Word: nicely
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Harvard should be able to win close matches at numbers two and three. Bernie Adelsberg will face Eli pretty boy Mike Brooks, a nice stroker with without Adelsberg's power...
...best part of the production is Act III, Bluesette. Sondra Forsyth is wonderfully touching in the title role, as a girl who loses her nice guy lover Bernard, gets seduced by Benito the tough guy, but returns to Bernard when Benito is shot by Babe, his old girl friend. The story line isn't so hot, but the dancing is terrific. Even the chorus--which is usually the weak spot in JDW shows--looked good, especially in dramatic scenes like the entrapment of Bluesette. Ron Porter was his usual tough self, as Benito. Eric Lessinger, as Bernard, was a little...
Borel, who was once IBM manager in Viet Nam, has his eye on the slowly growing network of superhighways in France, which by 1970 will run 700 miles from the north through Paris to Nice. Only 2% of French auto travelers stop at restaurants for meals, as against 60% of Americans, says Borel. The rest prefer to "pique-nique" on the roadside. Borel wants to change all this with a string of Howard Johnson-style restaurants...
...Gert Frobe, as a pig-eyed book seller who peers through inch-thick spectacles and proves to be a barrel of rare old felon in the very first scene. The night is dark; Frobe approaches a woman seated alone on a bus at a rest stop somewhere between Nice and Grasse, drags her into a small park and stabs her. The victim is his wife, and Frobe has such an airtight alibi that the murder case would be swiftly closed except for a rich young stranger (Maurice Ronet), who is interested in uxoricide for its instructional value. Caught between...
Oddly enough, Ronet's wife soon has reason to leave Nice on a bus. He follows her by car, but at the first rest stop she vanishes. Next morning her body is found at the bottom of a ravine. The coincidence of two dead wives materializing at bus stops piques the interest of Inspector Robert Hossein, a sadist who practices police brutality with chilling Gallic esprit. Soon accusations and counteraccusations begin to ricochet off the walls. Having committed a fairly perfect crime at the outset, Frobe takes murderous pride in his achievement. Though Ronet is guilty only of intent...