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...favorable review in the Washington Post, where Au thor Woodward heads up the investigative reporting staff, is drawing the kind of hoopla usually kindled by more conventional show-biz behemoths; an excerpt has also appeared in Playboy. Like some Hollywood superproduction, the book boasts a long list of cameo appearances by stars (Jack Nicholson, Robin Williams, Robert De Niro, Carrie Fisher and miscellaneous The Rolling Stones) whose presence has nothing of importance to contribute save what agents and producers like to call "name value...
...cameo roles, such as Yente the match-maker (Kamala Soparker) and the Rabbi (Peter Reale) are also noteworthy, While both characters are traditional stereotypes, Soparker and Reale put in enough energy to keep them from going state. In fact, the only minor character that does not transcend his stereotype is the Fiddler himself, whose obviously fake board emphasizes his obviously fake fiddling. But since the fiddler mainly appears on the rooftop, or peaks around the corner of the set, he does not direct from the overall effect...
There is no contradiction between Hitchcock' canny conservatism and his directorial eminence profit and honor went hand in glove. Even his brief cameo appearances (silhouetted in the neon skyline of Rope, for example) are a playful cue to the viewer to watch every frame for tricks and revelations. The qualities that made him the world's best-known moviemaker were precisely the ones that made him one of the best film artists...
...both Gerald Ford and Henry Kissinger know, nothing could be stranger than the intricate power struggles of real-life politics, except perhaps the convolutions of the prime-time TV soap Dynasty. Ford, 70, and Kissinger, 60, will make cameo appearances next week on the program. It was filmed at an actual charity benefit for the Children's Diabetes Foundation. During the big party scene, Ford and Wife Betty meet Blake and Krystle Carrington (John Forsythe and Linda Evans), and Kissinger exchanges greetings with Krystle's nemesis, Alexis (Joan Collins). Will Blake charm Jerry into a profitable business deal...
Simensksy said that each episode features as well-known Penn personality in a cameo appearance. In the premier, Penn President Sheldon Hackney played a hot dog vendor...