boy-chik Yiddish word for a young man with more chutzpah than brains. It's all about male-centered comic fiction, in the manner of P.G. Wodehouse, Peter De Vries (godfather of boychik) and more recent masters of the genre, Erik Tarloff (The Man Who Wrote the Book) and Peter Lefcourt (The Woody). Here's a place for commentary on this evolving form. You can buy Gerald's books from Amazon.com, bn.com, or your favorite bookseller in paper or ebook.
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Opera Review: The Turk in Italy at LA Opera
Okay, boychiks. What would you do if you were married to her? And imagine that you're overweight and almost twice her age.
Your name is Don Geronio, and you are coping with the challenges of your May-September marriage when a dark male stranger floats into town on a flying carpet...more
Photo by Robert Millard courtesy LA Opera
Labels:
battle of the sexes,
comedy,
LA Opera,
marital discord,
review,
rossini
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