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The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story
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 his meticulous caricatures, and they should be pleased as punch. Writer-director Susan W. Dryfoos gives Hirschfeld's life the once over lightly through interviews with celebrity subjects, friends and family members. The bright lights range from Katharine Hepburn, Carol Channing and Jason Robards to Waspish
New Yorker
writer Brendan Gill and New York theater legend Joseph Papp, while the relatives include Hirschfeld's late wife, German actress Dolly Haas, and Nina herself, his now middle-aged daughter. Efforts to paint Hirschfeld the equal of Max Beerbohm and Ronald Searle are a bit unconvincing, but never mind: His cleanly executed drawings are a straightforward pleasure, and so is this film.
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