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...first production at the local Jewish center when he was nine. "I never got less than the lead after that," he boasts. By the time he was twelve he was reciting Shakespeare before the bathroom mirror. His dream-then, now and probably for-evermore-was to play Cassius in Julius Caesar. Though the world has made a villain out of Cassius, the leader of the plot to kill Caesar, the scion of political iconoclasts knew that he was really a good fellow. "Cassius was sympathetic to me," he says. "He hated tyranny and he was anti-authoritarian." Also, he adds...
Still suffering from the sulks when shooting ended, he auditioned for Joseph Papp's Lincoln Center production of Julius Caesar. At last he was to be Cassius. "I went home, and for the first time I did homework," he says. "It felt so good to struggle over a part!" Two days into rehearsal, however, Papp canceled the production, and Dreyfuss "just went crazy. For about a year and a half I went berserk, I took drugs, and I started drinking a bottle of cognac...
...empire declined. Sir Joe was sold and Sir Julius the Doctor left too. Even Sir Clyde, whom the scribes had to leave and go to Cleveland. There also sprang up in the land of Jersey a new castle to which the football Giants and the basketball Nets moved. (But perhaps the loss of the Giants was not mourned, for no one liked the owner, cheap King Mara. Besides, the Giants never won anything--they just gave away all the good players...
...DIED. Julius Henry ("Groucho") Marx, 86, doyen of American comedy; of pneumonia; in Los Angeles. A wizard of wisecracks and a prince of puns, Groucho began his nearly seven-decade-long career in vaudeville with his zany brothers Harpo, Chico, Gummo and Zeppo. They reached the pinnacle of Broadway in the mid-1920s and went on to hilarious movies, such as Horse Feathers (1932) and A Night at the Opera (1935), that still enjoy a huge cult following and invariably feature Groucho as an appealing rogue capable of fast-talking his way out of any difficulty. On his radio...
...this genteel anonymity is about to end. Controversy, if not quality, bids fair to make The Public Burning a major publishing event. An excerpt from the novel that ran last fall in American Review alerted readers to its incendiary subject: the June 19, 1953, execution of Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. In Coover's fiction, the convicted atomic bomb spies are transferred from the death house at Sing Sing to a public stage in Times Square for their execution. Word began circulating that several publishers had considered the manuscript and decided not to risk legal repercussions. The question naturally arose...