Word: mosteller
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Grant-in-Aid's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum in early November. Last year's Grant-in-Aid musicals, George M! and Godspell both received top-notch notices, so A Funny Thing... might be worth checking out. But if you want to see Zero Mostel, go into Boston instead--he'll be starring in a "new" version of Fiddler on the Roof, which is stopping here on its way to Broadway...
...Producers. Mel Brook's first feature, and an absolute must. Flawed by an overly sentimental ending, but the basic premise is golden--a Broadway producer on the skids (Zero Mostel) figures out that he can make more money on a flop than he can on a hit. He searches for the worst play ever written, and finds "Springtime for Hitler," a drama about Adolph and Eva at Berchtesgarten by a crazed ex-Nazi living in the Village. Mostel is brilliant--wooing funds from adoring septuagenarians, manipulating his timid bookkeeper (Gene Wilder) into compliance with his scheme...
...suite. What follows is a kind of Feydeau farce with one bedroom door. The scene has been directed with dazzling adroitness by Gene Saks, and Jack Weston's portray al of a human pachyderm in direst panic would bring tears of joy to the eyes of Zero Mostel...
...general in retirement and an admiral in mothballs," notes Actor Peter Ustinov. The "we" are the speaker and Zero Mostel, stars of an ABC-TV special. The May 18 program of four original plays, all directed by Ustinov, includes a Neil Simon sketch titled A Quiet War. In it, Mostel and friend play a couple of old Russian "Sunshine Boys" who get together every Tuesday for an argument. "We pick a different subject every week. This time it's food," says the actor-director. "We're deciding what the perfect lunch is." Sounds like a toothsome assignment...
...Zero Mostel, who grew up in a small, overcrowded tenement apartment, recalls that "the alliance gave me a new life-I had never seen such big rooms before...