Word: joes
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...known as Broadway Joe, but perhaps he should now be called Off-Broadway Joe. Or, more accurately, Akron Joe, for it was there that Joe Namath made his stage debut last week. Appearing in a production of William Inge's Picnic, the former football player played, well, a former football player named Hal Carter. Namath, as always, moved well and turned on the charm; as always, he gave the ritual credits to team and coach. "I relied on people around me," he said, adding that "the director sure did a great job getting me ready." The schedule now calls...
...SEDUCTION OF JOE TYNAN Directed by Jerry Schatzberg Written by Alan Alda
Harry Truman took a liking to Joe Stalin, but when he got a case of the old dictator's best vodka, Truman gave it away, wondering about any man who would drink the stuff over bourbon. Truman watched with fascination as Secretary of State Dean Acheson verbally diminished Secretary of Defense Louis Johnson, who had the idea he should be a larger figure around the White House...
After a series of strike-outs like last year's Same Time, Next Year and California Suite, Alan Alda has finally made good. In The Seduction of Joe Tynan -forget the dreadful title-he at last gives a movie performance that captures the brittle tenderness of his work on TV's M*;A*;S*H. As Tynan, a likable liberal Senator from New York, Alda usually ends up on the side of right, yet he manages to take the sanctimoniousness out of heroism. His Senator is self-critical, unpretentious and witty. He also looks great in a three...
...entirely by chance that Joe Tynan is Alda's breakthrough role: he wrote the movie himself. He is not yet a polished craftsman; the overambitious screenplay tosses out far more narrative lines than it can possibly pull back...