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...Lane was a match for his wildly inventive co-star. "He'd try things just as outrageous as I would," says Williams. "Hard to find someone who does that." Nichols would typically let the pair run loose with improvisations in at least one take per scene. Lane's own favorite came when Albert learns that Armand doesn't want him around to meet the uptight parents of the girl Armand's son wants to marry. Lane went high-flying hysterical, screaming to onlookers at a sidewalk cafe ("I'm a homeless person!"), then fainting dead away. "All the extras...
...star Zero Mostel, he replies with a tart "Who?") Lane grew up in a working-class Irish-American family in Jersey City, New Jersey, where he regularly starred in the plays at St. Peter's Prep. In New York he started building his theater resume, appearing in flops (the Doug Henning musical Merlin) and a few prestige successes (a revival of Noel Coward's Present Laughter starring George C. Scott) before finding his artistic voice in several plays by McNally. His long association and friendship with the playwright is currently asunder, because Lane passed up a chance to co-star...
DIED. AUDREY MEADOWS, 71, actress; of lung cancer; in Los Angeles. She began her career as a soprano, playing Carnegie Hall and Broadway. And then, in 1952, she became Alice on The Honeymooners. Meadows and co-star Jackie Gleason (who died in 1987) were a study in the metaphysics of comedy, a working-class yin and yang who made that sitcom a peak experience of American pop culture. Gleason as bus driver Ralph Kramden was huge, bombastic, extravagant with feeling. Meadows as his wife was slight, cool, drolly down-to-earth. She imbued Alice with a prefeminist feistiness that rendered...
...grim year for celebrity couples in Britain, the latest marital casualty has prompted the most schadenfreude of all. Alas, the once golden union of KENNETH BRANAGH and EMMA THOMPSON is now asunder. Just before photos of Thompson, 36, holding hands with her Sense and Sensibility co-star Greg Wise, 29, turned up in the tabs, the thinking gossip's Charles and Di announced the split themselves, blaming the long stretches they spend working apart...
...short-lived late-night shows--women have been left to amuse from the guest chair. But the fall TV season has brought two new women to late night: Stephanie Miller, the brash former host of a top-rated Los Angeles radio show, and the husky-voiced former supermodel (and co-star of this season's Central Park West) Lauren Hutton. Both aspire to distinguish themselves with shows that are, in at least some respects, stylized and unconventional...