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...with melancholy. He can throw himself on a chair as limply as a discarded bath towel and rise from it with the agitated wiriness of a berserk coat hanger. Perhaps all he needs to be truly discovered is to have Neil Simon see the show, as he did Jimmy Coco's, and then build a surefire comedy around...
...title of a film on the patriarch's life. It was the first movie that Ben-Gurion, 83, had ever sat all the way through. Said he: "It's almost like it was." ··· If Katharine Hepburn could make it in Coco, why not Lauren Bacall in Applause? So the voice coaches are hard at work, and Bogart's widow will open next April as the song-and-dance star of a new musical. The hoofing will be easier: Bacall misspent 13 years studying to be a ballerina...
Next came Next, a play written for him by his friend Terrence McNally. Elaine May directed Coco in a straw-hat production, admired it and him, and brought both to New York. Who should see it in New York but Neil Simon, with one act of Lovers already written. After he saw Coco, Simon wrote the other two acts with him in mind...
Overnight Success. Luck? Talent? Both-as well as patience. "What other business in the world would you be in for over two decades and not even have a watch to show for it?" Coco asks. "Do I consider myself a success? Yes. Yes. I'm a huge, tremendous, enormous success. In fact, I may start a whole new Fat Man trend." For Coco, newfound success manifests itself in such niceties as a chauffeured limousine and the three-quarters of a million-dollar advance sale for Lovers. He also has a major role in Otto Preminger's Tell...
...block, he says-Terrence McNally, Paddy Chayefsky, Robert Drivas, the actor, and Playwright Israel Horowitz. "We get together once a week to play poker. I wouldn't want to live anywhere else." Which sounds about as Barney Cashman as a guy can get and still be James Coco...