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...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...
Woody Allen and Zero Mostel playing it straight? Director Martin Ritt (Sounder, Hud) has unsmilingly cast the two in Columbia Pictures' The Front, a drama about Hollywood blacklisting in the '50s. For Mostel it's all bitter experience, for he was interrogated by the House Un-American Activities Committee in 1955 and scorned by movie producers for a decade. For Allen, playing a bookie who lets a blacklisted writer use his name, drama is all new, and he claims to be, as usual, nervous. "I can't guarantee the outcome," he says...
...Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum. One night when Zero Mostel hosted the Cavett show, he ran up and kissed the television camera lens, molested Paula Prentiss and danced with several old women in the audience. No time watching Zero could ever be called wasted--he is our funniest actor, and when he is harnessed properly, one of our best. This Richard Lester movie comes close to using him correctly, and besides, it has three other extremely talented comedians working for it: Phil Silvers, Jack Gilford and a battered depleted Buster Keaton. It never gets into...
...year? this decade?) and I plan to catch if it probably bears less resemblance to Norman Jewison's. Fiddler on the Roof than does Jesus Christ Superstar (also by Jewison, or Christianson as they called him on the Fiddler set) which has a kicked-out-jams performance by Josh Mostel, son of the Emperor Zero...