CORKY HUBBART
Peter Dinkledge is starring in the movie Cyrano Debergerac. An ambitious role for many reasons. I cannot wait to see it. It will be fifty years ago next spring when I met Carl, Corky, Hubbert, 1973. I met him when I joined a small company performing a musical comedy of the middle East situation wherever we could rent stage space. It was called 'MIRAGE' and was written and directed by Penny Allen, a local writer and professor at Portland State, now an expatriot living in Paris (not Texas). She went on to write more successful plays, an independent film called, 'Property', and a documentary of a soldier from the Iraq War suffering from too many deployments. It had been five years since the Six-day war, on that day when I walked into rehearsal space. OPEC was choking off supplies of crude oil to drive up the price, and people were buying gas based on the odd or even number on their license plate. The play was the right thing at the right time. We needed humor.