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THIRTY SUMMERS AGO, the owner of a Jewish resort in the Catskills hired a skinny, crazy kid named Mel to amuse the middle-aged couples lounging around the swimming pool. That proprietor could hardly have known it, but in hiring that kid he unleashed a comic force of staggering proportions upon the Borscht Belt and eventually, the rest of the world. Mel Brooks was plainly crazy. He would do anything to get a laugh, and while his written gags frequently bore the stamp of genius, he often resorted to simply slapstick or "dirty" words. Either way, audiences loved...
...PLOT REVOLVES around Donny Dubrow, the proprietor of the resale ship, seemingly a one-time street punk now in his late 20s, eking out a marginal existence. Donny spends the opening minutes of the play expounding his philosophy of life and business to Bobby, a nervous, denim-clad teenager who serves as Donny's sometime-assistant and partner in petty crime. Donny's theory is somewhat simplistic, summarized in the phrase "Action talks and bullshit walks." The point of this diatribe seems to be that everyone must look out for themselves. Stuart Burney's Donny seems painfully aware of this...
...minuscule staff from a bungalow in Burbank known locally as the Taco Bell because of its resemblance to the fast-food joints. "If I've got a six-pack under my arm, a few pieces of paper and a couple of pencils, I'm in business," says the frugal proprietor...
...euphoria, one Israeli correspondent even managed to get an interview with Mrs. Sadat. But for Shabtai Tal, Israeli correspondent for the West German magazine Stern, his most moving moment may have come during dinner with another Israeli at a restaurant near the pyramids. When the proprietor discovered the diners' identities, the restaurant's small band immediately struck up the stirring strains of Hava Nagila, the popular Israeli folk song. Said Tal.later: "Can you imagine what it was like for me to hear that song played in Egypt? It was like a dream." Moving about the capital, other Israelis...
...Pond Gap, W.Va., a miner's wife walked into the general store, passed the potbellied, coal-burning stove and went to the back, where she opened a nervous conversation with Proprietor Virgil Huddleston. Finally, she got to the point. Her mother-in-law was coughing up blood and needed to go to the hospital, but the family could not afford to send her. Would Huddleston advance her a loan? He dug $50 out of his pocket. "As long as I've got it," he said, "I'm happy to help...