Word: hals
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...actress recalls. "I had to walk the streets of New Haven with Bobby every goddam night. He kept saying how awful he was. He bit his nails and cried. The cast hated him. He was stealing the show." Steal it he did, with a devastating caricature of Broadway Producer Hal Prince; but in his next appearance, as Richard Miller in Take Me Along, he failed to steal top honors from the masterful Jackie Gleason, and had to settle merely for superb notices...
...importance of sexual inter-course in an affair is clear to Dr. Binger--in many cases it serves to relieve almost unbearable pressure. But that affair may at once have the healthy effect of relaxation and the disconcerting effect of distraction, is evident in Sallie Bingham's description of Hal's thoughts while studying with Eleanor in "Winter Term...
Dual Piano Jazz (Dave McKenna, Hal Overton; Bethlehem). An inspired teaming of two pianists who organize their twining duets with admirable clarity and liquid ease. Monk's Mood and Ruby, My Dear-both by Thelonious-are worth the price of the album...
...Know the Milky Way? (by Karl Wittlinger) presents two actors playing twelve roles in a search for one man's identity. They never find it. Hal Holbrook (best known for his Mark Twain act) touchingly plays the hero, a childlike German veteran of World War II whose tormented self-quest has made him a patient in a mental institution. George Voskovec plays his psychiatrist and all other speaking roles in a virtuoso acting stint. In pursuit of "psychodramatic therapy," doctor and patient enact Holbrook's life until he winds up as a daredevil motorcyclist in an act called...
...apartment. The doctor summoned Dorothy, by then living elsewhere, and with two male nurses and a straitjacket they carted Lewis off to a hospital. The whole time Lewis screamed, in frenzied parody of his wife: "You are sick, sick . . . Can't you take hold of yourself? . . . Hal, listen, please, this is Dorothy! Hear...