Word: broadway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PRODUCERS. Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder play two Broadway producers in this disjointed and inconsistent movie, which, in spite of its many faults, occasionally rises to classic comic heights...
...people in love can, and inevitably will, be each other's heaven and hell. So argues Arnold Wesker in his latest play, The Four Seasons, which opened, off-Broadway last week. Love buds in spring rain, blossoms in summer ardor, withers and stales in autumnal tiffs and recriminations, and turns to icy death in a winter of unfeeling. The play is intimate and perceptive, though it lacks dramatic vigor. The language that might have lifted it to poetry is too often absent. Yet the playwright's intent is aspiring and his subject compels attention...
...Unlike nature, the American public adores a vacuum," says a character in Weekend. The thesis will certainly be tested by the fate of Gore Vidal's new Broadway comedy about a presidential hopeful. Vidal is capable of springy, sophisticated political humor, as he demonstrated in The Best Man (1960); but this time the jokes are either juvenile or senile. Most of the characters are as appealing as wads of wet Kleenex, and the story line is about as amusing as the Congressional Record...
...that he will capture 61% of the city vote if he accedes to the interracial match, the Senator bestows his blessing on the couple. By and large, the performers act depressed by the lines they mouth, although perky Carol Cole-daughter of the late Nat King Cole, making her Broadway debut -looks much nicer than the play...
...also put City deep into such investments as Sterling Forest, a 30-sq.-mi. sylvan tract 40 miles from Manhattan being developed for corporate research facilities (among its tenants: International Nickel, Reichhold Chemicals). Other City properties range from Florida retirement communities to shopping centers as well as two Broadway theaters...