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...enthusiastic audience, which included a large proportion of emigre Russians, students and critics, fastened on Kremer's gaunt, almost spectral appearance as well as his spellbinding playing. Whatever a Soviet fiddler should look like (Oistrakh was round and beefy, his rival Leonid Kogan short and slender), Kremer does not fit the image. His is more that of an intellectual rock-'n'-roll star badly in need of a square meal. He weighs but 125 lbs. and consequently looks a foot taller than his 5 ft. 9 in. He wears his brown hair long and his sideburns...
...paunch may protrude a bit farther stage front, but otherwise Tevye the milkman hasn't changed much since Zero Mostel created the role in 1964. Fiddler on the Roof, the longest-running show on Broadway (nearly eight years), is back from its Diaspora, and Mostel, 61, is again playing the part like a hyperthyroid zeppelin. Why did Mostel return to Anatevka? "Greed!" he bellowed at an opening-night party last week at Manhattan's Tavern on the Green, where he Zeroed in on friends and tugged at a lady's bouffant wig. Wife Kate finally...
...touching. How many novelists are any of the three? He has resources, and he uses all of them in pursuit of goals most novelists would not dare attempt. He has had his novel illustrated by not one but two artists. If he could stick an LP by a Vermont fiddler to the jacket and impregnate the binding with the smell of hay and apples-and maybe marijuana-he would do that too. He wants it all. There are writers today who can do one thing as well as Gardner. But with October Light, the question must be asked: Is there...
Mostel also said his motivation for doing the current New York revival of "Fiddler on the Roof" was "primarily greed...
...also likes to play roles other than the fiddler, he said, including serious parts. Asked if he would do scenes from movies such as "Last Tango in Paris," he said that he would...