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<text id=91TT1928>
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Aug. 26, 1991: View Points:Theater
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TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1991
Aug. 26, 1991 Science Under Siege
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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VIEW POINTS, Page 63
THEATER
Black, White and Blue-Collar
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<p>By William A. Henry III
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<p> Cartoonists from Jules Feiffer to Garry Trudeau have
doubled as playwrights, for understandable reasons: both crafts
use dialogue and visual narrative, and in both the best humor
is rooted in personality. Lynda Barry, whose weekly comic strip
Ernie Pook's Comeek appears in 55 newspapers, shows that her
truest metier may be the stage in THE GOOD TIMES ARE KILLING ME,
a sometimes campy yet mostly poignant off-Broadway memoir of
blue-collar life in the '60s. The plot crams in far too much--infidelity and divorce, the random death of a child, teen sex,
Volare, bygone rock dances, a misbegotten camping trip--and
the two dozen-plus characters are mostly stereotypes and
sketches. But the core story is believably specific and
disconcertingly universal: the emergence of a friendship
between two preteen girls, one black and one white, amid all the
social influences that tend to divide them. Angela Goethals, 14,
is affectingly sincere as the white narrator. As her friend,
Chandra Wilson, who turns 22 this week, has wit and fire and the
promise of major stardom. W.A.H. III
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