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...elegant white woman; irrepressibly, she grabs a microphone and begins warbling a song, White Like Me. But before she has finished, all the skin has been stripped away, and in a manic Mahalia Jackson finish she delivers a jolt of straight soul in the most brilliant transformation since Zero Mostel became a rhinoceros...
Great Catherine--Peter O'Toole is wonderful in this movie that goes wildly and badly off track about five minutes after it begins. Jeanne Moreau and Jack Hawkins do what they can to help things along, but Zero Mostel turns in a performance that is too undisciplined, qrotesque and awful to be believed. At the CHERI 3, Dalton St. in Prudential Center...
Great Catherine--Claims to be derived from Bernard Shaw's obscure one-actor, with Jeanne Moreau, Peter O'Toole, Zero Mostel. At the CHERI I Dalton St. in Prudential Center...
...most left-over of the left-overs is Mel Brooks' The Producers, a professionally written, professionally staged, but miserably filmed comedy starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder. In spirit, the picture is happily reminiscent of the Marx Bros., and it has ten minutes of genius-within-genius under the title Springtime for Hitler, a musical about the Third Reich. Here, working on stage, Brooks is at his best as a director, and achieves the very tricks of timing which elude him on film. His lyrics for the show's title song ("Springtime for Hitler and Germany/Winter for Poland and France/We...
...EXCEPTION AND THE RULE, adapted from Brecht by the West Side Story team, Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim. Directed by Jerome Robbins and starring Zero Mostel. Oilmen race across an Asian desert...