Word: bernardis
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...reflect the intellectual nuances of the Kazantzakis novel, Zorba the Greek, the musical is infinitely inferior, point for point, to the 1964 Michael Cacoyannis film, with its powerful evocation of fierce joys and harsh sorrows against the spare Greek landscape. Anthony Quinn was possessed by the title role; Herschel Bernardi merely inhabits the part like a rented room. Quinn had the sexual assurance of a goat; Bernardi talks up lust as if he were a barker for a snake-oil remedy. Zorba has to be-as Quinn was and Bernardi is not-a grizzled Dionysian pagan, a piece...
Luckily Prince has found the right actor to voice the spectrum of human emotions so crucial to Zorba. His name is Herschel Bernardi and I can't get him out of my mind. For Zorba, every minute of life must be lived as if death were around the corner, with no time to be wasted. Raising his eyes to the Crete sky, spreading open his arms, and kicking out his feet as if he could surely ascend to heaven if he worked enough at it, Bernardi makes not only a stunning Zorba but a majestic spectacle of human will...
ZORBA. Music and lyrics by John Kander and Fred Ebb (Cabaret). Directed by Harold Prince and starring Herschel Bernardi. The Greek, as in the movie...
...HATFUL OF RAIN (ABC, 9-11 p.m.). Sandy Dennis, Peter Falk, Michael Parks and Herschel Bernardi star in the TV version of Michael Gazzo's Broadway play about a drug addict's attempts to kick the habit...
Just up the hill from Cost Plus is Ghirardelli Square, a festive complex of shops and restaurants carved out of an old chocolate factory by Architects Wurster, Bernardi & Emmons. Matson Line Heirs Mrs. William P. Roth and her son have spent $10 million on the project, lured such prestige tenants as Design Research and Trader Vic Bergeron, who put in a Mexican restaurant called Senor Pico's. Now the Roths are expanding further into an adjacent woolen mill...