Word: mostel
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum was one of the hottest burlesque shows that ever hit Broadway. It had a grossly libidinous libretto snippeted out of the plays of Plautus, and lickerish leerics that read like Pompeian graffiti. Above all, it had a huge round Zero named Mostel, who wore a fingertip tunic the size of a pup tent and went tippety-skipping about the stage like a bull walrus in drag...
What matters more is that the Lester manner conflicts with the Mostel style. Caught up in the director's web of whimsies, this most projectively physiological of comedians subsides like an elephant conquered by cobwebs. Not once is Hero Zero permitted to charge the camera, as he charged his Broadway audiences, with the massive animal aggression that is the essence of his comedy and the soul of slapstick...
Lillian Ross is a girl-about-town. She frequents the Village, Central Park, the hairdresser's and other people's apartments. Her tastes in celebrities range from the late Dag Hammarskjold to Zero Mostel to Miss Teen-Age America to Lassie (her favorite television star). What makes Miss Ross different from thousands of other girls-about-town is that she writes about it. With deftness, lucidity, and wit. In Talk Stories, a collection of sixty "Talk of the Town" pieces from the New Yorker. Miss Ross has further established her reputation as a reporter sans rival and shows another side...
CAROL + 2 (CBS, 8:30-9:30 p.m.). "Carol" = Burnett and "2" = Lucille Ball + Zero Mostel. With that O in there, the sum should be impressive...
Panning, of course, is by far the easier of the critic's two tasks. But when Gottfried finds something to praise, he can be almost lyrical in his delight. About last season's Fiddler on the Roof, he wrote: "To see Zero Mostel dance is to see an angel in underwear. There is nobody else in the world who can shake a belly slowly...