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Final post in connection with the three August shows is up at The Brick's blog, B(rick)log.
The post itself is HERE.
Primarily, as mentioned in the previous post here, about influences, and containing several videos from Frank Zappa, Ernie Kovacs, and Negativland, and a mention of Harvey Kurtzman.
Don't play ball.
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Re: Harry on Friday
Date: 2008-08-24 12:53 pm (UTC)From:considered Foreman's "normal" play -- it captures the tyranny on the
other side of its period's archetypal sitcom dad in a way that only
The Honeymooners ever came close to. (That's *mostly* a joke; not
since your own Hamlet have I seen anyone dare to keep so compellingly
unlikable a character onstage from start to finish. Okay, at the core
of all such control is an insecurity, and of course this is a great
psychological portrait of an America that can't be satisfied and a
clinically anxious personality who's incapable of contentment or of
quitting while he's ahead; in that regard it's sympathetic even to
Harry, though it makes this suitably hard to remember for the two
hours we're allowed to laugh at him and forced to be his wife and
kids.) Another string of great solos from you -- your eyebrows and
lower lip could each have gotten separate credits. Liked the numb
congeniality of the doctor, the unstiflable zeal of Hilda and the
clownish torment of Hildasbrother -- after the sublime self-confidence
of that actor's Ambersons turn it was a hoot to see him seemingly
portraying Tommy Smothers staggering in from a summer-stock Godot.
Okay. Try… to get… some rest.