LONG IN THE TOOTH

The Living Theatre. Riding back to Chicago with Brad, he said he felt there was a lot of hostility in IOWA for The Living Theatre. "You mean, like me?" "Well, I didn't want to accuse you." Hamlet's hostility towards Claudius was solely because he looked so much like his father's ghost. "In other words, Brad, you're so new-kid-on-the-block and Julian Beck is dead." Of course they also put Young Elvis on the postage stamp, which is a mistake. Not because Old Elvis is better, but because Elvis is still alive. And besides, this is IOWA. Past and present rhyme. Oscar Wilde once said something to the effect that one could divide all the characters of Western literature into two categories: those that are an imitation of Christ and those that are not. Nah. There are many centers, not just one.