Word: docs
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Doc Watson is probably the greatest living flat-picking guitar player. His performances are invariably distinguished not just be occasional bursts of dazzling speed or by audience-winning tricks, but by an unerring sense of timing and mood which might enable him to make a country rendition of the Boston Yellow Pages sound interesting. His smooth, if not polished singing style offers relief from country singers who sound something like the cows they are singing about, and his interpretations of contemporary folk music are as successful and perhaps even more pleasing than his classic renditions of traditional country romances, evangelical...
...Jane Eichkern are understandably unable to make their sudden ecstasy of inexplicable love convincing. About the only thing that does work is Peter Agoos's set, which has a fine flavor of New York to it, although even given the city's infinite variety it seems unlikely that Doc's drugstore would charge 30 cents for a Coca-Cola and 29 for a milkshake...
...very well by small parts; John Campbell Butman and Maureen Kerrigan as Riff and Anita are fine in large ones. Butman also manages to keep his New York accent comparatively intact and reasonably authentic throughout -- which is rare, although, nobody else quite equals Richard Pimes, who evidently conceives of Doc as a Polish Jew, or possibly anyone else, talk...
...computer programmer in Houston who adds dash to his dreary life by becoming a cat burglar, sort of a country cousin to Cary Grant in To Catch a Thief. Fortunately, O'Neal does not try to impersonate Grant, as he did in What's Up, Doc?, but instead scuffs through the part with his own vagrant charm. He is given a girl friend, played by Jacqueline Bisset, one of the few young actresses who really can get by on looks alone; and a nemesis, Warren Gates, an actor who can always be trusted to shape a full characterization...
...Doc and Merle Watson and Chris Smither, Symphony Hall...