Word: cameos
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...began with leaving a gold pencil at a gin game," Ben Sack tells it. Sack is a heavy-set, determined man. A light grey business suit complements his wavy, greying hair. Black cameo cufflinks are the only pieces of ostentation he allows himself. His no-nonsense manner at first appears belligerent. The intimacy of his conversation, however, soon betrays his grim seriousness. "When I went back next day to get the pencil," he continues, "a young boy whose father owned a movie chain asked me if I would like to make an investment in a theatre he was building." Sack...
...JACK BENNY SPECIAL (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Lucille Ball, Johnny Carson, Ben Blue and Paul Revere and the Raiders join Jack on the midway for "Jack Benny's Carnival Nights," featuring cameo appearances by Bob Hope, Dean Martin, Danny Thomas and the Smothers Brothers in the guise of assorted sideshow performers and carny characters...
...running off-Broadway. Mailer and a few of the actors got into the habit of boozing together in a Greenwich Village restaurant after performances. As boys will, they fell into a game of let's pretend. They pretended they were Sicilian gangsters, and they gave themselves names-Cameo, Twenty Years, The Prince (Mailer, of course)-and they talked tough and dirty at each other night after night. It was all such fun that Mailer laid out $1,500, moved his make-believe Mafiosos into a large empty office, supplied them with submachine guns and pistols and plenty of liquor...
Jerry Dodge's drunken Porter is a commendable cameo. And he gives an admirable solution to one textual problem. Just before Macduff and Lennox enter through the gate, the Porter has the line, "I pray you, remember the porter." A number of scholars claim this is meant as an aside to the audience--which seems pretty silly. Dodge, however, saves the line until Macduff enters, and then speaks it with one palm extended, thereby turning it into a request for a tip in return for having roused himself to open the gate at an ungodly hour...
...trouble is that one sees little but characterizations, and cameo characterizations at that. The production is a series of marvelous still photographs freezing colorful characters in revealing attitudes. There can be some movement within scenes: a first-act police station swarms with people, voices and crimes in a little masterpiece of Everingham's physical and vocal choreography. Glaser and Kramer, and Glaser and Miss Walker can move toward climax and depth in the confines of a single scene. But little holds the scenes together, and when in the third act the play enters its third hour at the same time...