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...through the seven weeks in Philadelphia and Boston, they labored to whip Breakfast at Tiffany's into something palatable, but the talents of Playwrights Nunnally Johnson, Abe Burrows and Edward Albee couldn't save the musical. After the fourth dismal preview in Manhattan, Producer David Merrick, 54, flashed a sort of risus sardonicus and announced: "Rather than subject the drama critics and the theatergoing public to an excruciatingly boring evening, I have decided to close the show. It's my Bay of Pigs." And this particular sow's ear will cost Merrick...
...Connecticut case, Stewart had a third supporter, Justice William O. Douglas. Will a fourth appear? Justice Abe Fortas, for example, is the very lawyer who won the Gideon decision in one of his great pre-bench coups. As court watchers see it, the silent justices are mainly fearful of the effects of carrying out Gideon's admitted logic. Most misdemeanor cases now take only a few minutes; to require lawyers might inflate them into regular trials. The country has not even begun to provide enough public defenders for accused felons; adding misdemeanor cases might overwhelm...
...majority opinion of the Court, Justice Hugo L. Black argued that the United States Constitution makes no restrictions on how the states choose their governors. Justices William O. Douglas and Abe Fortas, however, in separate dissents from the five-to-four decision, pointed out that turning the election over to the legislature violates the Court's own "one man, one vote" principle. Georgia voters would not enjoy the "equal protection of the laws" guaranteed by the Fourteenth Amendment if the candidate favored by the greater number could be defeated by the candidate of the lesser number...
Holly's difficulties are still farther from solution. Right off, Writers Nunnally Johnson and Sidney Michaels failed to get a-fix on the heroine-played by Mary Tyler Moore (of TV's Dick Van Dyke Show)-so Director Abe Burrows (Cactus Flower) tried a re-adaptation. In Philadelphia, Holly came off as a tough $50-a-shot hooker instead of a sweet $50-a-shot hooker. By the time the show reached Boston, Holly had become a nice young thing who might just shack up with anybody for nothing. Worse, Michael Kidd's choreography was more kitsch...
CACTUS FLOWER is a Gallic sex farce that not only survived the transplant from Paris, but, as deftly tended by Abe Burrows, has thrived as a long-blooming Broadway...