Word: actor
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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DIARY OF A MADMAN (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Nicolai Gogol's story of the mental disintegration of a government clerk, as performed by French Actor Roger Coggio...
...Bombay who now conducts the Los Angeles Philharmonic-and who last week touched off a furor by denying that he was the least bit interested in conducting the New York Philharmonic*Yet what the musical performance lacked in authentic accent was balanced by the thoroughly Gallic staging of French Actor-Director Jean-Louis Barrault...
...opened in 1924, had 674 performances on Broadway, and has suffered countless amateur versions. It was filmed three times (with Gregory Kelly in 1926, Spencer Tracy in 1934, Red Skelton in 1947). And it was written by the grand old man of the U.S. stage, George Kelly, 80, actor, director, and uncle of the Princess of Monaco...
...Actor-Writers Cook and Moore, who once were half of the wily foursome in Beyond the Fringe, have failed to grasp the basic difference between a four-minute skit and a 107-minute movie. What is worse, their script is padded with imbecile yock lines ("I love Lucifer," or in a conversation about God "But he is English isn't he?"). As a result, the film plays Faust and loose with a grand old theme...
...they spot moles the size of silver dollars on each other's wrists. Enter Winifred Goodman, a piquant blonde who lectures the customers on the evils of drink. She is met with a shower of catcalls and booze. But then appears Lemonade Joe, played by Karel Fiala, an actor who looks like a reincarnation of William S. Hart. He heroically shoots a fly in mid-air and scatters the crowd...