Robert Patrick
A demented, sophisticated dwarf, the last man on Earth, is trapped atop the Empire State Building with only an endlessly repeated radio message for company. In his paranoia, the trivialities of our time are hilariously, pitiably reflected.
Robert Patrick (1927-2023), son of migrant workers in the Southwest, wandered at 24 into the Caffe Cino in Greenwich Village during his first half-hour in Manhattan on September 14, 1961. He was for three years an unpaid “temple slave” in that first off-off-Broadway theater w ...