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...Thousand Faces. As it turned out, Actor Evans had one face: immobile. He also played Ava Gardner's bullfighter in The Sun Also Rises. It was bad enough that Papa Hemingway did not want him in the film. Neither did Tyrone Power. Or Errol Flynn. Even Mel Ferrer turned thumbs down. "They resented the fact," says Evans with acuity, "that a pants manufacturer was playing Pedro Romero...
...Mel King, head of the United Front, was also present at yesterday's news conference. He said, "This is an attempt by the system to justify treachery. They are trying to remove young black leadership. This is a threat to the community. Black people cannot sit by and allow this kind of harassment to take place...
Attorney Boccardo, 59, is a longtime standout in the flamboyant brotherhood of personal-injury lawyers. His first part-time office in 1934 was in a mortuary; now his San Jose firm boasts 30 attorneys, ten investigators and the services of a doctor. "We used skeletons long before Mel Belli ever heard of them," he says. He claims to have won more $500,000-plus verdicts than anyone else. "I've got the record judgment in every county in California," he adds. Good as Boccardo declares himself to be, it has taken a recent association with two Reno lawyers...
...rather surprising, then, that one of the counselors inspired us to build a cult around a comedian named Mel Brooks during my last Stockbridge summer. It is especially surprising when you consider who are the targets of a record such as the Brooks "2000 Year Old Man" (Capitol). I doubt if we ever quite understood then that we loved Mel Brooks because we were the very people he was lambasting...
...Brooks' best pranks is contained in his first movie, The Producers, in which a tasteless musical lauding Nazism (and titled Springtime for Hitler ) becomes the darling of the New York stage. This week Mel Brooks turned up in Boston to talk with critics about his second film ( The Twelve Chairs, opening at the Astor today), and he was, of course, uncomfortable in dealing with the kind of cultural arbiters who could conceivably make something like a Springtime for Hitler a success...