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...Oldtimers' Day." In the movies, it is called There Was a Crooked Man. The combined age of the participants is Methuselahistic, and the plot is not much younger. For his game, Director Joseph Mankiewicz chose such veterans as Arthur O'Connell, Burgess Meredith, Hume Cronyn and Martin Gabel. Together, their gray thatches look like a stand of dandelions gone to seed. One good breath and their hair might vanish, two deep ones and the picture itself might be gone-and no one the poorer...
Fairly good reviews for his "subversive comedy," Sheep on the Runway, may have launched a playwright's career for Columnist Art Buchwald (see THE THEATER). Meanwhile, cocktail conversation in New York and Washington is centered on Sheep's catalyst, Joseph Mayflower, played by Martin Gabel. Could Mayflower, a superhawk newsman who drinks only bottled water and claims Is Peace Inevitable? among his writing credits, possibly be a parody of Pundit Joseph Alsop? Buchwald denies it unconvincingly, but Alsop seems to think so. "If Joe's still angry after the run," suggests the humorist, "we'll meet...
...cast is uneven, and Director Gene Saks too often seems merely to have urged his actors toward assorted bedlam. Martin Gabel displays a finely arrogant condescension as the Hawk, who can sniff out Communist threats in unpopulated jungles, and David Burns as the Ambassador hilariously exhales his words like a trombone in anguish. A lavish campaign contributor, he storms that Washington doesn't even know where his post is. That is the play's problem as well, but the laughs are located at Broadway's Helen Hayes Theater, and in a dry season they are thirst quenchers...
...action, in brief, was this: Joe Mayflower-Alsop (played by Arlene Francis's husband, Martin Gabel) visits a minor-minor American embassy high in the Himalayas which is corrupt but quite content. Joe sticks his famed journalist's ear to the ground and the drums tell him "this place is boiling underneath. I can feel...
...movie one of these days, but that is probably an effort more meticulous than they're capable of. They have come out with a second LP, which was partly inspired by the Lampoon's house rock band, the Central Park Zoo, whose members include Poonies Mark Stumpf and Peter Gabel, and whose single 45 record can be played on the juke-box in nearby Tommy's Lunch. Along with Stumpf, the prime movers behind the new record were Jonathan Cerf, who was once Ibis, and former Hasty Pudding Show writer, Peter Larson...