A breakneck skier who liked to race close to the edge, he was a college hell-raiser who once drove a motorcycle into the library reading room at Georgetown University.
(Catherine Rampell) 'Collision' Taken as a fast, creepy exercise in suspense, Lyle Kessler's play about a college roommate from hell might be reasonably diverting.
At some point during rehearsals "Collision," Lyle Kessler's new play about a college roommate from hell, underwent a metamorphosis, or at least a branding change.
(Isherwood) 'Collision' (closes on Sunday) Taken as a fast, creepy exercise in suspense, Lyle Kessler's play about a college roommate from hell might be reasonably diverting.
(Isherwood) 'Collision' Taken as a fast, creepy exercise in suspense, Lyle Kessler's play about a college roommate from hell might be reasonably diverting.
Add to that his 2004 beef with the women of Spelman college, who raised hell after he released a video showing him swiping a credit card through a woman's backside, and you have both the popularity and publicity to be a household name.
"The first winter at the naval college was absolute hell, we had no uniforms, we arrived in what we stood up in and had to send home for further clothing.
I was 19, totally strung out on heroin, going to art school, working in a men's clothing store, and renting a small studio apartment with my college roommate in Hell's Kitchen, a neighborhood notorious for drugs and prostitution.
To us, this sounds like the college thesis from hell, and standing amidst the installation, you start to get the feeling the artist began to go mad in the process.
My children could have been -- could still be -- gunned down in school, on a college campus, or hell, walking across a street at the wrong time, like a friend of ours who was recently murdered in Baltimore on his way home from choir practice, or like my daughter, whose car took a bullet when she drove down the wrong city street at the wrong time of night.
