Word: couches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Perhaps significantly, the grimly bizarre comedy is Williams' first play to be produced since he abandoned his well-advertised long-term lease on the psychiatrist's couch. Upbeat only in comparison to his other plays, Period nevertheless glows with several scenes of gentle, off-focus humor, as when the two men boozily dream of raising buffalo (a "dignified beast") to rent out to producers of TV westerns. And if the play was a surprise to Miami theatergoers (who may be the only ones to see it; Williams is still undecided about taking it to Broadway...
Gunn (Craig Stevens) has all the normal qualifications: 1) a bachelor apartment that would do for "Baby" Pignatari; 2) a girl friend (Lola Albright) who sings in "Mother's" cabaret and waits languidly on his couch so she can boil a couple of eggs whenever he gets e; 3) a rampant palship with every list, pool shark, trigger man and le in town. But Producer-Director Blake Edwards, 36, who also writes about the Gunn scripts, believes that Pete a little extra going for him. Says ards: "We tailored him in high style, man is intelligent, dresses well...
Deputy fire chief William Cremins said that the amount of the loss could not be immediately determined, but would run into the thousands of dollars. The fire evidently started from a cigarette butt smouldering in a couch in the Club's TV room...
...explain the answer, the writers spent two lively, free-associating hours last week on Susskind's couch (WNTA-TV, Newark), a kind of group therapy that left them feeling sorry for themselves together instead of for each alone. Their main reasons for the decline of live TV drama: ¶ The public got bored with the sort of slice-of-life vignettes that Chayevsky and the other "agony boys" used to turn out every month. Eventually, the boys got bored themselves. "I didn't get tired of it," said J. P. (Days of Wine and Roses) Miller. "I just...
...ghastly--so ghastly I cannot talk about it. The obscene rites that there transpired, as registered on my fear-crazed brain by my blear-hazed eyes have completed the utter rout of my resources, made me the shattered hulk you now behold, and driven me back to my couch...