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...host, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, behaved with great delicacy. Like an earlier West German Chancellor, Willy Brandt, who visited Israel in 1973, Kohl went first to the Yad Vashem memorial, Israel's monument to the victims of the Holocaust. As a girls' choir sang - and a cantor offered a prayer "for the dead, Kohl laid a wreath beside the eternal flame. At a dinner that evening, Shamir told his guest, "We are not prisoners of the past. We remember it out of belief in a better future...
Owen, for example, remembers that the Thursday night before The Game, Harvard football graduates would hold a dinner for the team in Brookline. At the dinner before his senior year game, Eddie Cantor, a famous vaudeville actor of the 1920's, attended and promised the team tickets to his show if they beat Yale. Harvard proceeded to win by a 10-3 count...
...picking up on Cantor's promise, the squad went into Boston to see his show. "Afterwards we went back stage to meet the cast," says Owen. "Everyone was being so nice to us. I knew something was up." It turned out that after seeing the size of the Harvard team, Cantor had persuaded everyone in the cast to place what had turned out to be successful bets on the Harvard team...
...Alley has been hard at it since the U.S. entered the war, patching together patriotic songs. First number to hit the radio networks was sung by Eddie Cantor and Dinah Shore. Title: We Did It Before and We Can Do It Again...
Unfortunately, the view is obscured by Olivier's peculiarly busy performance. As in The Jazz Singer, in which he played the cantor, he seems to have stepped right out of the "oy vay" school of acting. Although he is not helped by dialogue that circles repetitively over the same terrain, his shrieking and spluttering become dull and annoying; he turns a simple character into a simple-minded one. By contrast, Gleason, the king of comedic excess, is a model of restraint as the spiffy Mr. Johnson. The two men's budding fondness for each other feels forced...