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...repealed. His proposal is on the agenda for Cabinet action, but government watchers predict that if any decision is taken, it will be to keep the laws. "If Kenan got $1,400 of public money for his play, then I have a right to censor it," says Knesset Member Mordecai Surkiss, who heads the parliamentary committee that deals with censorship...
Doris Lessing (Banfam) St. Urbain 's Horseman by Mordecai...
...URBAIN'S HORSEMAN by Mordecai Richler. 467 pages. Knopf...
...fellow actors often express admiration for Scott because he has the courage to risk professional failures. His characterization of Mordecai Jones, the aging but still canny Flim-Flam Man, was too strongly derivative of W.C. Fields, and his performance as Antony in Antony and Cleopatra was a self-proclaimed disaster. "I should have played Cleopatra," he says; Antony is one of the few roles beyond his ambition. "The great danger with most actors," he says, "is that the more successful they become, the less risk they will take with their careers. They forget why they became actors in the first...
COCKSURE, by Mordecai Richler. Few sacred cows are left contented in this savage farce about mass culture and intellectual pretense, which turns on the proposition that the minority victimizes the majority...