Word: harrison
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...flatness. It is not so much that the play finds no destination as that it fails to dramatize the very lack of one. What The Fighting Cock needed, in the face of an all but preordained intellectual stalemate, was a greater emotional leverage, a more vibrant dramatic charge. Rex Harrison is a top actor and Peter Brook a top director. But whether it is the part's fault or the player's, the general is not an expressive enough figure. And whether it is the production's fault or the play's, The Fighting Cock needs...
...Well," said Harrison, "right now I'm working on a haiku about English sparrows. I've got a great first line but I don't know where to go from there. 'Gray sparrows sing in gray gutters...
...Harrison muttered an unhappy obscenity and proceeded to his room. Once there, he began grinding out haiku after haiku in an attempt to produce the Oriental poetry equivalent of three thousand words of fiction. "Window panes are crying raindrops/Bicycles skid on slippery streets/Who will sunbathe with me?" "Japanese beetles crawl on rose bushes...
...Harrison," yelled his roommate from the living room, "how about 'The quick brown for jumps over the lazy dog?' That way you could capture the totality of the alphabet while retaining that basic Oriental structure. Or how about 'Foggy day in London town,' capturing that Anglo-Oriental music hall essence...
...Harrison picked up his '62 beer...