Word: gallos
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...weakest link in Fantasticks is LeoPierre Roy, who plays El Gallo. Roy is a veteran of many Harvard theatricals, and his performance is not a casualty of incompetence, but miscasting. El Gallo is the most difficult role in the show. He must sing the beautiful opening ballad "Try to Remember," introduce the characters, narrate the action, abduct Luisa and allow himself to be beaten by Matt, and philosophize on the Meaning of It All. Roy is a good actor, but he is all wrong for the part, El Gallo is supposed to be dark, handsome, suave, sophisticated...
From these reports, Associate Editor Spencer Davidson, who has visited Israel five times and has worked out of our Cairo and Beirut bureaus, wrote the story, assisted by Reporter-Researchers Ursula Nadasdy de Gallo and Susan Reed. It was his 15th Middle East cover story; his first was in 1969 and was on Golda Meir. Most of them, he notes, "have been late-starting, because things have a way of happening suddenly over there." Sums up Davidson: "When you've spent so much time writing about the Middle East, you feel compassion for all the people involved. I hope...
Despite its title, the mistake in Failing doesn't become apparent until the end. This new play by Guy Gallo (winner of the 1977 Anderson Prize for Playwriting at Harvard) and directed by visiting director Lester W. Thompson, is about an increasingly frail scholar who, with the help of an increasingly confused young man, is trying to discover why a plot, planned many years ago, went wrong. Together, they are writing the history of a friend of the scholar who had planned to assassinate Hitler but never did. Though I won't give away the end, I will hint that...
...also boosted newsstand sales by featuring a show-biz celebrity on the cover each month. The August cover offering a guide to 500 Southern California restaurants, pictures Rex Harrison awaiting dinner with a salivating smile-and an uncorked bottle of Chateau Latour '69. That, in the kingdom of Gallo is class...
...Vincent Gallo, an activist Catholic priest, summed up the attitudes of people roaming his Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhood...