Word: mostel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...PRODUCERS. Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder play two Broadway producers in this disjointed movie, which, in spite of its many faults, occasionally rises to classic comic heights...
...hero, John Morley (Zero Mostel) is, by self-definition, "a flaming faggot." He is also a zany, successful author who has never paid his income tax. The I.R.S. has ferreted out his secret, and Morley has been forced to throw himself on the mercy of tax advisers. His chief consultant, Irving Spaatz (Jules Munshin), is a legal weasel of wizardry inventiveness. Munshin plays the role in droll fashion and is astonishingly agile at working his way through a verbal tax maze of inflated gibberish that includes explanations of convertible debentures, spinoffs, and sale-leaseback arrangements...
...with his eyes, which roll in a fine frenzy as his latest financial coups are related to him by the omnipresent Spaatz. The time inevitably comes to get divorced for tax purposes, and then Morley kills himself-for tax purposes. In a final scene of immense sadness and gravity, Mostel performs the rite of hara-kiri with a pair of garden shears. As Japanese music plays offstage, he achieves a remarkable blend of Oriental serenity and intensity, altogether his most memorable theatrical feat since he turned into a rhinoceros in Eugene lonesco's Rhinoceros...
...PRODUCERS. Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder play two Broadway producers in this disjointed and inconsistent movie, which, in spite of its many faults, occasionally rises to classic comic heights...
...PRODUCERS Wild, ad-lib energy that explodes in a series of sight gags and punch lines makes this saga of two sleazy stage producers (Zero Mostel and Gene...