My Sweet Charlie, by David Westheimer. Broadway's racial conscience quickens whenever it pairs a white man and a Negro woman or a Negro man and a white woman to see which combination will lure more customers to the box office. Two seasons ago, the lucky combination was The Owl and the Pussycat, juxtaposing an erudite white bookstore clerk and a hoydenish Negro prostitute. My Sweet Charlie pairs a highly articulate Negro lawyer (Louis Gossett) from the North and a slatternly white mushhead of 17 (Bonnie Bedelia). One after the other, they break into a...
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