Word: broadways
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...center of it all is an aimiable British comedian, Frankie Howerd, who plays a character named John Emery Rockefeller--conveniently giving the authors the opportunity to include a raft of Rockefeller jokes. (The play's being retitled Rockefeller and the Indians for its Broadway bow.) Mr. Howerd could probably be quite funny, if he were not hampered by such handicaps as the script and direction. Perhaps if Mr. Shevelove let his star run wild and ignore the play, Sassafras would draw more laughs than its present quota...
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Despite that warning, few readers of the document that was made public last week are likely to be prepared for the results of the three-month investigation by the Philadelphia police and the district attorney's office. Reading like a scene from last year's off-Broadway prison expose, Fortune and Men's Eyes, it is a depressing catalogue of homosexual assaults in the city's prisons and the sheriff's vans. Virtually no young man of slight build who enters prison is safe from attack, the investigators found. Most are overwhelmed and raped...
...Clark Gable in 1937 and given a screen test that started his career as filmdom's comic guy-next-door. By the late '40s, he was writing and directing his own movies; he tried TV with The Dennis O'Keefe Show in 1959 and made his Broadway debut in 1964's Never Live Over a Pretzel Factory...