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The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story

1996, Movie, NR, 87 mins

The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story: Review

Don't be put off by the title, whose cutsey-pie punning on THE LION KING is entirely without point. And ignore the fact that this documentary look at the life and work of 93-year-old caricaturist Al Hirschfeld, gimlet-eyed iconographer of theater-world luminaries, really belongs on TV rather than in movie theaters. It's designed to appeal to those aspiring sophisticates who grew up ripping through the Sunday New York Times so they could look for the spidery "Ninas" hidden in... read more leave a comment