BOY'S LIFE

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Boys' Life and Other Plays. The New York Production of Boys' Life-which won rave reviews and a Pulitzer prize nomination-established Howard Korder as one of the most exciting new talents in American theater. An acerbically funny portrait of 1980s male behavior, it tracks three young urbanites on the make through their nights and days. BOYS LIFE HOWARD KORDER PDF. September 17, 2019. THE STORY: Told in a series of fast-paced, sharply etched scenes, the play traces the misadventures of three former college buddies now seeking to make their. How else to explain the fact that, back in, audiences could be needled by ” Boys’ Life,” Howard Korder’s now. In celebration of its 100th anniversary of Boy Scouts of America and its publication Boys' Life, this book is a collection of the best Boys' Life pages of news, nature, sports, history, fiction, science, comics, and Scouting information. All pages in this collection are facsimile reproductions of the magazine's original pages.

Men are all palaver and what they can get. --Lily the caretaker's daughter in James Joyce's 'The Dead'

Boy's Life is the slick, vaguely reactionary magazine published by the Boy Scouts of America that has been telling boys for generations now how to fold the flag, how to find your way through the woods with a compass, and how to catch a fish almost as big as Dad's.

What Boy's Life never taught was how to get Dad out of the office on a Saturday to go fishing in the first place. Nor did Boy's Life (or the Boy Scouts, for that matter) do a particularly good job of informing us of the importance of male friendships. Howard Korder's flawless comedy Boy's Life is about the painful time in men's lives when they discover that giving up childish things means drifting away from their male friends. The play begins with three friends in their late 20s--Don, Jack, and Phil--hanging out together, wasting the evening away, just as they've wasted thousands of evenings before this. Jack tortures Don by asking him to 'Name three things that happened in the 1970s,' while Phil, oblivious, listens to Emerson, Lake, and Palmer on his Walkman ('I haven't heard this since college, you know?').

These boy-men couldn't be less ambitious, although their refusal to plan for the future hardly frees them from quiet desperation. Don regrets not becoming an astronaut, although he won't do anything to achieve this dubious career goal. Phil's job, whatever it is, bores him so much he can hardly talk about how great it is without sounding insincere: 'Things are going really really great for me right now. Just fine. I have my own partition now, over at the office, they put up one of those, ah . . . so that's really good.' And Jack, whose wife makes piles of money in investment banking, has no job at all--and no prospects. He's a house husband, though it's a role he denies, even when he's at the park with his son Jason.

In nine very funny scenes, the play charts the trio's inevitable drift apart, a drift that accelerates after Don falls for Lisa, a waitress who studies sculpting at the School of the Art Institute. Lisa, naturally, has little patience for Don's boyish ways--'I'm not your mother'--and even less for his 'creepy friends.' Jack, in turn, has zero tolerance for Lisa. Much of the second half of the play concerns this subtle, below-the-surface tug-of-war between Jack and Lisa for control of Don's soul.

Korder has an excellent ear for dialogue, although it might be more accurate to say that he has an excellent ear for Mamet-esque dialogue. Korder shares both Mamet's infatuation with the poetry of profanity--'Goddamn shit-eating asshole scumbags'--and his love of the hard-boiled poetry of male bonding--'We're living in thrilling days, Don.' And like Mamet, Korder has learned the difficult art of snappy, clever dialogue:

Jack: Don, a toast, a very special toast, to the ladies. . . . Where would we be without them?

Don: We'd be nowhere.

Jack: We wouldn't even be here.

Don: We wouldn't even exist.

Jack: We would not.

Don: It's a sobering thought.

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Jack: It's food for thought.

Don: It's a thought to think (pause).

Jack: Well, no sense in blaming them for it now.

Even the plot is reminiscent of Mamet's Sexual Perversity in Chicago--close friends find love affair interferes with friendship. And like Mamet, Korder doesn't always treat 'the ladies' very well. In fact, Korder's women seem to come in only three varieties: insensitive, emotionally disturbed, and sarcastic and bitchy.

Of course, Korder's similarity to Mamet may be more than coincidental. Boy's Life was first performed in February 1988 by a theater company made up of former Mamet students (the Atlantic Theater Company) directed by one of Mamet's poker--and theater--buddies (W.H. Macy) and performed at Lincoln Center, where a Mamet pal (Gregory Mosher) is artistic director. Still, Korder could do worse than to imitate a master like Mamet.

Every scene in the play works, every actor in the cast seems well-suited to the part he or she plays. Even, believe it or not, the scene changes are fun. Director Neil Wilson has done a good job steering the production away from baby-boomer stereotypes. Not an easy thing to do in a play as full of trendy, contemporary references as this one--everything from pasta class and anorexia nervosa to Elvis Costello and Eddie Haskell.

