![]() By the late ’70s he was working exclusively with Kenny Loggins, Jimmy Buffett and Linda Ronstadt. Records chief Ian) became his agent, and he used the comic to open for many rock acts of the day, including Talking Heads, the Pointers, Toto and The Police. When I had a hard time coming up with material, I just drove slower.”īefore long, Dubac became good enough so that Miles Copeland (brother of Police drummer Stewart and I.R.S. So there I was, driving in from Atlanta in my dad’s big old brown Mercury, trying to write things that were clever. I really didn’t have a comedy act when I took the job. I opened for Betty Carter, the jazz singer, and then Lowell George. Walden decided Dubac would make a good opening for his rock ‘n’ roll roster, and soon Dubac was opening concerts for the Allmans, Wet Willie, Marshall Tucker and Charlie Daniels.ĭubac says that his first paying gig was at the Bijou Cafe in Philadelphia. This continued when he enrolled at the University of Georgia in Athens, where he graduated with a major in psychology and journalism and a minor in theater.īefore leaving the university, Dubac met Phil Walden, one-time head of Capricorn Records and manager of the Allman Brothers. He also started taking his magic act on the road, working at resorts in Hilton Head Island, S.C. “It was pretty easy because they were drunk. “I did close-up magic for people,” he notes. In high school, Dubac started working in bars. “At first I did it for free, but then all the kids ran home and told their friends, and they told their friends … Pretty soon, parents were calling me asking how much I charged.” It’s much more subtle.”ĭubac, who was born outside Cleveland but raised in Atlanta by a father who restored office and hotel furniture and a mother who was a full-time homemaker, started entertaining for money when he was 8, doing magic shows at birthday parties. “It has to be funny primarily and, secondarily, all the dramatic points and metaphors and ironies you want to express have to be done through humor. “If nobody’s laughing it’s not a show, it’s a lecture,” he says of his modus operandi. In the late 1980s, Dubac became a regular on the ABC soap “Loving,” playing a role that sometimes crossed over into “All My Children.” “I was the cop from Corinth who worked occasionally in Pine Valley,” he says, referring to the soaps’ fictional settings.ĭubac eventually quit daytime drama and from 1992 to 1995 he workshopped the play, taking what he calls “all these bouncing balls” and creating some kind of plot. “I was in my mid-30s and I figured I wasn’t Harrison Ford or Tom Cruise,” Dubac says, explaining the origin of “The Male Intellect,” “so I said to myself, “Why not write something you could do, something between acting gigs?”‘ In fact, he and his wife of six years, commercial actress Lauren Sinclair, were in Telluride looking for land to build another home. Men who are deterred by the title aren’t the ones who want to embrace it anyway.”ĭubac has done well for himself since he began developing “The Male Intellect” in the early 1990s. “Fear - that’s what these guys are holding on to. Everybody sees all the faults in that person, except the person dating them.” “The Male Intellect,” designed to figure out what women want, is not based on men that he knew, Dubac adds, “but on women who dated a certain type of man that I wasn’t. “It’s intended to get us all on a more level playing field.” The one-man play, starring Dubac as “Bobby,” a guy just dumped by his girlfriend, and five alter egos, “is not about male or female bashing,” Dubac insists. That’s about as opinionated as the genial, even-handed Dubac gets as he discusses his acclaimed 90-minute production, which will be presented at Easton’s State Theatre on Friday and Saturday. That’s why it’s called “The Male Intellect …’ I sure couldn’t title it “The Female Intellect.”‘ ![]() “We’re the tougher gender,” says the 46-year-old actor/playwright, one male to another, during an interview from Telluride, Colo. It took almost 40 minutes, but Robert Dubac, the brains behind “The Male Intellect: An Oxymoron?” finally tipped his hand: ![]()
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