Please enter the message.Would you also like to submit a review for this item? Some features of WorldCat will not be available. Please enter the subject.Depressed New Yorker Alfred Chamberlain is engaged to perky, can-do Patsy Newquist. Murders increased to such an extent that no area of the city felt safe. City street noises outside the Newquists’ windows are interrupted, with alarming frequency, by single and multiple gunshots, some of which randomly whiz into the family’s living room unannounced. It’s not bad enough that the hulking Alfred rarely speaks, staring forward with dead eyes as if in a permanent catatonic state. It’s clear that Feiffer’s politically incorrect working class family was an inspiration for Archie Bunker and crew just a few years later.But Feiffer’s world, unlike Archie’s, involves constant fear and menace.
Tension, pressure, pain as they used to say in an old aspirin commercial.Making matters worse for Carol are his kids. Read 10 reviews from the world's largest community for readers.
She can’t shut up for a minute and it only takes a slightly ill advised observation to reduce her to a puddle of self-pitying crocodile tears.Her grouchy husband (Craig Miller) isn’t much better. His cartoons quickly became a popular feature of the Voice, and could increasingly be discovered in other publications as well.But during his long career, Feiffer refused to rest on his laurels, expanding into prose, live theater, and even into the chancy world of Hollywood script writing. Please enter your name.The E-mail message field is required. Get this from a library! Little Murders book. Which only further irritates his straight-laced dad.Daughter Patsy (Robin Covington) is the opposite kind of problem.
If you succeed, you’ll be the new king – but be careful, your adviser is after your crown! He started out as an apprentice cartoonist in the 1950s but quickly scored success in the then brand-new Village Voice, a distinctly leftish tabloid that thrived on surprisingly good investigative journalism leavened with snarky exposes and reviews of politicians, entertainers, and Manhattan elites.Feiffer’s lazy, languid line drawings, together with hand penned dialogue that ranged from the cutting to the blasé, seemed to embody the artistic and political spirit of the age—or at least of New York’s Greenwich Village. Murder is a fun assasination game created by Studio Seufz. Alan Arkin's "Little Murders" is a very New York kind of movie, paranoid, masochistic and nervous. Please re-enter recipient e-mail address(es).The name field is required. The whole play is like Murphy’s Law writ large.Brittle, harried, occasionally paranoid, and always bordering on the hysterical, Emily Morrison’s Marjorie is the quintessence of the hovering, smothering, omnipresent New York mom. Cheeky, self-assured to the point of obnoxiousness, and unbearably bossy, her forced sunniness—the mirror image of her mom’s tragic vision of life—always catches Carol just the wrong way.Mix in Patsy’s latest boyfriend-fiancé Alfred Chamberlain (James Finley) and Carol’s brains start boiling toward nuclear meltdown. But back in the 1960s and 1970s, he was the very last word in satirical chic, at least among the East Coast literati. The middle class was slowly fleeing the city.Increasingly dysfunctional, it was fast declining into a hotbed of crime and decay, characterized on the surface by endless public employee union strikes, particularly by the sanitation workers whose wildcat walkouts resulted in periodic Matterhorns of festering, rat-infested trash that clogged the city’s streets.Worse was the increasing ineffectiveness of law enforcement. He hates his given name of “Carol” (which actually, with a “c” or a “k” is the Polish version of Carl).
Enjoy millions of the latest Android apps, games, music, movies, TV, books, magazines & more. But as an added bonus, Finley can really act.With hollowed, blackened eyes and a blank stare, Alfred is at the outset the very model of the kind of New Yorker who’s been numbed by the city’s ubiquitous violence. Creep up behind the king and take him out quickly and quietly. It left me with a cold knot in my stomach, a vague fear that something was gaining on me. Nonetheless, Crump makes the most of them with slapstick shtick made slightly creepy by physically hinting at some past incestuous fun with his sister.But perhaps the most interesting character in this production is Patsy’s reluctant fiancé, Alfred Chamberlain. Its deployment by the unwitting inevitably sets off a blistering diatribe. Unlike Archie, Miller’s Carol is already a defeated man, always looking sullenly over his shoulder, anxiously awaiting the next rotten thing that’s going to happen to an honest New York working man as the thieves, con men, takers and schemers seemingly collude to destroy the city and with it, what little happiness Carol has left.Echoing Marjorie’s gene pool rather than her father’s, Robin Cunningham, as Patsy, is also hyperactive. It's a movie about people driven to insanity and desperate acts of violence by …
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