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...money and American boys. Wood gives each one his brief theatrical moment and tries to build an act out of a few comic situations (like Joe's constant run-ins with his assistant, Wesley) that can't last very long. He captures the movie jargon well ("be my file, Wes"; "we have to conceptualize a film here") but carries each joke just too far; the action, lacking any internal coherence, degenerates into a string of forced jokes...
Kustow has chosen to stage this at a long table at the front of the stage, keeping our interest with visual mayhem but accentuating the fragmentary nature of the dialogue. Stephen Rowe and Tony Shalhoub, as Joe and Wes, try mightily to keep things going, but with little success. Some awkward pace changes contribute to the difficulty, and the act sags until Frederick Neumann, as the John Huston-like director John Bean, takes things over. Neumann shines as the horny, hearty old American ("It's a simple name--I am a simple man.") whose vision of the revolution comprises mostly...
...Wes Carrion, filling in at Cooley's slot versus MIT, also triumphed in a substitute role...
When he came out of Florida State in 1969, basketball afficianados laughed at the idea that this relatively unheralded project of Red Auerbach could bang heads with the Kareem Abdul-Jabbars, Wilt Chamberlains, and Wes Unselds patrolling the keys and live to tell about it. Yet one of the predominant images of pro basketball in the early '70s became that of a grimacing, snarling, Cowens ripping down a rebound as sweat poured down his face and shook off his hair. The league soon respected Cowens, but as much more than that hated athletic stalwart, the all-hustle, no-talent scrapper...
...small town America, yet it can be found. Writer Lael Wertenbaker, 71, has discovered just that in Nelson, N.H. (pop. 550). She likes Nelson for many reasons, including the fact that "in winter people know who's pregnant, and the snow-plow gets there first." U.S. Representative Wes Watkins of Ada, Okla. (pop. 17,000), chairman of the Rural Caucus, is not being merely windy when he says, "People in small towns are not numbers...