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...preposterously, McCoy's upscale life is still directed at the rather modest goal of meeting outrageous mortgage payments for a penthouse. Likewise his success on the job ultimately is governed by nothing more than the fabled characteristics of Willy Loman. (He gets his shoeshine, while he smiles--and continues to trade bonds, thanks to the technology that Wall Street firms have devised to polish shoes while brokers make frantic trades on the phone...
Wolfe shows in his accurate, yet broad brushed treatment of the city that people's lives have a logic dictated by their birth and their profession. Whether a Loman or a McCoy, you still have to get your foot into the door. Yet, for their origins alone, a Loman and a McCoy shall never meet...
Heard is nearly as good as the wimpy son who begins to realize that he is a loser in life because he cannot dream. His mannerisms are strikingly similar to those of Dustin Hoffman, coming off like a Houston version of Willy Loman from Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. His portrayal of Ludie is both convincing and subtle...
...other one of two new comedies mounted by the ART this month, biographies the wacked-out encounter of an incompetent actor with an inept author. American theater is fascinated with losers; with the exception of musical comedy, most original plays seem to have spring from the forehead of Willy Loman...
...heads for the beach, Congress for home, and psychiatry for the asylum of Truro on Cape Cod. What makes for a holiday? Not time off from work. That happens on weekends, and no one calls that a holiday. Nor merely leaving home. That happens on business trips. Ask Willy Loman. On holiday one escapes more than work or home. One leaves oneself behind. The idea of holiday is a change of person, the remaking of oneself in one's own image. The baseball camp for adults, for example, where the bulky stockbroker, facing an aged Whitey Ford, can imagine...