Word: castleman
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...kind of show that only a museum with the resources of MOMA could bring together-more than 450 prints, books and bronzes, accompanied by a catalogue raisonné by Art Historian Una Johnson, and all assembled by MOMA's director of prints and illustrated books, Riva Castleman...
Such problems are doubly disappointing because Kazan has tackled a subject on which he qualifies as an expert: actors. Sonny, 54, broke into Broadway as the understudy for Sidney Castleman (né Schlossberg), a much bellied matinee idol 20 years his senior. Now the worm has turned. Castleman is on the skids, sponging off Sonny while sneering at him as a "mechanical rabbit," a thespian technocrat devoid of true passion. To top it all, Castleman involves Sonny in a gang war between black hoodlums and a Polish mobster. But Sonny simply loves the old gaffer all the more...
Instead of seeing an analyst, Sonny goes off on an African safari. While watching the lions gnaw on bits of zebras and wildebeests, he ponders the survival of the fittest and all the superb reasons for putting Castleman behind him. But it is no use. Only Castleman's death will release the younger man from his loyal bondage. Even worse, only Castleman's death, which does not oocur until seven pages from the end, releases readers from one of the more tiresome fictional presences in recent memory...
...acting profession, with its embattled loyalties and ulcerous rivalries, is a better place than most to find it. Kazan, however, rarely trusts his material to stand on its own. He piles up absurdities, apparently hoping that someone will say, "I couldn't put it down." On one page Castleman kisses Sonny's hand, then "wallops" him across the face on the next...