Word: wouk
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...Caine Mutiny Court-Marshal This revival prompts a question: Herman Wouk, what were you thinking? In the context of his great sea saga - published as a novel in 1951 and turned into a 1954 film, then this play - the court-marshal of the psycho Captain Queeg is a demonstration of what happens when real-world wartime chaos gets translated into the cool legal niceties of the courtroom. But unmoored from its seagoing prologue, all that talk about Queeg's obsession with shirttails and strawberries lacks any dramatic punch. And why make so much of the betrayal of Lt. Keefer...
Things that made my father happy: Perry Mason; any Broadway musical starring Gwen Verdon; fishing for blues with doctor cronies off Montauk, on New York's Long Island; Corona Corona cigars; a straw skimmer hat; Herman Wouk. Things that drove him up the wall: misinformation about medicine in movies or on TV; strangers calling him by his first name; my frequent playing of Screamin' Jay Hawkins' I Put a Spell on You; and me, at least before I achieved...