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...middle of his brilliant and enigmatic second novel, James Park Sloan invents the "subway syndrome." Its victims are those overeducated drunks encountered in the subways late at night, frantically spitting out manic monologues at the tile walls. Ex-lawyers, ex-teachers, even ex-psychiatrists (who knows?), these gray-stubbled ruins with burning eyes represent, Sloan suggests, "the human psyche driven underground ... by a sense of helplessness in the face of an overwhelming body of human knowledge, subtly divided and incomprehensible to any single man." They don't know-they can't know-The Answer, and that knowledge...
...performances he seemed repeatedly to be taking refuge in what he felt safest doing-a manic, tortured intensity. His first major movie role, as a junkie in last year's The Panic in Needle Park, was an impressive debut that seemed, nevertheless, predictable to those who had seen his theater work. The Godfather changed all that...
...possesses a knowing intelligence in the character of its Master of Ceremonies--as played by Joel Grey, a wicked little man who as readily agrees to pinch-hit as a chorus girl in drag as he assumes the role of death's subaltern on earth, doing both with a manic enthusiasm that belongs only to the dying and damned. With Grey's M.C. on hand, the conventional half of Cabaret was never even in the running...
...riches and virtue was quite like J. Pierpont Morgan's. He collected nearly every imaginable kind of art object, from panel paintings to antique cameos, from medallions to tapestries, and even a unicorn's horn given to him by the Pope. The result was a triumph of manic connoisseurship-the greatest private collection in Europe...
...play of the last ten years... You couldn't see the play for all the coming and going." Scott has known the author, Arthur Kopit '59, since their graduate days, although he has not talked to Kopit recently about this production. The play shows touches of the kind of manic wit Kopit displayed in his undergraduate play, Oh Dad, Poor Dad, etc., and also provides the director with some chance for pyrotechnics. Scott's touch should be evident all over this production...