Word: censor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...difficult role of Corday's lover Duperet, Ben Evett is hilariously lewd, while Laurie Gallueto is equally effective in the role of Simonne Evrard, the head of Charenton, who tries to neal her patients through participation in art. At the same time, she is the censor of the play, who interrupts subversive talk and menacingly reminds the crazies that "everything is being done to alleviate sufferings." Pale and stone-faced, she makes the audience's blood run cold...
...course, Jackson still heads straight for the spotlight when it is available. Against the opinion of some advisers, he was host of NBC's Saturday Night Live. He brought along his own censor, Harvard Psychiatry Professor Alvin Poussaint, to vet the scripts; Jackson excised at least one joke from a funny monologue about people who are unwelcome to join his Rainbow Coalition. (The rejected line: that "really, really, really poor people" were not included...
...remember one day the line at the censor was terribly long and the Express man was frantically pacing back and forth wondering how he would get through quickly...
Suddenly -- you could see it in his face -- inspiration struck. He dashed out a story on a typewriter, slipped it through the censor in a minute and then yelled for a telephone. "Get me London!" and got London in a minute...
Suddenly, inspiration struck him. He whipped his story past the censor and called London: "Plans to Send Six Soviet Cosmonauts into Outer Space Mysteriously Scrubbed...