Word: stand-in
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...that he has got to know 2,000 of them, he says: "I hate them. They're cold, slimy, and they pee all over you." Ray Milland knew he disliked them from the beginning. "I'm not touching one damned frog," he told Edwards, who got a stand-in for the death scene...
...were more contemporary accents drowned out. The 30-year-old Guitarist John McLaughlin led his Mahavishnu Orchestra through a shattering set of jazz-rock at Carnegie Hall. Trumpeter Freddie Hubbard turned in a fiery performance as a stand-in for Miles Davis. And the "Connoisseur Concerts" that Wein booked into Carnegie Hall presented such acquired tastes as the abstract expressionism of Pianist Cecil Taylor. In all, there was enough youth and promise on stage -and in the audiences-to make the festival a meeting ground not only of the past and present, but of the past and future as well...
...that Cornelia Wallace herself would make the perfect stand-in if George's convalescence will not permit him to get around (see box). It would hardly be a novel solution for Wallace, who ran his first wife Lurleen for Governor of Alabama when he ran into a state constitutional snag about succeeding himself...
...detail is brilliantly marshaled, but the Dreiser hero implausibly making good-the stand-in for Middle America-is hardly present. Where is the incredible personification of passion and blandness, the slicked-down, good-posture public figure who is as careful with a trouser crease as he is careless with an innuendo? Where is the collector of Lawrence Welk records, the doter on Allen Drury novels...
Michael York is the type of actor who has to overcome his conventional good looks before he can begin to make an actor's claims on your attention. As Brian Roberts, the Isherwood stand-in, a Cambridge graduate student who seems constantly in danger of prematurely becoming an English Don. York offers a soft-spoken, understated performance that appears deceptively serene in its controlled use of nuance and shading. In contrast, Joel Grey's shtick has picked up an added touch of the grotesque along the way. There are moments when it loses some of its original spontaneity--Grey...