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...after opening night. "I've been at it since 1960 and, let's see, I've been in 12 flops, count 'em folks, 12." Masiell, who starred for ten years in Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris, sang two songs from that play ("Madeleine" and "Amsterdam") with an uncanny empathy...
...Dutch writer Janwillem van de Wetering writes about Amsterdam policemen and the statutes and terrors that govern their lives, but this casual author makes Sjöwal-Wahlöö look like Ellery Queen. Van de Wetering's novels meander along, with asides on the foibles of human nature and gracefully written filaments of Eastern philosophy. The plot is announced early in the narrative and dispatched at the end as quickly as a victim. The author, 48, was once a Buddhist monk in Japan (he wrote about that arduous life in An Empty Mirror). He returned to The Netherlands...
Because Anne Frank's story has permeated our historical consciousness, some of the emotional impact of the play, based on the diary Anne kept during the two years that she, her family and an assortment of acquaintances spent hiding from the Nazis in an Amsterdam attic, has faded in the 23 years since it was first produced. We come to it already knowing what we feel about Anne and her situation. As a result interest tends to shift toward how an American acting family, Eli Wallach, his wife Anne Jackson and their daughters, Roberta and Katherine, fare as impersonators...
...play. It's a play of the spirit," says Actor Eli Wallach of The Diary of Anne Frank. In an off-Broadway production opening Dec. 28, Wallach plays the father of the Jewish family that hides from the Nazis in an Amsterdam warehouse for 25 months during World War II. The mother is Anne Jackson, Wallach's real-life wife, and the Frank daughters are played by Wallachs as well. "You're comfortable with your own family, so it's easier," says Katherine, 20, who hopes for a career as a cafe chanteuse and plays Margot...
...Light are getting along fine until he gets involved in the misfortunes of a 6-ft. 7-in. black basketball star, Roscoe Hadley, known as "Adlay" to his Gallic worshipers. Cage winds up representing Adlay without fee against sundry real and imagined threats on his life from Paris to Amsterdam and some mob intervention from California. Nonmonetary compensation comes from a sexy Anglo-Parisienne who outsmarts just about everyone; la belle Valérie may even cure Cage of his addiction to Air France stewardesses...