Word: zorba
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...detective follows her on his motor scooter from double-feature horror films to the dolphin pond in Windsor Park, he becomes infatuated. He is something of a pixy himself, a regular Zorba the Dick. He consumes huge quantities of yogurt, munches on endless macaroons, and makes a lot of funny faces. Now it is the wife who is unaccountably enchanted...
Cabaret was a musical with both intelligence and style and what more could a body want. Its importance was made all the clearer when it spawned such other Hal Prince efforts as Zorba, where the commentator's role was taken over by the musical's entire ensemble: Company, which the cane-stomping choreography of a number like Cabaret's "Wilkommen" reappears in "Side by Side" and "What Would We Do Without You?"; and Follies, in whose case Cabaret's final ghost-ridden moments give way to a whole production hung halfway between the present and the past...
...Zorba the Greek, Anthony Quinn at his finest. 7:30, Feb. 17. Chan...
Question of Camp. The top professional honors of the evening go to Bobby Van, who dances like an Anglo-Saxon Zorba, and Helen Gallagher, the girl who plays his wife. As she acts and sings ("Where-Has-My-Hubby-Gone" Blues), a smolderingly authentic Fitzgerald heroine comes alive on the stage. A special medal should be struck for Patsy Kelly as a comic howitzer of a maid with hilarious delayed-fuse timing...
FLAP serves notice that the plight of the American Indian has reached the exploitation stage. As Flapping Eagle, a proud ex-Army sergeant on an Arizona reservation, Anthony Quinn boldly plays Zorba the drunk redskin. Abetted by a wispy intellectual with the decidedly un-militant name of Eleven Snowflake (Tony Bill) and a bleary stereotype called Lobo (Claude Akins), Flapping Eagle decides to foment a three-brave revolution against white civilization. Guess who dies (but whose spirit lives...