Word: isn
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Such projects generate an immense -and justified-pride. "We've been treated unfairly," says Indianapolis' Mattie Coney, "but fairness isn't the argument. Black people are easily identified-they just plain have to be better behaved or they give the prejudiced white man a weapon." In a letter made public last
...twelve week stand as Dolly at the Riviera in Las Vegas. That brings to eleven the number of you broads who have played, are playing and will play the role. I'm not counting Barbra Streisand, who will do the movie next year because-well, Hollywood just isn't legit. Besides, I only had a piece of Funny Girl...
Pack 'Em In. The possibility arises that Goldman himself is Dorff, ironically, making a new life for himself as a Jew. "This isn't a rest cure," he barks at one point. "Back to work, scum. Nobody gets out except through the chimney!" Soon, a team of Israeli agents appears. They kidnap him and take him to Israel to stand trial...
Corman is unlucky, as usual, with his cast. Jason Robards shouldn't have played Capone even if he were the only available brunette in Hollywood. He looks like a fine man who tumbled into the murder business by accident; he isn't crass enough for silk scarves and tophats to look appropriately ridiculous on him. Ralph Meeker, his Irish contender, is more like a gangster. His grubby soul shines right through his lovely suit. George Segal, another Irishman, has Robards handicap-elemental elegance. On top of that, he bears such an incredible resemblance to Robards that when...
...sole thread of dramatic coherence is Lincoln's growing consciousness that this day is the ordained and necessary day of death, the catalogue of anecdote and reference might be, lamely but legitimately, the drowning man's life passing before his eyes. But Kirstein's dramatic and literary skill isn't enough to carry it off. The scenes stand on stage until they wilt while the words waddle back and forth, nibbling at them...