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There still persists the notion that Hollywood's greatest art forms are the private-eye picture, the screwball comedy and the musical. Judging from the three latest melodic revivals, Funny Girl, Finian's Rainbow and Star, it may be time for the return of Topper and 5am Spade...
...Leaf for the Patron. One striking example is the sort of drama presented by Berman, 26, a kinetic, spade-bearded expatriate from Maine. Devoted to what he calls "the Theater of Eros," he is at work on a six-playlet cycle under the collective title of Kiss My .... He believes that drama should be made accessible to people within their daily living patterns. Accordingly, his latest one-acter, The Nudist Campers Grow and Grow, goes on at Cafe Ambiance at lunch hour. Each patron is given a tree leaf if he cares to join the nude campers. A few have...
...children lie asleep upstairs, his wife is out cuckolding him with a Negro skin-diver, or so he thinks. Harold, in a skull-popping panic, half-dials phones, swigs champagne from a bottle, runs to the door with his scythe and roars out bloody maledictions on "the Goddamn spade frogman." In a performance marvelously sustained at the pitch of brilliance, Jerry Orbach sprays comic vitriol without ever letting the playgoer forget that this man's heart is in a vise of anguish...
...Salesman mulls, then casually breaks off section of door frame. Homeowner reflects, then rips off salesman's shirt. Other salesman blinks, frowns, and throws brick through window. Homeowner throws brick through windshield of salesmen's car. Salesmen attack homeowner's piano with axes, swat vases with spade handles. Homeowner tears off car headlights, doors, gas tank and sets auto ablaze. Salesmen demolish house, dig up lawn, hack down trees and shrubbery...
Tors, whose grey spade beard gives him the look of a dietetic Burl Ives, is known as the "witch doctor" among his friends and as a photographic innovator throughout the movie industry. His stunning underwater camera work for Thunderball won an Oscar last year. And in the past four years he has built his own company's gross from $750,000 to $12 million. About the only mishap Tors has suffered occurred after he had filmed Namu, the Killer Whale. He had made friends with the five-ton mammal by spending all-night vigils floating...