Word: balsam
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Among the Paths to Eden, by contrast, makes much of its plainness. A widower, Ivor Belli (Martin Balsam), brings flowers to his wife's grave. Tending her father's nearby tombstone, Mary O'Meaghan (Maureen Stapleton) strikes up a conversation. Within moments, it is obvious that the meeting was no accident-the female mourner has been haunting the cemetery because it is a convenient place to meet unattached men. When Belli confesses that he has a mistress, Mary O'Meaghan bids him polite farewell-and pursues another widower taking another path to his wife...
Stapleton and Balsam are two of the most seasoned professionals in show business; both listen and react with a skill that lends the slender script warmth and pathos. They receive scant help from the Perrys. In the original story, Belli, despite his name, is Jewish. Here he is simply "Russian." In the story, Miss O'Meaghan sits atop a gravestone and imitates Helen Morgan singing Don't Ever Leave Me-and is interrupted by a file of shocked Negro mourners. Here she is given a bland song (lyrics supplied by Eleanor Perry because rights to the original were...
...western to end all westerns, the film has George Armstrong Custer, Wild Bill Hickok and Buffalo Bill among its characters. But they all seem tame compared with the types portrayed by Dustin Hoffman, Martin Balsam and Faye Dunaway. In Little Big Man, from Thomas Berger's picaresque novel, Dustin plays the hero, Jack Crabb, who survives every imaginable peril until the age of 121, which ought to put the makeup men on their mettle. The putty looms large in Balsam's role as well; he plays a sly con artist whose enraged victims relieve him at various times...
...Basilic and Mickey Walker about the effect that "the slam-bang club fighter tactics of Rocky" would have on "the china chin of the Georgia Deacon." The scene set, Le-Bow then took over to describe the action, pausing now and then to note that Martha Raye and Martin Balsam were in the "audience" or, in the middle of a clinch, to exclaim: "The Rock looks down this way and winks, of all things! If this is all in fun, he had better tell Flowers about it!" Then, as the crowd noise mounted to a frenzy in the eleventh round...
...WEDNESDAY NIGHT MOVIE (ABC, 8:30-11 p.m.). Harlow (1965), starring Carroll Baker, with Martin Balsam, Red Buttons, Angela Lansbury and Peter Lawford...