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Jerry Stiller, another actor known primarily for comedy, is equally impressive as the loudmouthed charlatan Dr. Tamkin, who dispenses folk wisdom between gulps of pot roast and watermelon. Joseph Wiseman is a bit too pat as the unfeeling father, but there are finely etched cameos from Katherine Borowitz, Tony Roberts, William Hickey and, particularly, Jo Van Fleet as a dowager who defiantly stares down Tommy while her dog urinates at his feet. (Bellow himself appears in a walk-through as a hotel guest...
...Tommy hustling an irascible old man (Tom Aldredge) across the street before the light changes conveys all that is needed. Trying to squeeze his car into a tight parking space, Tommy huffs mightily as he turns the steering wheel back and forth while his front-seat companion, the indomitable Tamkin, rattles on: a perfect visual metaphor for Tommy's plight. The makers of Seize the Day did not settle for translating words to screen; somebody gave this one some thought...
...good show. In the fall, Julius L. Novick '60 directed a superlative Mikado, much abetted by the performances of David L. Stone '61 and D. Steven Garlick '60. The Gondoliers in the spring could not match it, but the singing of Lila H. Woodruff '60 and Stephen Tamkin added greatly to the over-all enjoyment...
...Hartford, Conn., accused of slapping his wife and locking her up, Norman Tamkin told the judge she had brought it on herself by feeding him a heat-and-serve TV supper, got a rebuttal from Mrs. Tamkin: "He lost the food money playing cards . . . Why, for the first three months of our marriage we didn't even have television...
...combs Spain trying to buy the lost manuscripts of a dead poet. The stories suffer particularly from the fact that the leading characters are usually the dullest people in them. The reader of Seize the Day could do with less of regressive Tommy Wilhelm and more about rascally Dr. Tamkin, whose compelling eye and incessant tongue carry the story bracingly forward whenever he is onstage...