Word: zeros
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Before long, Allen is fronting for more than one talented writer. Then come the investigators. The witch-hunters just cannot believe that a scriptwriter this skillful has not committed an investigatable offense. Along the way Allen becomes involved with a comic named Hecky Brown (Zero Mostel), whose career is destroyed by the witch-hunters and who then destroys himself. Allen's consciousness (and his conscience) have been steadily expanding. In the end, he heroically-and funnily -defies the congressional committee that tries to pry from him at least a few suspect names...
Blacklist Victims. The Front's scriptwriter, its director and one star (Zero Mostel) were themselves victims of the blacklist. Despite many virtues, however, the picture seems thin and schematic. Part of the problem lies in the fact that many of the incidents used in the story are taken directly from history. Whether they seem familiar or not, they are never as fully developed as they might have been in a documentary film, nor as fully digested as they should have been by any first-class dramatist. An even more serious flaw, however, is the fact that not a single...
...Grant-in-Aid's A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum in early November. Last year's Grant-in-Aid musicals, George M! and Godspell both received top-notch notices, so A Funny Thing... might be worth checking out. But if you want to see Zero Mostel, go into Boston instead--he'll be starring in a "new" version of Fiddler on the Roof, which is stopping here on its way to Broadway...
Historically, the U.A.W. has declined to call industry-wide strikes, preferring instead to zero in on a so-called target company-this year, Ford. The union's logic: the target company, fearing a loss of business to the competition if it alone was struck, would do its best to meet labor's demands. Talks began in July, and Ford, as is the custom, presented a skimpy mettle-testing counteroffer to the U.A.W.'s platform. No problem so far; a walkout still seemed remote...
While inflation has been tamped to just over 6%, unemployment is still high (7.2%), and new economic problems loom. The rate of new direct foreign investment in Canada has dropped almost to zero. With its current account deficit now over $5 billion, the country may also be approaching a balance of payments crisis...