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From the age of 4 1/2 to 14, I rarely spoke. That's because I am a stutterer--even now, after a long career as an actor. I understand there are some wonderful techniques used today to solve a problem like mine, but in my day I just had Professor Crouch. Donald Crouch was a professor who had known Robert Frost and had taught at some of the same Midwestern universities. He retired to this small community in Brethren, Mich., where my high school was--and he couldn't stand it. So he dropped his plow--he was a farmer...
Still, the stutter was just one thing I had to overcome on my way to becoming an actor. Another was that my family disapproved of the profession. When I started to discuss acting with my grandparents--my mother's folks, who raised me--they didn't want to hear about it. That's because my father had left our family to become a prizefighter in New York and later an actor. I was never part of his family really, and it wasn't until I was in my 20s that I had a relationship with him. He played...
...mother's family didn't appreciate what my father did. They did not respect him because he was not steadfast as a father, and they couldn't understand how someone could make a living as an actor. You farmed for a living. You went to work on the railroad for a living. My family couldn't imagine going to college--and especially spending money to go to college--for anything except doctoring, lawyering or engineering. They made it very difficult for me to ever see my father, and they forbade me from ever talking about being an actor...
Currently starring in the Broadway rendition of the 1988 movie “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels” and earning his 5th Tony nomination for his lead role, Lithgow will debut at today’s Afternoon Exercises as the first professional actor to speak at a Harvard Commencement...
...He’s hardly your typical actor in the movies,” says Ansen, now a movie critic and senior editor for Newsweek. “[Most movie actors] are really only themselves when they have someone else’s lines to speak, but John is not that way. He is very smart and very eloquent and has never let his celebrity turn his head...