Word: rhino
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...Rhino! is a brilliantly scenic, instructive, timely and entertaining tale of African adventure. The hero (Robert Gulp) is a zoologist who dedicates his skills to the preservation of African wildlife; the villain (Harry Guardino) is a poacher who devotes his energies to their annihilation. Told that the villain is an excellent guide, the hero in all innocence hires him to hunt down a pair of rare white rhinos and transport them to a game preserve, where they may safely multiply. The villain, of course, secretly intends to make off with the hero's pharmic rifle, a device that fires...
Unless I can meet at least some of these aspirations, my head will roll just as surely as the tickbird follows the rhino...
...tickbird still follows the rhino, and to the extent that Africa's new leadership has not met Africa's aspirations, or avoided the pitfalls left by its colonial past, heads have been rolling. The headlines of the past two months testify that Africa is still a continent of chaos and contradiction. Since the year began, crises have erupted at a rate of one a week, and it seems that in the alphabet of independent Africa, A is for anarchy, B is for bedlam, and C is for coup...
...second act, everyone is turning into a rhinoceros. Jean (Herbert Voland) changes before Berenger's eyes, at first thinking he's sick, then talking the part of a rhino compassionately: "We should go back to nature. We need primeval integrity in this world!" Voland's blustering temper and bull-like charges highlight the production; one expects him to attack the audience, but he runs off to join the other pachyderms instead...
Neat as it is, the show would be eminently missable except for one thing: Rooney. Twenty years of anticlimax have strung hard lines across the famous baby face. With his porky jowls and rathskeller neck and jutting nose. Rooney at 38 resembles an enraged pygmy rhino, a pint-pot Wallace Beery. His talent resembles Beery's, too, in its sock-simple vulgarity, its feisty fecundity. He is one of the great hams of the age, and life seems to have smoked him ripe...