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...excellent New York restaurant, about $18 then, now costs $80 (up 344%). If music be the food of love, one might be tempted to tell the circling violinists to play on. The problem is the tip: $5, up 900% from the 50? that would have satisfied a '50s fiddler. Dom Perignon champagne, to celebrate a month (six months?) of togetherness, bubbles over at $65, a 442% increase over $12. A little silver "something" weighs in at $13 per oz., up 907% from...
...Black & White period as a spectacular director who masterfully designs long takes and exciting compositions. He enjoys the metaphorical blank screeen, toys with soundtrack blasts and whispers with the control of a superb cinematic technician. One shot, a wide landscape that turns Allen's dancing silhouette into a contemporary fiddler on the roof, is absolutely gorgeous. Allen's expert eye and ear are matched by the steady hand of Gordon Willis (who shot Manhattan) behind the camera...
...Senators is $60,663. But some senatorial moonlighting for spare change is also allowed. Thus in financial disclosure statements filed last week, interesting sidelines showed up. Majority Leader Robert C. Byrd of West Virginia, as deft at bluegrass fiddling as at politicking, earned $3,888 from an album (Mountain Fiddler) and $1,600 from fiddle playing on TV and radio. Republican William S. Cohen, took in less than $1,000 selling hay from his Maine farm, but an impressive $12,390 in royalties on his book of poems, Of Sons & Seasons. Vermont's Pat Leahy made...
Philly tries hard and succeeds a little at a school for retarded adults. He goes to a performance of Fiddler on the Roof, whose music he loves, and then backstage with the show's star, Zero Mostel. "How old are you?" asks Mostel. "Sixteen," says Philly, without hesitation. "Me too," says Mostel. Then they sing If I Were a Rich Man together, a comic genius and a man who could be called an idiot, meeting on equal terms of humanity...
...doing a new show soon. "What interests me is a great challenge," he says, "like doing Uncle Tom 's Cabin as the Siamese might do it [The King and I or a Mack Sennett ballet [High Button Shoes] or gritty backstage burlesque [Gypsy] or Jewish shtetl life [Fiddler]. I like doing the research, looking at the theatrical magazines of those periods or going through old photographs at the New York Public Library. Let's face it, a musical version of Little Women just isn't going to grab me." What does grab Robbins, it seems...