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...Hirschfeld Phantom of the Opera. Commissioned by Abe Hirschfeld, the New York City real estate magnate, this version was written by Bruce Falstein, with some decent songs by Lawrence Rosen and Paul Schierhorn. It opened in February 1990 at the Clarion Castle, Hirschfeld's Miami Beach hotel, and played for four fat months. This Phantom is a dream creature, the spirit of Christine's musical and romantic ambition; he tells her, "I am whatever you want me to be." A videotape of the show was briefly released as a movie in 1991, but neither the play nor the film...
LAWRENCE I. FALSTEIN...
FACE OF A HERO (312 pp.)-Louis Falstein-Harcourf, Brace...
...come out of World War II." It is powerful only if a mixture of bitterness and resentment can be called power, and it is not so much a novel as one grouser's-eye view of the war in the air. The author is First Novelist Louis Falstein, a gunner who completed his 50 missions, won the Air Medal and added a couple of clusters to it. His hero and narrator is Gunner Ben Isaacs, a congenital soul searcher, as much at war with his neurotic self as with Nazi Germany...
...seems fairly clear that not only Ben but Author Falstein, too, is out to hand-pick an ugly side of the war and call it the whole picture. It would be hard to guess from Face of a Hero that the war was won, that Hitler was rubbed out, that millions of G.I.s knew very well, beneath their gripes, what the score...
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