And it helps when your cast includes as many terrific actors as this. The charming and charismatic Nelson Russo, in particular, is a real find as Jack. By turns childish, manipulative, adulterous, and wickedly funny, Russo carries it off without a hitch. Tim Bakker look-alike David Williams, too, holds his own as the less complex Don.

Among the women, Jeanne M. Dwan, as Lisa, and Mona Mansour, as Karen, really stand out. Dwan in particular shows a real flair for comedy, able to get laughs with the most innocent-looking lines. Debra Schommer, too, should be given a big hand for turning one of those awful 80s-style blond bimbos--the kind of woman who asks, 'What's 10K?'--into a real person.

John Rhys Coiro (born March 12, 1979) is an American film, television and stage actor who got his start on Broadway but is best known for his on-screen roles such as Billy Walsh on Entourage.

Early life[edit]

Born in Santo Stefano in AspromonteCalabria, Italy, to David Coiro and Ann Baynes Coiro,^[2] Coiro grew up in Princeton, New Jersey and attended Princeton High School.^[3] As a teenager, Coiro began working for a local artist^[4] who introduced him to the artistic director of The Passage Theater, June Ballinger.^[5] Ballinger got him involved with the State Street theater project in Trenton NJ, modeled after Primary stages' 52nd street project. From there, Coiro spent summers building sets and operating lights at the New Jersey Shakespeare festival. Inspired by numerous productions, including Julie Taymor's 'Titus Andronicus' at TFANA, Coiro decided to study theater at Carnegie Mellon University, where he eventually graduated with a BFA.^[6] He also spent time studying at The Moscow Art Theater in Russia.^[7]

Career[edit]

At age 19, Coiro got his first professional gig as an understudy to three roles in the American premiere of Conor McPherson's off-Broadway play This Lime Tree Bower directed by Harris Yulin at Primary Stages.^[8] Within a month of graduating from CMU, Coiro landed the role of Eddie the Bellhop in the Lincoln Center revival of George S. Kauffman's Dinner at Eight, directed by Gerald Guitierrez.^[9]

Coiro then moved to Los Angeles and began working in construction, including a stint building a house with Nick Offerman. In fact, Coiro received the call that he'd landed his first on-screen acting gig, as Billy Walsh on Entourage, while digging a hole for a deck in Echo Park.^[10] The role of Walsh was originally meant to be a guest star but soon evolved into an iconic character that has defined Coiro's career.

Coiro shared a studio space in Historic Filipino town with then-unknown painter Jonas Wood. During this period, Coiro formed an underground, traditional Irish music band with artists Matt Johnson and Greg Santos, that played around East LA. In 2007, following the birth of his first child, Coiro accepted the role of Sean Hillinger on the 7th season of 24. Coiro was cast in The Last House On The Left but had to pull out when the writer's strike abruptly ended and production resumed on 24. The role ended up being given to Aaron Paul. In 2009 Coiro returned to the stage, starring in a production of Howard Korder's 'Boy's Life' at Second Stage in New York opposite Jason Biggs.^[11] In 2010 Coiro starred in Slamdance^[12] Winner Snow and Ashes and in 2011 appeared alongside Alexander Skarsard in Screen Gems' remake of Straw Dogs. In 2014, Coiro was antagonist to Stevie Van Zandt's character on the final season of Netflix's first original series, the Norwegian mega-hit Lillyhammer^[13] and he played one of the original Texas Rangers in The History Channel's Mini-series Texas Rising, alongside Ray Liotta, Bill Paxton and Brendan Fraser.^[14] During this show he honed his riding and roping skills. In 2015 Coiro played Armenian gangster Ari Adamian on the final season of USA's Graceland.^[15] In 2017 and 2018 Coiro appeared as a series regular in Unsolved and in arcs on Ray Donovan, The Walking Dead, and S.W.A.T.

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Personal life[edit]

Coiro is fluent in Italian and Spanish.

In 2016, Coiro traveled to Standing Rock, North Dakota to take part in the peaceful protest against the North Dakota Access Pipeline.^[16]

Coiro is married to director Kat Coiro.^[17] They live in Los Angeles with their three children.

Filmography[edit]

Film[edit]

Television[edit]

References[edit]

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16. ^'Entourage and Graceland Star Rhys Coiro Makes Impromptu Visit to Standing Rock - Indian Country Media Network'. Indian Country Media Network. 2016-12-03. Retrieved 2017-01-12.
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18. ^N'Duka, Amanda (March 5, 2021). 'Mel Gibson, Dermot Mulroney, Katherine McNamara, Rhys Coiro & Annie Ilonzeh Join 'Agent Game' Spy Thriller'. Deadline Hollywood. Archived from the original on April 25, 2021. Retrieved March 5, 2021.
19. ^West, Kelly (June 6, 2013). 'Dexter Photos Offer New Clues For Season 8'. Cinema Blend. Retrieved June 21, 2013.