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Article: Him. (Public Theater, New York, New York)
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- New York
- Article date:
- January 30, 1995
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ANYONE WALKING ABOUT NEW YORK'S NIGHTTIME STREETS must be a connoisseur of garbage; but such garbage-walking is as nothing compared with the Walken garbage recently concentrated on the Public Theater stage in a thing that even stole its title from E. E. Cummings's vastly superior play, Him. Written and starred in by Christopher Walken, a strange actor who can go from very good to awful, it was a writing debut, proving yet again that today's actors make expendable dramatists.
If this was meant as a sixtieth-birthday tribute to Elvis Presley, the "him" around whom this maudlin masturbation revolved, it is a good thing that the recipient was not alive, or even "no, no, ...