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...Federal District Court also quashed yesterday subpoenas calling for grand jury testimony by Noam Chomsky, Ward Professor of Linguistics at MIT: Richard Falk, Milbank Professor of International Law at Princeton; and Ralph Stavins, a member of the Institute for Policy Studies in Washington. The ruling was made on the grounds that a government affidavit denying wiretapping, filed last month, is insufficient...
During his first 30 months in New York, Falk found stage and TV work for all but six days. His credits included Siobhan McKenna's St. Joan and numerous TV tough-guy roles, among them an Emmy-winning performance on the Dick Powell Show...
...invited to Hollywood by Columbia Pictures, but the studio's boss at the time, Harry Cohn, vetoed him on the grounds that Falk had a glass eye (he lost his right eye as the result of a tumor when he was three). "Look," Cohn said to him, "for the same price I can get an actor with two eyes." Falk went to other studios, and in his first two pictures earned Oscar nominations in the supporting-actor category-one for his vicious evocation of Abe Reles in Murder Inc. (1960), the other for his Runyonesque hood in Frank Capra...
...demanding role since then was in Husbands (1970), the tour de force about three middle-aged men on a desperation bender. He co-financed the film and co-starred with two of his best cronies, John Cassavetes and Ben Gazzara. In the self-conscious and easygoing Archie of Husbands, Falk found a character who was the image of his own half-studied, uncouth offstage self. A onetime "pool junkie" (the all-nighters over the billiard table may explain his hunched posture), Falk is still a steady gambler on "baskets, pro ball and the fights." Though his wife of eleven years...
...current Broadway role as Mel, the harried adman who is having a mental breakdown, Falk sees more of the "screamer and worrier" he would like to be. "I'm incredibly even-natured, and I don't like that," he says. "It's better when an actor responds like a child -fast. For the short haul, I find a maniac more interesting than someone in control." Still, he is the first to admit in his best hangdog manner that it is too late for a lifelong mutt to become a high-strung thoroughbred. As he says...