeton; following that, he plans to practice public-service...
...night in London in 1905, part of his act was to chase a careering stagecoach and "tomahawk" a paleface, who turned out to be none other than King Edward VII out on a lark. There were other shows and later movies where he did war-dance bits and attacked wagon trains. "I am not ungrateful for what the white man has given me," says Chief Red Fox, "but the ghosts of my ancestors stalk me at times in the dark and congregate around me when I meditate in solitude...
...empty room is emptier than yours, said the masked man as he rode off into the night. And you knew he was right, so you hitched a ride on the Penn-Central, so you hitched your wagon to a star, so you hitched up your jeans and waited for godot. Empty rooms are relative, so you slid up and down the legs of the glass table looking for the cake that said Eat Me, and waited for your prince to come. So you scribbled your initials in the dust beneath the table, so you scribbled his initials in the steamiest...
Backstage at Comes a Day he got drunk and trashed his dressing room; he broke one of his hands hitting some scenery during The Wall when he could no longer tolerate one of his costars. After a period on the wagon, he got drunk and, knowing he could not perform well, deliberately missed a performance of The Andersonville Trial. During rehearsals of Plaza Suite, in later years, Maureen Stapleton confided to Mike Nichols: "I'm so frightened of George I don't know what to do." Nichols replied: "My dear, the whole world is frightened of George...
...plotting. Plots, in fact, are so seasonally repetitive and events so frequently domestic a few readers, boys especially, find the books a drag. What drama there is comes from the constant onslaughts of nature. Beginning in the Wisconsin forests. Laura, her sisters and their parents trek west by wagon into Kansas (Little House on the Prairie), then up to Minnesota (On the Banks of Plum Creek") and finally west again to South Dakota, beset along the way by grasshopper plagues, blizzards, rivers in spate and midsummer droughts that "cook the grains in the milk." Treated with a minimum of sentimentalizing...