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...takes place on a suspension bridge, and the plot is a shoestring. A beatnik's beatnik, Harry Berlin (Alan Arkin), is poised for a suicidal leap. Up comes natty Milt Manville (Eli Wallach), who recognizes him as a onetime classmate at Poly-Arts U. They swap case histories. Harry tells a tale of existential woe that started when a fox terrier mistook his pant leg for a hydrant: "I was nauseous, sick to my soul, I became aware . . . aware of the whole rotten senseless stinking deal." Mimed in outrageously funny fashion by Alan Arkin, Harry is so sick that...
...Last Analysis, is about a top comedian (Sam Levene) who is slipping past prime time. Ruth Gordon has written A Very Rich Woman for herself to star in and Husband Garson Kanin to direct. Luv is about what it sounds, and stars Anne Jackson, Eli Wallach and Alan Arkin. A typist and a taxi driver, played by Betty Garrett and Pat Hingle, have a hectic courtship in Don Appell's A Girl Could Get Lucky. The Owl and the Pussycat marks a milestone of sorts by casting Negro Actress Diana Sands in a part that has nothing...
...there is a bright spot in the show, it's Alan Arkin's David. There's not much to the part, but Arkin never stops trying: he apes, he mimics, he double takes, and he double talks. Yet Arkin's humor is strictly in the Jerry Lewis vein. And how many adults like Lewis...
EAST SIDE, WEST SIDE (CBS, 10-11 p.m.). Alan Arkin in a drama called "The Beatnik and the Politicians...
Enter Laughing, by Joseph Stein, takes a brash, gauche, inflammably youthful would-be actor from a hat-machine factory to some bogus acting-school footlights. The play is sketchy but captivating and Alan Arkin is a clown's clown...