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Isaac Goodfriend, the ebullient cantor of an Atlanta synagogue and singer of the National Anthem at Carter's Inauguration, also returned without bitterness. Hidden by Polish farmers, Goodfriend came back 35 years later to the house of his saviors with presents and memories. The family reciprocated-with a lunch of Polish...
...characters of Alain and Georgette give actors a chance to have fun and ham it up a bit. Michael Cantor plays Alain with appropriate dopiness. Alice Brown, however, fails to take advantage of the comic potential of Georgette, reciting her lines flatly. When she is not speaking, Brown seems to forget she is onstage and watches the antics going on about her with almost complete detachment...
...Henry, Charles Repole moves with the erratic precision of a broken watch spring, but his tap and soft-shoe dances possess the style that Walter Mitty's dreams are made of. He looks astonishingly like Eddie Cantor, the show's original star, but his manner is endearingly cuddlesome, rather like Joel Grey's. Choreographer Dan Siretta's dance numbers blaze across the stage like prairie fires, and the smashing chorus girls are a bouquet of red, red roses...
Declaring himself an "independent Marxist," Reed settled in a plush lakeside villa in East Berlin in 1973 and married an East German; they are now divorced. He has kept his American citizenship and periodically revisited the U.S. He came to Minnesota to promote El Cantor, a movie about a Chilean singer who Reed claims was tortured to death after the fall of Marxist President Salvador Allende...
...years I have been the spiritual leader of the Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles. Among our large congregation have been many comedians. Jack Benny and Eddie Cantor were members until their death...