Word: miscasts
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...scorn. As Susskind's hair began to thin and his pockets bulged, his image as TV's angry young rebel became less convincing, but his influence still pervaded the industry, and his Open End consistently demonstrated that conversation, if intelligent, can be entertaining. Jackie Gleason was miserably miscast as the M.C. of an ill-fated (one performance) panel show, You're in the Picture, and Milton Berle was relegated to narrating Jackpot Bowling. The networks-which billed some 400 shows as "specials" in 1959-60-had considerably fewer than that this year, and with a few notable...
...been not-very-gracefully beefed up. Instead of a characterization, Mr. Skulnik offers Mr. Skulnik. He understandably refuses to give up the accent and mannerisms which have served him so well over the years (probably he is unable to give them up); but as a result, he is wildly miscast as a gentile, and out of key not only with La Belle Helene, but even with the bastardized Helen of Troy. Worse yet, he debases his authentic and endearing talent by screaming and carrying on. He is sometimes funny, but the attempt to use his Jewishness as a running...
...effect. It pounds too hard at times, and stretches things out too long. And for all its speeches and screams, it does not deeply plumb its moral issue or its chief actors, particularly the key figure of the judge advocate (for which George C. Scott, however brilliant, seems miscast). And by mixing dialectics with histrionics to pose a moral inquiry, The Andersonville Trial disconcertingly forfeits much of the realistic and psychological fascination of a trial. About it all there is too much sense of external pressure, of the author as both preacher and showman...