Word: wallach
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...some plays had fuel gauges attached to them, their needles would indicate half full. The full half of Staircase, which opened on Broadway last week, contains uncompromisingly fine acting by the two-man cast, Eli Wallach and Milo O'Shea, and a decent quota of amusing though not wildly funny lines. The empty half consists of scanty action, no character development, and a drowsy repetitiveness that comes from distending a potentially compact one-acter into a full-length play. The comedy concerns two aging homosexual barbers and is unlikely to offend any one, except possibly barbers...
...Charlie (Wallach) is a failed vaudevillian; Harry (O'Shea) was a scoutmaster until his penchant for boys was discovered. On a cheerless Sunday evening in the dismal London suburb of Brixton, they are in their barbershop giving each other the full tonsorial treatment. This Sunday is particularly cheerless, since Charlie has been summoned to trial for "impersonating a female" in a club known as the Adam's Apple, and may face a jail sentence. Since the confrontation never does take place, the play's electricity is static: tingles of apprehension but no real voltage of menace...
...PLAYHOUSE (CBS, 9-11 p.m.). "Dear Friends," written for TV by Reginald Rose, is a contemporary drama of four married couples - Anne Jackson and David Wayne, Rosemary Harris and Pernell Roberts, Patricia Berry and Eli Wallach, and Hope Lange and James Daly...
...Today's Word." But words are about the only things in life Wallach can master. After a particularly agonizing day of put-downs the mailman resolves to abduct and rape the first nubile ("Today's Word") female he chances upon. But instead, after a series of failures worthy of Wily Coyote, he accidentally kidnaps a pushing-40 Long Island housewife in town trying to re-enroll in college...
...Wallach is good; Miss Jackson is good; Bob Dishy is especially good as Miss Jackson's car-pool husband. Director Arthur Hiller uses his camera with some originality, yet keeps it fairly unobtrusive. The film has some originality yet is fairly unobtrusive. --GLENN A. PADNICK