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Buckley predicted that the contest would go "right down to the wire." He said he was "fighting a country-wide Democratic sweep...
...horses, by the way, are simply tall men in chestnut track suits. On their feet are strutted hooves about 4 in. high. On their heads are airy, stylized masks of interlaced leather and silver wire. These possess such hieratic dignity and beauty that a special citation should be awarded Scenery Designer and Costumer John Napier. How could these noble animals be maimed by a boy who revered them? For answers, Playwright Shaffer digs into his rather voluminous bag of stereotypes. Alan's mother is a frigid religious hysteric, compellingly played by Frances Sternhagen...
...does she pull her punch lines backstage. On an upcoming show, Rhoda suspects that she's pregnant. The script called for her to say to the doctor: "I'm 33-I've just got under the wire, huh?" Valerie complained, "Hey, people get married at 33. What do we say to them?" The joke was expunged...
Bachelor Broadmoore looks like a daguerreotype of Great-Grandpapa. Sporting a straw boater, spats, walking stick, wire-rimmed pince-nez, and suits copied from turn-of-the-century magazine illustrations, he uses a Gladstonian vocabulary, reserving for his strongest expletives such terms as "Oh perdition!" and "Balderdash!" He spurns television, the telephone, central heating, refrigeration, indoor plumbing and all literature published hi the past 60 years. Thoroughly true to his lifestyle, he supports himself by repairing player pianos, Victrolas, nickelodeons, and other fin de siecle artifacts, drawing customers from all over the state...
Broadmoore, the son of a Cincinnati wine broker, had a conventional boyhood until, at 13, he began reading 19th century catalogues. "I was attracted by the suspenders and collars," he explains, "I wanted a gold watch and chain and wire-rimmed spectacles instead of plastic ones." As he acquired the accouterments of the past, "the magnetic grip of this way of life began to settle on me." At Bard College, where he spent three years, he decorated and refurnished his room. "It was the epitome of Victorian gloom," he recalls...