‘Waterfront’ Is Sinking In An Ocean Of Bad Ink
The Broadway version of “On the Waterfront” opened Monday, and on Tuesday came the reviews. They weren’t good.
Clive Barnes, New York Post: “Splash… gurgle… gurgle… gurgle,” went the acerbic reviewer’s lead. “It is not a contenda… (It is)… bloodless.”
Vincent Canby, New York Times: The production is “a monument only to the material heart of slapdash show biz,” and it “moves as if its feet hurt.” Its main interest is in “seeing what happens when a Rolex of a film is taken apart for no special aesthetic reason, then put back together with much of its mechanism missing.”
USA Today: “Most of the actors resort to soap-opera acting, especially Penelope Ann Miller.”
Loose talk
Bill Maher, host of “Politically Incorrect,” delivering entertainment news: “Art Fleming, the original host of the TV show ‘Jeopardy’ has passed away. Sadly, doctors ignored his request for help because it was not in the form of a question.”
It’s about time to get a new dog, truck, image
Randy Travis turns 36 today.
Does that second one rate as a stupid pet trick?
Even David Letterman honors Earth Day. “Because of that,” he said, “tonight, all of my jokes have been recycled.” In Los Angeles, he noted, “volunteers worked all day long cleaning up Mickey Rourke.”
They’re so nutty they belong in the circus
Tony Curtis, 69, has found joy with 20-something Jill Van Den Berg. The 6-foot-2 blonde recently was seen dressed in a skintight dress and steel-studded dog collar. “We are an item,” Curtis said. “I’m really crazy-nuts about Jill…. I’m nuts about her and she’s nuts about me.”
You know, she does look like a cute little cocker
Kevin Kline, whose clever tongue sometimes is too quick for his brain, may get some hate mail. Joking on “Entertainment Tonight,” the Oscar-winning actor talked Tuesday about “French Kiss” co-star Meg Ryan. “I’d seen her work and I thought she was nice and pleasant and attractive,” Kline said, laughing. “Then, I met her at the first rehearsal without make-up. And you know, she was a shrew and kind of a dog!”
Of Patty and Nic, Mel and Don, Isabelle and Dan
From celebrity-couple central: Patricia Arquette, freshly wed to actor Nicolas Cage, is pregnant; the troubled Melanie Griffith-Don Johnson marriage is off again; French actress Isabelle Adjani delivered a son, whose father is British actor Daniel Day-Lewis, last month in New York.
Those liberals are always in a rush to print insults
Syndicated columnist Molly Ivins, who takes on Rush Limbaugh in the June issue of Mother Jones, admits that she has been attacked by the radio personality, which she describes as “an experience somewhat akin to being gummed by a newt. It doesn’t actually hurt, but it leaves you with slimy stuff on your ankle.”
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