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...some plays had fuel gauges attached to them, their needles would indicate half full. The full half of Staircase, which opened on Broadway last week, contains uncompromisingly fine acting by the two-man cast, Eli Wallach and Milo O'Shea, and a decent quota of amusing though not wildly funny lines. The empty half consists of scanty action, no character development, and a drowsy repetitiveness that comes from distending a potentially compact one-acter into a full-length play. The comedy concerns two aging homosexual barbers and is unlikely to offend any one, except possibly barbers...
Charlie (Wallach) is a failed vaudevillian; Harry (O'Shea) was a scoutmaster until his penchant for boys was discovered. On a cheerless Sunday evening in the dismal London suburb of Brixton, they are in their barbershop giving each other the full tonsorial treatment. This Sunday is particularly cheerless, since Charlie has been summoned to trial for "impersonating a female" in a club known as the Adam's Apple, and may face a jail sentence. Since the confrontation never does take place, the play's electricity is static: tingles of apprehension but no real voltage of menace...
...single day's work. That's just what the lads did though, spurning an offer from Promoter Sidney Bernstein, entrepreneur of their 1964 and 1965 trips to the U.S., of $1,000,000 for two same-day performances at New York City's Shea Stadium. It's not that the money doesn't seem evergreen, explained Beatles Flack Tony Barrow, but that the electronics problem makes the boys so blue. "Until they have devised some way of presenting the 1967 sound onstage," Barrow said, "they will not make appearances. Mr. Bernstein might not mind...
Promises, promises. The 20,000 fans who plunked $200,000 into the till at New York's Shea Stadium hardly got the battle they expected. To be sure, Griffith did bloody Nino's nose-by rubbing it with the laces of his gloves. He also speared Benvenuti in the ribs with his shoulders, butted him on the chin and belted him in the kidneys; Nino, who fights without a mouthpiece, retaliated by biting Emile's neck. But the only knockdown came in the 14th round, when Benvenuti collided with Griffith in mid-ring and fell...
...hear his voice speaking the "Ineluctable modality of the visible" interior monologue. When he shuts his eyes our screen goes black until he opens them. Equally well integrated into the film's conventions are certain conspicuous parts of the sound track, as when Leopold Bloom (Milo O'Shea) hears a cuckoo clock chanting "Cuckold! Cuckold! Cuckold!" or some barnyard noises Bloom hears in a tavern, when a greasy slab of meat falls from the gob of a man sitting near...