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Instead of drawing out the comic possibilities of this lovely scenario, the BSC actors tend to remain in pointed and stiff positions throughout the show, producing an artificial and amateurish effect--though they relax somewhat by the third...
BORN. To Valerie Velardi, 31, ballet dancer, and her husband of five years, Robin Williams, 30, hyperkinetic comic actor (Popeye, The World According to Garp and TV's Mork and Mindy): their first child, a son; in San Francisco. Name: Zachary. Weight...
DIED. Norbert Pearlroth, 89, researcher who, believe it or not, from 1923 to 1975 was the sole discoverer and documentor of all the obscure and fascinating trivia that made up the syndicated comic strip Ripley's Believe It or Not; of heart and kidney diseases; in New York City. Hired by Strip Creator and Illustrator Robert Ripley for his linguistic abilities and memory for detail, Pearlroth thereafter spent seven days a week every week in the New York Public Library, unearthing at least 62,192 amazing facts and anecdotes. One skeptical reader wrote 27,167 double-checking letters...
...Verdict, Pennies from Heaven, and Chariots of Fire, which may make the book a difficult read 20 years from now. But much of the book's worth comes in its assessment of Hollywood at the time it went to press: Goldman argues that today's preponderance of "comic-book" films is not just said, but actually dangerous; in the old days, money from blockbusters was funnelled back, so that an occasional Citizen Kane might emerge. Now, blockbusters simply breed blockbusters. When an arty, message film scores big, it's written off as a "non-recurring phenomenon...
...best moments, leading the rest of the cast in the opening song. "Company." At the end of the musical, in the full company number, "Being Alive," he radiates, making meaningful and heartfelt a song that teeters on the brink of pure schmaltz. He is also competent delivering comic spoken lines, "smiling even as he dies from drinking boiled orange juice," for example. His solo numbers, however, while still satisfactory, are a little hoarse by Saturday's late performance...