By GIANNI TRUZZI SPECIAL TO THE P-I As the Boss frankly says, Man made up good according to "what he needed to do business." In Intiman's production of "All the King's Men," it's when the cast is allowed to get down to business that the good happens. But its slavish faithfulness to Robert Penn Warren's 1946 novel and clumsily grafted music gets in the way. The centerpiece of Warren's poetic and unflinching story is Willie Stark, the idealistic but ruthless politician patterned after Huey P. Long, the Louisiana governor and senator. As Stark, John Procaccino is at the top of his game. He takes to the role like the tailored suit in which he struts: bold, brash and less gleeful of power than of denying it to the smug establishment. He rules as the neophyte idealist fumbling through fact-laden speeches who, in the play's keystone...
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