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...juxtaposition of the horrifying and the hilarious forms part of the common round of existence-and of this startling play. British Writer Peter Nichols constructs a comedy of anguish, extracting laughter from the uncomic plight and blistering pain of two parents (Albert Finney and Zena Walker) whose ten-year-old daughter is a spastic...
...performance of sustained pyrotechnics, Finney does petrifyingly funny parodies of a Viennese neurologist who first assessed Joe's brain damage and of a pipe-sucking Anglican clergyman who is quite unstrung to hear God described as "a manic-depressive rugby footballer." To Joe Egg's mother, Sheila (Zena Walker), the child has become another pet to coddle along with cats, birds and Bri himself, who has never quite grown...
...Zena Gollum, an unMethodical actress of great power and appetite, takes an instant liking to Yank's play and to Yank. Following the pattern set by virtually all other O'Hara women, she is in a hotel room with him a few hours after they met. But after a brief affair, Yank decides that he will not put himself to the tests of theatrical glory and aggression in bed. He runs away to Vermont, begins his next play, and starts looking for other women...
...college girls only wants $50 a throw but dies in a car smashup. The local postmistress tries to seal, stamp and deliver Yank to herself, but he refuses. He stays loyal to the only thing he believes in-his talent. Then O'Hara delievers the famous left hook, Zena Gollum takes a bottle of sleeping pills and has the last word on Yank as a human being: "Dear Yank: thanks for nothing...
Married. Lieut. General Lewis Hyde Brereton, 55, rough-&-tough Annapolis-graduated air corps oldtimer, whose varied World War II commands took him from the Philippines (at Pearl Harbor time) to India to Africa to Europe, where his Ninth (tactical) Air Force helped blast the way for invasion; and Londoner Zena Amanda Bell Groves, 34, whom he met in England when she was chauffeuring dignitaries as a Motor Corps member; he for the third time, she for the second; at Mitchel Field...