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...plays and readings by minor and major poets to heady discussions and adequate but not repetitive news. Most celebrated WFMT character is Studs Terkel, who runs a daily 10-11 a.m. program of literate talk with both itinerant and local celebrities, such as Tennessee Williams and Chicago Novelist Nelson Algren. "Its listeners," Minow goes on, "are loyal to the point of being fanatics." In recent months, licenses have been awarded to two new FM stations in the Chicago area-one in De Kalb, and the other in Skokie. Both were on frequencies so close to WFMT that they blocked...
...Capucine, the heroine has looked dead all along. By contrast, the other members of the cast (notably Anne Baxter and Jane Fonda) positively seethe with vitality. The script, which owes almost nothing but its title and its setting to the novel by Nelson (The Man with the Golden Arm) Algren, was written by five writers in succession, and it reads like a round-robin, fold-over-and-add-a-line letter: "You certainly are an unusual girl to find in this sort of place . . . Darling, I love enough for two . . . My father used to say that love comes on silent...
...clock shadow, his habit of lying disheveled on floor or sofa, an attitude he liked to assume for photographers. "He belched in public," notes Rovere rather primly and adds: "[He had] the perverse appeal of the bum, the mucker, the Dead End kid, the James Jones-Nelson Algren-Jack Kerouac hero...
Hartman's intelligence is manifest in the current production, but his consistency sometimes falters. Each of the several portrayals is excellent in its own right, but they do not always mesh as they might. Becklan Algren plays Gogo more or less naturalistically, with accent and gestures that would be equally appropriate to Waiting for Lefty. A recognizable human characterization lies behind his performance. Tony LoBianco's Vladimir seems, on the other hand, to have an abstraction behind it. The two men are professionals, and pursue their readings with great skill, but they do not always coordinate properly...
...presumably to marry Holloway's daughter and settle down to a career as an artist. As the book jacket puts it solemnly: "Nobility and love may flower wherever the seeds are sown." What the book has to offer is the authenticity of setting and speech that recalls Nelson Algren's excursion into the same territory. Unfortunately, Author Motley has not written another Man With the Golden Arm-but only a sort of Man With the Wire-Recorder...