Word: arkin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...blob of irritable radioactive ooze, for a moment later it knocks at the door and announces, with a hammer-and-sickly grin: "We're Norwheeguns." Actually the nervous Norsemen are petrified Soviet sailors whose sub has run aground on a sand bar. Their spokesman is Alan Arkin, a cabaret satirist (Second City) and Broadway clown (Luv), making a major movie debut that probably deserves an Oscar, a Lenin Peace Prize, and any other encouragements a wicked old world can offer...
...rest of the cast writhes under the direction of Alan Arkin, known until now as an actor. Just as Neil Simon provides a model for good comedy writing, Mike Nichols has come to be considered the comedy director to emulate; but Arkin, himself a veteran of the Nichols-directed Luv, fails to match up to the master...
...Behind Arkin's less than first-rate direction, however, is a play that isn't really worth staging. The author of Happily Never After, Judith Ann Ross, is also the wife of George W. George, the play's producer. And if such maxims can be evolved on the basis of only one example, vicious circles involving producers and producers' wives should not be entered into carelessly...
...frolics through the mazes and labyrinths of three pseudo-Freudian psyches -all suffering from nothing more than acute self-attention. Anne Jackson, Alan Arkin and Eli Wallach are brilliant...
...frolics through the mazes and labyrinths of three pseudo-Freudian psyches -all suffering from nothing more than acute self-attention. Anne Jackson, Alan Arkin, and Eli Wallach are brilliant...