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Although Zero Mostel used to quip that he banked his money in his art books filed under Monet, art is no joke to the comic actor. A painter for 40 years, Zero had his first one-man show of more than 60 recent paintings and collages in Manhattan. "Let the paintings speak for themselves," he declared. And so they do, but in the accents of modern masters like Dubuffet, Klee and Miró. Zero's authentic voice can best be savored these days as he cavorts in a national touring company production of A Funny Thing Happened...
...Iceman Cometh in Mobile, Ala.? In one of the most unusual and ambitious movie ventures in decades, the American Film Theater has packed up an unprecedented trunkful of talents -among them Directors John Frankenheimer, Tony Richardson and Peter Hall, Actors Alan Bates, Stacy Keach and Zero Mostel-and this fall will hit the road bringing classics of modern drama to audiences in more than 500 theaters across the U.S. and Canada-on film...
...Producers. Crazy Zero Mostel comedy about a con man who wants to produce a Broadway flop, and finds one--called "Springtime for Hitler"--that seems to fit the bill...
...Zero Mostel's fault...
...film The Producers, he played a zany impresario dedicated to staging a Broadway musical called Springtime for Hitler, a rococo recounting of the good old days in the Thousand Year Reich. Against all expectations, Mostel's musical was a smash -which turns out to have been prophetic. In the entertainment world nowadays, Hitler's springtime does indeed seem to have arrived...