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NOBODY LOVES AN ALBATROSS, by Ronald Alexander. An engaging heel of a writer-producer who even bounces jokes off his twelve-year-old daughter, Robert Preston impersonates a TV "genius" whose career is a castle of balloons-when one is popped, the escaping hot air just fills another...
NOBODY LOVES AN ALBATROSS, by Ronald Alexander, is a cynical, funny, abrasive comedy about the frauds who cultivate the TV wasteland for the cash crop. As the biggest phony of them all, Robert Preston is full of roguish charm and as magnetic...
...Broadway NOBODY LOVES AN ALBATROSS, by Ronald Alexander, is a cynical, funny, abrasive comedy about the frauds who cultivate the TV wasteland for the cash crop. As the biggest phony of them all, Robert Preston is full of roguish charm, and as magnetic...
Played with prancing, gleeful guile by Robert Preston, the role of Nat Bentley is as magnetic as sin. Playwright Ronald Alexander has surrounded him with zany astrologers of the marketplace-hack writers, foxy talent agents, dubbed-in laugh effects men-who cast horoscopes under the sign of the dollar to see if the public will prefer the TV story of a myna bird that refuses to talk or a chimpanzee that plays Lady Macbeth. The dialogue is more quippish than witty, but the hip mass-media-men-at-work lingo scatters the laughs over an occasional drab patch of script...
Nobody Loves an Albatross fails as a moral lesson. Preston's remains a countryish buffoon from beginning to end; his plight never forces the audience to examine the necessity for honesty. The pathos raises no ethical questions; it simply dampens the already soggy humor...