Slapstick; or, Lonesome No More

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Slapstick; or, Lonesome No More

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Slapstick; or, Lonesome No More! (1976; film 1982) focuses on a pair of grotesque siblings who devise a program to end loneliness, and Jailbird (1979) is a postmodern pastiche rooted in 20th-century American social history.
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