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...next week, television viewers may know those words by heart. Set to an up tempo, the jingle will air nearly every hour during prime time on NBC for eight days. The oldest network is undertaking the most unusual public-service campaign in the history of television-and a major programming gamble. Every series episode will begin with a celebrity introducing the song, which is intended to be a rallying cry against teen-age drug abuse...
...know what they like, Wayne Newton is a paradigm of American entertainment. The Jerry Lewis Labor Day Telethon against Muscular Dystrophy is only 20 minutes old, and Wayne is the first entertainer to take the stage, a position befitting his status as king of Vegas. A nice down-tempo Johnny B. Goode, and then he segues into a classic, the classic maybe. "To dream the impossible dream," his chest swells inside the gold brocade jacket. His face, puffed enough from the good life to fill in any lines, begins to hang with sweat, small perfect beads on his forehead, twinkling...
These are only the bare bones of the plot. The author, who has also been one of the most felicitous movie scenarists of his generation (A Night to Remember, The Cruel Sea), may have developed his unerring tempo from that medium. His labyrinthine plots, however, are uniquely Amblerian. Hero Halliday, who is forced into acting as intermediary between the Ruler, the Pike and NATO intelligence, finally meets the sheik in a house above an abandoned silver mine in Austria. Though the mine is supposed to be a potential treatment center for respiratory diseases, Halliday discovers that the potentate...
...psychiatric guru, Mendel, played in an excruciatingly droll fashion by Chip Zien, a leaky roof is kept over all heads. From the opening number, Four Jews in a Room Bitching, the humor is spikily and spicily urban and ethnic. The actors are spirited, and Director James Lapine's tempo is stopwatch crisp. In astringence and cleverness, Finn is the child of Stephen Sondheim. In the current musical theater, no one could choose a better master or pay an apter tribute...
Spinning as swiftly as a bicycle wheel, Barnet Kellman's direction unerringly maintains the taut tempo of the work. The W.P.A. (Workshop of the Players Art) Theater has brought us, in Wade, a bona fide playwrighting find...