Oh Dad, Poor Dad ...

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WE CAN GUESS, watching Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin So Sad, that playwright Arthur Kopit had some issues with women. His two female leads are lunatics: First, a mother so fastidious and overbearing that she locks her son in a hotel room for his entire life. Second, a child-molesting slut who seems hopelessly attracted to Asperger's syndrome. Madonna and whore, mother and lover, a virginal womb and a deflowered one: This is Kopit 's bipolar world, where estrogen is gunpowder and testosterone engenders innocence.

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Oh Dad, Poor Dad ...

Oh Dad, Poor Dad ...

WE CAN GUESS, watching Oh Dad, Poor Dad, Mamma's Hung You in the Closet and I'm Feelin So Sad, that playwri...

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