Word: seenes
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Some of my friends, having seen the photograph in TIME, have expressed surprise that I would lend my work to such a play. I would like to make it clear that I had nothing to do with this production of MacBird...
Kaplan too owns the stage. In everything I have seen him do before this show he has played the Flatbush gonif, the king of the muzuzahed one-liners. In Flea he acts. Eyes, face, tummy--everything is part of the comic arsenal. Kaplan's timing and moves are astonishing. He never walks but rather changes from shuffle to trudge to leap to glide. And like the true master of high comedy he never bruises a line or gesture by offering it up before the audience is ready...
...Dewey, Willkie, Ike and Nixon, but supported Lyndon Johnson in 1964, putting the Star on the side of a Democratic presidential candidate for the first time in 80 years, then retired because of poor health and predicted, "I'll have the biggest damn funeral Kansas City has ever seen. They'll all show up to be sure the old bastard is dead"; of heart disease; in Kansas City...
...seen government hamlet chiefs murdered by Viet Cong guerrillas led by their own nephews. It breaks your heart to see Vietnamese families killing each other like that...
...that a first film should be influenced, and Hunter (who knows his Hitchcock and Welles very well) has had the wit to pick good models. I wonder, though, whether his larger view of human relationships and actions hasn't been over-determined by the number of movies he's seen. Is it intentional that the triangle of Cliffie, hero, and ellusive temptress so closely parallels the triangle in Vertigo? I suppose it is, but I can't help preferring the Hunter who very logically (and rather sweetly) sets the recently de-zombied roommate to opening a pile of mail which...