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...except that the blender breaks down from time to time. The hero, Jerry Ryan, is a WASP lawyer on separation leave from 1) Omaha and 2) his wife. Ken Howard, who plays this role, bears an uncanny physical resemblance to New York Mayor John Vliet Lindsay. The heroine, Gittel Mosca (Michele Lee), is an artsy Jewish girl on the lam from The Bronx to Greenwich Village. She is spunky and sassy, but inwardly scared. Out of mutual need, the pair promptly share bedded bliss until sense collides with sensuality...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Love on Asphalt | 4/2/1973 | See Source »

...little trouble maintaining a consistent portrayal of a chamber pot magnate. As his wife Julie, Wendy Walker manages a couple of very good moments as she waxes lyrical in several bathetic incidents. But almost unpardonably she begins giggling at some of her own lines. M. Chouilloux, played by Mark Mosca, is a very consistent, very careful, occasionally startled, war office bureaucrat, outlandishly dressed but with a quiet demeanour...

Author: By Dwight Cramer, | Title: Going to Pot | 5/19/1972 | See Source »

...deadline for playing the first round is Friday, July 19. Each player will be sent the name of his opponent and will arrange a date for their match. No games except the finals will be announced, according to Paul Mosca, director of the Tournament...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: More Than 100 Enter Tennis Tourney Here | 7/12/1968 | See Source »

...Wiplash Willy, the shyster lawyer specializing in negligence cases, Matthau outdoes himself--and everyone else in the movie. Midway between Mosca and Louie Nizer, Wiplash Willy is a wonderful offense to the American legal process...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: The Fortune Cookie | 12/12/1966 | See Source »

...discussing the career of Quasimodo apart from the Inquisition. Yet the actors as individuals cannot be held responsible for their collective failure. Within the all-too-Hasty-Pudding concept of the whole production, some of the cast members fill their parts quite competently. Chris Baker, though ridiculously miscast as Mosca, delivers a good comic aside, moves comfortably around the stage, and neatly captures the slyness of the character. Peter Goldberg's Volpone is one-note throughout, since he is physically unable to simulate death-bed sickliness; otherwise Goldberg achieves a sadly uncomic lechery that fills the role, but hardly realizes...

Author: By James Lardner, | Title: Volpone | 12/2/1966 | See Source »

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