Word: franciosa
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...hailed a prowl car under the impression that it was a taxi. In Birdland, a Manhattan jazz emporium, two weeks ago there was another brush with the law after an argument over a $7.60 check. "I never know how he's going to react," says Actor Anthony Franciosa, a friend. "Sometimes he tries to provoke me into an argument. Other times he's incredibly gentle. Or, sometimes, when I say to him, 'Norman, how are you?' he'll say, 'Cut the crap; you don't really mean that...
Sockless Guests. Mailer reached his Barbary Shore last week after a monumental weekend that began with a party in his West Side Manhattan apartment. The 200 guests were right out of a Mailer manuscript: poets, prizefighters, homosexuals, writers, Big Beat Allen Ginsburg, Actor Franciosa, Commentary Editor Norman Podhoretz, Critic Delmore Schwartz. Syndicated Name Dropper Leonard Lyons left in a dudgeon when the sockless hipsters began to outnumber the quality folk ("I couldn't see the furniture for the beats"). The host and hostess welcomed their swarming guests in separate rooms, and as the party roared past the midnight hour...
...Pont Show of the Month (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). "Heaven Can Wait," a remake of the memorable 1941 movie, "Here Comes Mr. Jordan," about a boxer who becomes world champion through heavenly intervention. With Robert Morley, Anthony Franciosa and Wally...
...Young) who visits her one night in her kitchen. The husband catches them, pulls a pistol, is shot dead in the scuffle. Charged with murder, the pair are defended by two attorneys-he by a boozy old bungler, she by a fast-talking, hard-sweating young attorney (Anthony Franciosa) who seems to be terribly afraid that he will not get his client out of the clink and into the clinch. The poor boy does not seem to understand, as audiences readily will, that the lovers are not really being tried for murder but for adultery, that the jury...
...sentimental pablum-hardly the dish a customer expects from Playwright Clifford (Waiting for Lefty] Odets. Scriptwriter Odets here takes his first crack in 15 years at directing a picture, and perhaps should be forgiven some errors of inexperience. But seasoned Producer Jerry Wald might have done something about Actor Franciosa, an almost comically intense young man who reads every line as though it were his last. No such luck...