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Directed by RICHARD LESTER...
Like Moreno, almost everyone in the cast is a veteran of the original Broad way production. Richard Lester, who seems to work almost as fast as Googie Gomez talks (his last movie, Robin and Marian, was released in March), keeps the proceedings right on his customary sardonic course. Lester obeys the first law of this kind of farce, bestowing his sidelong misanthropy equally on straight characters and gays...
What the play cannot retain as political allegory it can make up in sheer drama, but this possibility is diluted by Lester Thompson Jr.'s overly symbolic direction and the general inadequacy of the actors. Thompson sets the living room in the middle of a basketball court, a heavyhanded attempt to indicate omnipresent memories of glories past. As the audience enters, a young man is shooting baskets, and we find out later that he is supposed to represent the spirit of Martin, the fifth player who never comes to the reunions. He stays there through the beginning of the play...
Chip Woods was more elusive. Two days after the kidnaping, he flew into Vancouver, Canada, with a passport identifying him as "Ralph Lester Snider"-the name, it turned out, of a six-year-old child from Santa Clara county who was killed in an auto accident in 1960. Somehow the FBI learned that Woods was going to pick up a package at the general delivery window in a Vancouver post office on July 29. When he arrived, the Royal Canadian Mounted Police were waiting...
Such industry would probably not sit well were it not for Powell's strategic use of humor. When a former Georgia Governor called a press conference to denounce Carter, Powell countered, "Being called a liar by Lester Maddox is like being called ugly by a frog." When not home in Atlanta with his wife and nine-year-old daughter, Powell spends his free hours drinking (beer or bourbon) with reporters. Says Political Writer Richard Reeves: "Jody is genuinely good company. Carter...