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...character with a strong does of the ridiculous, and his Tartuffe becomes a true figure of satire. Orgon, although the personification of another variety of folly, elicits very different reactions. Played by John Cross, he is a pathetic, even pitiable character, grossly misguided in his worship of a false idol...
...father, a wholesale meat dealer in Sunnyside, Queens, encouraged Caan to take up sports. It was as a teen-age basketball star that Jimmy first heard the roar of the greasepaint. After college, he spent four years at New York City acting schools. His idol was Brando ("Anyone of my generation who tells you he hasn't 'done' Brando is lying"), and like him, Caan works from externals. "I wait for osmosis to take over," explains Jimmy...
...block the puck with their heavy leg pads. The maneuver has two drawbacks: the 6-oz. vulcanized rubber disk can slip between his legs as the goalie flops; and once he is on the ice, he is helpless against rebound shots. Parent's approach, copied from his idol and teacher, Stand-Up Master Jacques Plante, requires more finesse but provides far tighter defense against rebounds. When attackers start to charge his net at speeds revving up to 30 m.p.h., Parent begins a familiar ritual: he knocks his stick on his skates, moves a few feet...
Neil Sedaka: Sedaka's Back (Rocket). As an early '60s teen-age idol of prom crowds in strapless formals and ducktail haircuts, Sedaka wrote more than 75 top ten hits. Then the Beatles squeezed out shooby-dooby, and Sedaka slipped into obscurity. In his first U.S. album in twelve years, he retains his cozy, cheerful style; yet his songs dig deeper. Laughter in the Rain is already a hit, and Solitaire and Standing on the Inside have high musical polish...
Such problems are doubly disappointing because Kazan has tackled a subject on which he qualifies as an expert: actors. Sonny, 54, broke into Broadway as the understudy for Sidney Castleman (né Schlossberg), a much bellied matinee idol 20 years his senior. Now the worm has turned. Castleman is on the skids, sponging off Sonny while sneering at him as a "mechanical rabbit," a thespian technocrat devoid of true passion. To top it all, Castleman involves Sonny in a gang war between black hoodlums and a Polish mobster. But Sonny simply loves the old gaffer all the more...