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...Rosh Hashanah, the beginning of the New Year-by Jewish reckoning the 5,732nd since the creation of the world-and the congregation had been crowding into Manhattan's new Lincoln Square Synagogue since shortly after sunrise. Now Rabbi Steven Riskin and the cantor huddled together. "Tekiah," intoned the rabbi softly, using the Hebrew command for a long blast on the shofar. The cantor tensed his cheeks and raised the ram's horn to sound the melancholy note, the first of a hundred blasts that began the High Holy Days...
...agreement to outrage. "We had such a nice family-like congregation here," laments one congregant. "Now this." Siegel's critics among his fellow rabbis are not so much disturbed by his portrait of a vacuous congregation as his own passive performance. "A rabbi," argues young Orthodox Rabbi Steven Riskin of Manhattan, "is foremost the educator of his community. He must impart values and represent them in his own life." Yet Siegel confesses that he "doesn't know" why he is a rabbi: he chooses to stay one because, among other things, "I have no place else...
Died. Robert Riskin, 58, top screenwriter, who teamed with Director Frank Capra (1931-38) to turn out Lost Horizon, Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, You Can't Take It with You, winner of an Academy Award in 1934 for It Happened One Night, husband of oldtime Cinemactress Fay Wray; after being partially paralyzed from a stroke since 1950; in Woodland Hills, Calif...
Neither of the stars seems comfortable dispensing this nonsense, though many a Technicolored close-up confirms that Actress Young, 38, is one of the most rewardingly well-preserved sights in Hollywood. But what makes Half Angel especially disappointing is that it was written by Scripter Robert Riskin, whose horseplay with half-baked abnormal psychology is a sad comedown from such past comic successes as It Happened One Night and Mister...
...almost too good to be true-of the most elusive man the U.S. Secret Service ever tried to catch: a lovable old counterfeiter who struck off amateurish one-dollar bills. St. Clair McKelway told the story in three New Yorker articles last year. Scripter Robert (It Happened One Night) Riskin retells it with just enough respect for the flavorsome facts and just the right knack of working them into warm, humorous fiction...