![]() ![]() From the footage below, we can see that Kaufman was far more than a mere subversive funny-man he was a fine actor too, almost to the point of a thespian of yore. It wasn’t only ‘Indignation’ Jones that Kaufman played from Masters’ collection then, showing the excellent range that Kaufman undoubtedly possessed. ![]() Zehme continued: “He played a dead laughing guy and some dead old guys and a mystical dead guy and one dead extremely angry guy who spouted scorn through pursed and smacking lips that flapped and pouted under his thick-droop moustache (this was a very good look for a mean bastard, he thought).” Edgar Lee Masters and The Spoon River Anthology Edgar Lee Masters was a modernist poet from the 20th century who wrote a famous group of over 200 poems called The Spoon River Anthology. “A failed Broadway show based on a collection of woebegone poems by Edgar Lee Masters, which Erickson adapted for a class television project.” “He inhabited several deceased lamenters who populated the ghostly town of Spoon River, Illinois, in Spoon River Anthology,” Zehme wrote. ![]() Zehme went on to explain how he took to Masters’ characters with deft skill. It was the Spoon River Anthology that looked to stick out in Erickson’s classes for Kaufman, though. ![]()
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