Word: walk-on
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...help but wonder, though, if Plunkett's respect for Namath isn't also laced with a deep-seated desire to be as "gutsy" or flashy as the charismatic Broadway Joe--off the field as well as on. Plunkett's walk-on role in the newly released movie, Airport 1975, may be a step in that direction--he brashly tells a stewardess that the Pats will go "all the way" this season...
Retiring New York City Mayor John V. Lindsay, 52, has done well by Broadway in charity-benefit walk-on roles. Could Broadway have done without him? No, was the unanimous opinion of the 400 show-biz folk who crowded into a Manhattan restaurant last week to thank Lindsay for his support of their profession during his eight-year administration. Among the grateful: Monique Van Vooren, Joan Fontaine, Christopher Plummer, Stephen Sondheim, Paul Lynde, Rita Moreno and Composer Richard Rodgers. Paying waggish tribute to Lindsay's consistency, Peter Boyle said: "He's been a very good mayor...
...moment the stern, noble mien of the aged Sigmund Freud will appear as he walks about the stage on his wife's arm in supportive dignity; the next moment, 32 dancing ostriches; and the next, Wilson's 88-year-old grandmother from Waco, Texas, in a walk-on, talk-on bit. Playwright or not - chances are not - Robert Wilson is a master showman magically deploying theatrical effects...
Junior guard Joe Carballeira, a transfer from Fordham, and defensive standout Doug Downey, a "walk-on" player last year, round out the Holy Cross quintet...
...admission, too impatient with others. By way of a compliment, Director Peter Hall once told her that in her early days as an actress she was the rudest walk-on he had ever seen. "I am lacking in charity a bit," she admits. "I'm told I'm too independent. It's a fault when you can't say 'Help!' but all I can do is retire and get solitary and work things out for myself." On such occasions, Diana will sometimes slip away to an old finca she bought some years...