Show Business: Uncommon Apprentice

Henry Wiggen is a winner—a blond-and-blue-eyed All-America baseball hero, golden, graceful and uncomplicated. Julian Weston is a maggot-pale homosexual prostitute, strung out like a taut wire between self-inflicted denigration and a yearning for clean, well-lighted love. What these totally disparate characters—the one in John Hancock's film Bang the Drum Slowly, the other in English Playwright John Hopkins' Broadway drama Find Your Way Home —have in common is the very uncommon talent of Actor Michael Moriarty, who plays them both. With the release of the film in August and the opening of the play...

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