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...terms of image, Oakland never had a chance. Liza Minnelli, Cary Grant and Walter Matthau turned up for the series opener at Dodger Stadium; the Bay Area could counter only with Charlie O, the A's mascot mule. But perhaps the Dodgers misunderstood the A's. Although Oakland's internecine bloodletting is nothing new, and, in fact, usually accompanies their best play, the Dodgers seemed to think that the squab-bung would undermine the A's. "I hope they fight some more," said Dodger Manager Walter Alston...
Jerry Lewis has taken to its pulpit to deliver a sermon on what it means to him to be a Jew. Walter Matthau has charmed his fellow congregants with a rendition of Sholom Aleichem stories. Love Story Author Erich Segal read a poem on forgiveness for Yom Kippur. The site of all this star-powered piety? One of Hollywood's newest in-spots, the Synagogue for the Performing Arts...
...time rabbi, the 400-seat house of worship has been virtually S.R.O. for its monthly services ever since. "They attend with enthusiasm on a monthly basis," says Cutler. "I want to keep it that way." Almost all the synagogue's members are connected with show business. Members-besides Matthau, Lewis and Segal-include Marty Allen, Jack Benny, Milton Berle, Sammy Davis Jr., Monty Hall, Jan Murray and Joan Rivers. Others are unemployed actors or struggling writers...
...redoubtable Walter Matthau is present and well accounted for in the Martin Beck role (though he is unaccountably renamed Jake Martin), and Bruce Dern is expertly exasperated as the inspector's new partner, trying to get the hang of the older man's methods and eccentricities. They give the film what ever humanity and fitful vitality it enjoys...
...Varrick, Matthau preserves a certain feckless, shambling decorum. He dispenses his lines with the wry authority of a bartender adding a twist to a martini. There is also an especially sharp performance by Sheree North, portraying a shady photographer. The movie, overall, is smoothly customized entertainment, but Siegel has a weakness for gratuitous cruelty. A few scenes have a seaminess that goes beyond simple atmospherics. · Jay Cocks