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...HAVE A DREAM Conceived and Directed by ROBERT GREENWALD Adapted by JOSH GREENFELD...
...spending all his efforts on launching his career as a matinee idol. Earlier this year, in Washington. D.C., he portrayed Martin Luther King Jr. in Josh Greenfeld's play I Have a Dream. He is currently working on a Universal back lot, playing the part of Black Composer Scott Joplin for an NBC special this fall. His mustache shorn, his hair slickly marcelled, Billy Dee sits before a dummy piano, miming perfect syncopation to Joplin's ragtime. Suddenly, on cue, he is distracted by the arrival of a lovely onlooker (Black Actress Margaret A very). Their eyes meet...
...about what was "live" and what was on tape, it hardly made a difference. The men of the electronic age were desperately trying to tell a story that would not overload our frayed human wiring. The degree to which they succeeded was summed up best by Novelist-Screenwriter Josh Greenfeld: "On Tuesday afternoon I didn't know anything about gymnastics. By Thursday night, Olga Korbut had let me down...
...course he was nobody's first choice. It was written for another Irishman, James Cagney, who turned it down. Twentieth Century-Fox then suggested Laurence Olivier, even Frank Sinatra, before Director Paul Mazursky called on Art. Even Carney was not sure he wanted it. "I liked Josh Greenfeld's script, but face it, I felt insecure playing a 72-year-old man." But his wife Barbara thought he would be crazy not to take it. So did his agent Bill McCaffrey, who said...
...kind of sentimentality that Harry has used to coddle himself for so long. It also suffers from Art Carney's portrayal of Harry. He is studious and low-keyed, but his characterization lacks depth and misses the urgencies of old age. Like Carney, Mazursky and Co-Writer Josh Greenfeld are so eager to settle Harry down and give him some sort of peace that they make everything just a little too easy to take and to believe...