Word: superhero
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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ALBEE, though, betrays himself and the real force behind his vision by reaching too quickly for what has become the Superhero of the Sixties: he, of course, is Richard and Jenny's fifteen-year-old son. As played by Jack Simons, Roger is a kind of caustic Graduate. He is forced into combatting rampant evils like anti-Semitism with bewildered protests such as "Quite a lot of us are circumcised." (Try that at your parents' next bash.) From the audience's enthusiastic reception -- even though many looked suspiciously like their stage counter-parts -- it seems America finally does believe that...
...Notes is the somewhat autobiographical account of Exley's youthful attempts to participate in the American myth. He wants to be the superhero, cheered on by adoring crowds -if not on the football field, where his father had excelled, then as a famous writer. He sees himself conquering the citadel of New York, luxuriating in money and success. The woman of his dreams has breathtaking legs, a snub nose, a Vassar girl's sophistication and the idealistic innocence of Doris Day about to be seduced by none other than Freddy Exley of Watertown...
...rolls of celebrated sons and daughters heading for films and fame. That mat-chested fellow with the open shirt happens to be Assaf Dayan, 21, son of Israel's superhero, Moshe; the lass wrapped around his waist is Anjelica Huston, 16, Director John's girl. Though they look like a pair of Carnaby Street mannequins, they are starring as lovers in Huston's latest film, A Walk with Love and Death. Assaf has been before the cameras several times in Israel, and it is not likely that Huston will harbor any qualms about working with his daughter...
...Tschudin putting on plays in the NYU Drama Department. The previous friendship of Tschudin and Ivers brought the duos together, and the four auditioned for a drummer, luckily finding Jay Rubero. Ivers '68, a classics major who looks like a cross between Dennis the Menace and a Marvel superhero, proudly tells us that the new rock-and-roll group is based in Boston so he can finish college...
...change of pace from radio's hot-and-heavy barrage of records, news, and commercials, Chickenman was hatched 16 months ago on Chicago's WCFL. He is an ineffectual superhero, like television's Captain Nice and Mr. Terrific. Unlike them, Chickenman is genuinely witty. His real name is Benton Harbor, and his game is selling women's shoes in the Midland City department store, so he is available to fight "crime and/or evil" weekends only. "I don't want to be bugged at the store," he keeps having to remind the police commissioner...