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Most damaging of all is that essential human material is skimped. Serpico's honesty, and his appreciation of the diversity of urban life, are scarcely rooted. Lumet lets us glimpse the man's Old World Italian family (his father and brother are cobblers) and his Greenwich Village girlfriends. He creates locker-room comedy out of Serpico's love for opera and ballet. But the crucial gap between his personal life and public service, and the despair that drove him to paranoia and defensive put-ons are only vaguely rendered, like a plainclothesman's arrest sheets...
Moriarty lives now in Greenwich Village with his wife Franchise, a former dancer with the Jeffrey Ballet, and their one-year-old son. A self-taught jazz pianist, he spends his free time filling in at small jazz spots in his neighborhood. He will not become really good as an actor, he says, until he is 40. "All the best work onstage comes from men of 40 and up. That is when the heart begins to creep into the technique in England, and when actors in America learn not to indulge themselves." Meanwhile, audiences can look forward to the next...
...this-guy response--a comforting thought. But you never feel sorry for him. He understands somehow where he would be if life treated him better, and he is never lost, never helpless. He always has a home, somewhere, at the movies in Play It Again, Sam, or his 1973 Greenwich Village health food store in Sleeper...
...Shinjuku, Tokyo's equivalent of New York's Greenwich Village or London's Soho, the facades of at least 1,000 clubs throw off all the colors of the rainbow. Inside, the thermostats seem to have been raised, not lowered; customers peel off their jackets, and even the bikini-clad B-girls perspire in the heat. At a restaurant on the Ginza, the headwaiter reports a more-frenzied-than-usual pace of drinking. "They drink as though this were their last big fling," he says, both gratified and concerned by the booming sales...
Died. Jimmy Cannon, 63, longtime reporter and syndicated sportswriter; of a stroke; in Manhattan. Cannon grew up in New York's Greenwich Village and at 17 went to work as a copy boy for the Daily News on the lobster shift. He covered everything from wars to murder trials but eventually settled down to sportswriting, encouraged by Hearst Columnist Damon Runyon. A chunky bachelor, Cannon wrote mainly about big-league sport. He also recounted debates of bettors and bums like Two Head Charlie and The Blotter as they examined life's ironies after midnight on the side streets...