Word: arkin
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...also can become the shortest line to an Oscar-as Cliff Robertson proved at this year's Academy Awards show. Competitors like Alan Arkin and Alan Bates may have been content to rest on their performances; Robertson knew better. Starting in October 1968, ads on his behalf were placed in the trade papers. "Best actor of the year-the National Board of Review" they reminded readers. "Cliff Robertson is CHARLY," they trumpeted in full-page splashes. The campaign culminated in a giant double foldout inserted in Daily Variety. Its contents: 83 favorable reviews of Robertson from a spectrum...
Among the surprise of the evening were Cliff Robertson's win over Alan Arkin for best actor, Mel Brooks, (author of The Producers) Oscar best screen-Bang Bang' 'to grap the citation for best song...
...cameras in every room. . . . A return to common sense. . . . lobotomies for anyone who earns less than ten thousand a year Freedom!" But ultimately the family discovers that the only sanity left to them is sticking a rifle out their apartment window and joining in the blood bath. Director Alan Arkin has staged all this with the frenzy and craziness we associate with Feiffer's art work, and his cast is perfect--daffy and ludicrous, with enough of a foothold in reality to render the whole thing at once hilarious and frightening...
LITTLE MURDERS. This revival of Cartoonist Jules Feiffer's play about a family living in a psychotic New York milieu of impending violence fares very well indeed under the masterly hand of Director Alan Arkin...
Little Murders--Jules Feiffer's black comedy (which flopped a few season ago on Broadway) in a new and fine production directed by Alan Arkin. It's a disturbing and wildly funny work about snipers, obscene phone calls, air pollution, masturbation, hippie religion, and a photographer who takes pictures of shit--among other things. Andrew Duncan and Linda Lavin have just left the cast, but Vincent Gardenia and the stunning Elizabeth Wilson are among those who remain. At the CIRCLE-IN-THE-SQUARE, 159 Bleeker...