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...other journalists, had lost his job and been expelled from the Communist Party. His new career: working as a crane operator with a road gang. Ruml's wife Jirina Hrabkova had been removed as the moderator of a popular radio program, and was selling sausages at the Prague Zoo. Worst of all, their two sons Jan, 17, and Jakob, 15, were hounded out of high school and denied a university education...
...White House turned him away. Gracie Mansion told him they didn't give out bread and water." Hogan whispers, "Only Burt Reynolds' dad, in Jupiter ((Fla.)), gave me a meal." Then there was the time Hogan donned a gorilla costume and checked into an empty cage at the Baltimore Zoo, with the help of authorities. Sufficiently sauced, Hogan nearly suffocated under the suit, but no one would pay attention to him until he hurled bananas at the crowd. Finally, a kid screamed, "Mommy, a blue-eyed gorilla!" and the crowd recognized that it was looking at no ordinary gorilla...
...time together. Before school let out for the summer, Katie was sometimes picked up by her sister from an after-school day-care program and walked home. This summer Mona and Katie will take field trips around Seattle while the Davises work. Katie and Mona will travel to the zoo or the aquarium or the science center on city buses. Or because they share a passion for reading, they will walk to the community library and find more books. "Mona teaches me all this stuff," says Katie, who asks Mona to dress her up like Madonna, or mousse her hair...
...Zoo Story is the more accessible play. Its plot is less confusing (though only slighty less so--in both plays, important questions are left unanswered until the final moments). It also has only two characters. Peter (Eric Oleson), a bland, upper middle-class man much like Daddy, reads and smokes a pipe on a park bench. Jerry (Daniel O'Keefe), an alienated, upset man, confronts Peter and tries to communicate with him and draw forth any sign of life from Jerry's passionless existence...
...strength, not only because they provide the most laughs, but also because they make a point of the inability of isolated, urban man to touch or communicate with another human being. This point is still relevant, and it is the reason that The American Dream and The Zoo Story are still chilling--and still worth seeing...