“He was a brilliant producer who made a fortune and, of course, lost every cent in hare-brained investments, ... And he was in love with the male ingénue in the theatrical troupe; the only downside was the ingénue was, by this time, about 52, and he kept insisting on playing 18-year-olds. This guy insisted every season on doing two Shakespeare plays, and invariably somebody tried to murder him during the performance because, strangely enough, Shakespeare wasn't big in the mining camps.”
“He was a brilliant producer who made a fortune and, of course, lost every cent in hare-brained investments, ... And he was in love with the male ingnue in the theatrical troupe; the only downside was the ingnue was, by this time, about 52, and he kept insisting on playing 18-year-olds. This guy insisted every season on doing two Shakespeare plays, and invariably somebody tried to murder him during the performance because, strangely enough, Shakespeare wasn't big in the mining camps.”
“It seems to me that the the portrayal of a minority in a position of authority, but without the substance of authority in fact is an image of the black person ... in his or her relationship to society at present,”
“The post-Vietnam period was a period of enormous moral confusion. It felt very much like a starting-over point, where there was a re-examination of social assumptions about the idea of law enforcement and the social contract.”
