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...movie's other characters are fairly inconsequential. Paul Dooley plays Kurt the lawyer in a nothing performance, while Norman Fell, last seen as the least-appealing character of the even less-appealing TV sitcom Three's Company, remains solvent in the role of the doctor. Mike Kellin, however, in the most minor of minor parts, does provide a few laughs. In one of Peters' shining moments, Kellin plays a Manhattan tour captain who's got an ailment for every part of his body and a hospital in New York for every operation. Steinberg's influence is definitely felt here...
...garrulous old Jewish men, played with great sensitivity by Mike Kellin and Michael Egan, sit on a bench facing Lake Michigan and talk like lobotomized Talmudic scholars about the habits of ducks and other subjects of which they know virtually nothing yet speculate about with endless comic invention. What emerges is a vivid sense of their friendship, the fear of solitude, the inexorable toll of expiring lives...
...time for a change. Larry Lapinsky (Lenny Baker), 22 and just finished school, pulls up stakes. He shakes hands with Dad (Mike Kellin), kisses a resentful, concerned Mom (Shelley Winters) and leaves their small Brooklyn apartment for even smaller and certainly colder quarters in Greenwich Village. Larry wants to be an actor, and his departure is his first full step into la vie bohème. He dares not put on his beret, however, until he is safely on the subway...
George Gobel and Mike Kellin play two men who thought they couldn't live with their wives-until they tried living with each other as a very Odd Couple...
Only slightly less decorous characters are the boys of the Palace Flop-house, the Doc's friends and Fauna's customers. Their routines, especially the Bum's Opera, provide the best humor of the evening. Even with large numbers on stage the dancing is handled neatly, and Mike Kellin ("Hazel") and G. D. Wallace (Mac) both fit the pattern well with their clever patter...