On the Record: Oct. 24, 1983

He first appeared as the lusty Greek peasant in the 1964 film, which earned him an Oscar nomination for best actor. Now, 19 years later, Anthony Quinn, 68, is once again playing Zorba, this time in the flesh. Looking a little older and maybe even wiser, Quinn this week opens in a Broadway revival of a 1968 musical version, which originally starred Herschel Bernard!. The intervening years have hardly mellowed the Mexican-born Quinn's old-fashioned machismo. "Men don't know where they are with this women's liberation," he says. "I don't see many men today....

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