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Paradoxically, a strange impotency also wafts through Michael Weller's extraordinarily naturalistic dialogue. No one tells the right jokes, no one makes the right phone call, no one finishes a project before the next begins and ultimately, Weller reveals that the youth of the '60s have, in the interest of self, failed to spawn a new generation with their former vitality. Weller captured that spirit perfectly in his first hit, Moonchildren, about college students in the '60s. Loose Ends surpasses Moonchildren in scope and finesse...
...Porter (N) 31:27; 4. Collins (Col) 31:28; 5. Olds (Pr); 6. Kovach (N) 31:37; 7. Tatananni (D) 31:39; 8. Wehrwein (Y) 31:42; 9. Hofmann (Col) 31:42; 10. Miers (Col) 31:43; 11. Loomie (Col) 31:44; 12. Donahue (N) 31:50; 13. Weller (Penn) 31:51; 14. McNally (Col) 31:53; 15. Eichner...
...first red-shirted harrier to cross the finish-line was John Murphy, and even he did not show up until eighth place, with a time of 26:18, thirty seconds behind pacesetter Sam Weller from Penn...
Scenarist Weller is best known for Moonchildren, his fine, reflective play about lost renegades of the '60s. He has written Hair as a witty cross between A Midsummer Night's Dream and the 1949 MGM musical On the Town. The story begins as Claude (John Savage, of The Deer Hunter), an Oklahoma farm boy, arrives in Manhattan for a final day of liberty before induction into the Army. Like the World War II sailors of On the Town, Claude plans to take in the tourist sights, but he is quickly seduced by more hedonistic pleasures. Falling in with...
...terms of balletic myth. The passions of a generation are poured into a single setting, Central Park, on a single enchanted night. The park becomes an idealized, but never sentimentalized, recreation of the brief-lived Utopias that once sprang up in Haight-Ashbury, Woodstock and the East Village. Yet Weller does not get carried away by his conceit. His characters talk like people, not platitudinous flower children, and their all too innocent dream does not last forever. Eventually the tribe must leave its forest idyl behind to confront the wintry realities of a society gripped by an irrational...