Word: orbach
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...just such a starveling kitten of a comedy. The title is classified-ad shorthand for an apartment with a river view. The locale is Manhattan. Inspecting the rent-controlled flat are two strangers, Anne (Jane Alexander) and Paul (Jerry Orbach), both married, but with their respective spouses otherwise occupied. A missing doorknob effectively locks them in together...
Decency of this sort may be praiseworthy in real life, but it is slim fodder for a sexual comedy. In admirably well-keyed performances, Orbach and Alexander are adept at conveying the festering guilt of two fundamentally honorable people who are good at chatting, bad at cheating...
...introduced Joey Gallo (and hundreds of others) to authors like Camus and Sartre when I was education supervisor at Attica state prison. Like Joan Hackett and Jerry Orbach I too can believe that "something happened to him" when he "read and studied." For lack of a better term we called it part of the "rehabilitation" program...
...final months of life, Mobster Joey Gallo developed an unusual friendship with Actor Jerry Orbach and his wife, Writer Maria Curro. Orbach had played a role patterned in part after Gallo's life in the movie version of Jimmy Breslin's The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight. Out of the blue, the Orbachs got a call from Gallo, who wanted to meet his screen counterpart. The three saw each other almost daily after that. The Orbachs told TIME correspondent James Willwerth how they felt about Gallo. It is a picture that his rivals-and victims-would...
...Joey compressed time with us because he knew in the back of his head that he might not have much time, that he could go at any minute," says Jerry Orbach. "Consequently, a minute spent talking to Joey was like an hour spent with someone else. There was no 'how's the weather?' or small talk. He was somebody who had to catch a train...