Word: wallach
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...cheesecake he could eat). Good off-Broadway jobs came in The Sea Gull (1954), Thieves' Carnival (1955), The Beaux' Stratagem, and The Power and the Glory (last year). Bosley won the La Guardia role over more than 200 other contenders (both Mickey Rooney and Eli Wallach had been considered), prepared himself by listening to recordings, reading biographies and studying still photographs, but he carefully avoided overdoing all that. "I do an impression," he says, "not an imitation...
...Franchot Tone introduces scenes from Broadway shows- Waiting for Lefty, Inside U.S.A., South Pacific, Call Me Mister, Watch on the Rhine, There Shall Be No Night, West Side Story, Raisin in the Sun-to demonstrate "the American theater's continuing fight against bigotry." With Phyllis Newman, Eli Wallach, Tom Poston, William Shatner, Bill Tabbert...
...Elia Kazan, who had something of Cobb's history. Once again Lee Cobb was on top until a heart attack in 1955. Since then, he has regained his stature as Hollywood's No. 1 sin-ridden heavy. In I, Don Quixote, Actor Cobb, brilliantly backed by Eli Wallach and Colleen Dewhurst, put on a performance that was both poignant and terrifying but never out of control. His deeply felt Don Quixote seemed to overcome the world, as Philosopher Unamuno put it, "by giving [it] cause to laugh...
...boggle is, among other things, the gurgle made by quicksand as it closes over its victim. Such febrile considerations flash through the boggled minds of readers as they sink out of sight in Author Wallach's pun-swampy prose. The man is popping with word-foolery. He interrupts his narrative-and a more interruptible narrative would be hard to find-to inform the reader that a tirade is "a sneak attack on a haberdashery," and a syndrome is "a large amphitheater where the ancient Romans used to sin." He dreams moodily of going to Canada and establishing a police...
They are, and it is just as well, If the little monsters were to breed, perhaps with the four-headed puns of Peter (The Tunnel of Love) De Vries, the printed word might never be the same. Still, considering the general run of summer fiction, Wallach's fable is funny enough. He tells of a soulful young swimming-pool salesman who leaves Manhattan because "inside stuffy little apartments a million parakeets mess up their cages and refuse to say an intelligent word"-a conception subtle with the flavor of Zen-Zen, the West Coast's cultural mouthwash...