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...temporary forward camp inside Syria, we encountered Chaim Topol -the movie star who played Tevye the Milkman in Fiddler on the Roof. As soon as the war started, Topol rushed home from London to volunteer his services. He was assigned to be an escort officer for visiting correspondents. The soldiers who crowded round the actor were not disappointed. "I took some correspondents to the Sinai the other day," he told the men, grinning. "When we got close to the shooting, one of them said that he had to get back to Tel Aviv because he had a deadline." The soldiers...
...maintenance of New York City's Philharmonic Hall (now renamed for Fisher). Yet the bequest was announced at the most critical stage of the New York Philharmonic's labor talks, and since none of the money was for wages, it must have struck many a fiddler or trumpeter as a colossal case of bad timing...
...never promised you a rosegarden..." wouldn't send you begging for a copy of James Brown's "Hot Pants," it's doubtful that anything would. Good country music has largely been a triumph of performance over material, and there is no question that any first-rate country guitarist, fiddler, or banjo player could put most rock musicians to shame...
...life. At 45, he is the most creative man in the American musical theater today, with ten Tony awards for musicals he has either produced or directed-or both. In the past several years he has produced not only the longest-running show in Broadway's history, Fiddler on the Roof, but also two of the most innovative ones, Company and Follies. To hear him complain about possible failure-never a very distant possibility on Broadway -is a little like listening to Jean Paul Getty moan about rising meat prices...
...vanishing American involvement: the daily military press briefing, an eight-year-old Saigon spectacle known as the 5 O'Clock Follies, had its final performance with an American cast. Army Major Jere Forbus, the last Follies star, sighed, "Well, we may not have been perfect, but we outlasted Fiddler on the Roof." The Associated Press Saigon bureau chief, Richard Pyle, was less benign but more accurate when he called the briefings "the longest-playing tragicomedy in Southeast Asia's theater of the absurd...