Word: cuckooed
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...show led off with "On Saturday Morning," the theme from The Sterile Cuckoo...
Mommy pops a Dexamyl and to her firstborn, whom she is diapering, explains that she must dash to keep an appointment with her psychiatrist, who is trying to determine why she is cuckoo...
...says the baby. "No," mommy tells him, "goo-goo is how babies go. Mommies go cuckoo." This time the kid gets it right: "Mommy koo-koo." It is his first sentence, and mommy is charmed. "You smart thing," she says, "have a zwieback...
There are, of course, other things around, such as GODSPELL, ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO'S NEST, and COMING OUT. But with the Frvin Committee hearings coming out you're best advised to wait...
...which he hopes to beat the role into submission. His adolescent dewiness turns damp, his confusion becomes less consistently comic than congealed into mannerism. Of course, he is burdened with a role that is rather too severely sentimentalized. His Walter is blood kin to Pookie Adams of The Sterile Cuckoo (which represents the previous collaboration of Director Pakula and Scenarist Sargent), with none of Pookie's surface brashness and vigor. As played and as written, Walter never sheds the tentativeness and the fear that his relationship with Miss Fisher ought to have changed. He begins to act a good...