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...quipped at an All-Stars luncheon at the White House. "I asked what Edmonton is getting in return, and they told me two first-round picks and the state of Texas.") Gretzky doesn't even mind jumping up on Canadian talk shows and joining his girlfriend, Singer Vickie Moss, 20, in a squeaky rendition of Mama, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Play Hockey. Still, it's embarrassing...
...been drawn by Maurice Sendak for the occasion, and he can suggest an entire shtetl with a shrug. But, save for the narrator (Joe Silver), he is supported by performers who believe that Yiddishkeit is suggested by saying already every two minutes. Nor is he aided by Director Milton Moss's attempts to create crowd scenes by bunching his cast in clumps. Doubtless the profit motive made the producers wheel a pushcart show to the Broadway stage. They might have recalled another Yiddish proverb: The longest road is the one that leads to the pocket. -By Stefan Kanfer
Duplicating the chronologically backward structure of the George S. Kaufman and Moss Hart 1934 play of the same title, Merrily begins with the commencement address to the Class of '80 at Lake Forest Academy. The school's most famous graduate, a hugely successful composer and film producer, Franklin Shepard (Jim Walton) prates of the need to compromise in order to get ahead. But when the musical ends, and Franklin is the valedictorian of 1955, he gives a ringing, idealistic peroration. In tracking back over the quarter-century, we watch this singularly unappealing hero being cruelly false...
...ride cross-country with these two bikers, donning his old high school football helmet, and seeing the world for the first time through red eyes. Nicholson got the role as a fluke because Rip Torn dropped out; he finally got a break, after having lost the part of C.W. Moss in Bonnie and Clyde because he looked too much like star Warren Beauty. What made Hansen so effective (and earned Nicholson an Oscar nomination) was his innocence and honest dreaming, contrasted with the others. When the two hippies get blown away at the end, sure, you hate the hicks...
Woollcott's best-remembered enterprise was the founding of the Algonquin Round Table, a grand gathering of playwrights, critics, writers and comics. Dorothy Parker, George S. Kaufman, Robert Benchley were all there; the Marx Brothers dropped by occasionally. Sherwood Anderson and Moss Hart were frequently in attendance. Knowing that anything witty would be printed, repeated and quoted, Woolcott directed the conversation toward the four topics that interested him: "Theater, friends, murder and anything else that interests me." The Round Table flourished. Only the flight of New York's sharpest tongues to Hollywood forced it to disband in the late 1930s...