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...says, and clapping his hands, calls out, "Okay, places everybody. We're working on Act One, then running straight through... Oh, by the way," he turns back. "I'm doing the part. Yeah, Amsterdam--but not on purpose, I'll explain later." He joins the other singers--Curt, Patty, and Paula--behind the backdrop, and the overture begins for Tuesday's rehearsal...
...THINK of Brel as a celebration of life--as it is. There's an amazing coherence in the show. The characterization is pretty much evident in the script. There's a division between the introspective and the outgoing. It's always song-countersong: Curt sings about marriage, I sing of brothels; Paula sings 'Timid Frieda' while Patty sings 'My Death.' It's really twenty-six scenes, not just songs. It works as theater because it limits drama to a minimum, cutting out the extraneous. It gets down to a core...
...CURT RALSTON was both clever and affecting as "The Statue" of a war hero that cynically comments on the inscription at its feet and the cant of passersby. But sometimes Ralston lets his marionette affectations dominate numbers that would be better played naturally. Paula Rose is the "Timid Frieda" and keeps her reserve amidst the general flamboyance: she is a useful touchstone for calm and excels in romantic numbers such as "I Loved...
...cash: agents and confrontations with the sports establishments." The book explores the new sophistication of the athlete, who brought his lawyer-agent to the contract bargaining table, and sat around checking his investment portfolios instead of playing poker as he did in an earlier era. Durso discusses the Curt Flood suit, and the player strikes objectively, assessing the ramifications of the new legalistic bent in professional athletics. Unfortunately, he hesitates to draw conclusions, but merely offers observations. His professional sports-writer perspective prevents any penetrating analysis...
Smith refused to comment on LIFE'S charges for the present. The Justice Department issued a curt denial. But two former federal investigators who were involved in the cases supported LIFE'S story. One of the strongest denunciations came from Vice President Spiro Agnew. In Los Angeles for a press conference of high school journalists, Agnew declared, "I don't have a high respect for a magazine that has such a high gullibility quotient that they would publish the Clifford Irving story." LIFE, of course, never did publish the Irving story. Agnew added, "The best and most...