Word: conti
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Mary Tyler Moore has come to Broadway, and it's a love match. Her kind of natural, straightforward appeal defies resistance. She has shown considerable temerity in taking over the role of a quadriplegic, first played by Tom Conti with virtuosic skill. The audacity of Moore's undertaking is redeemed by the high caliber of her performance...
Lines that left Conti's mouth as self-mocking witticisms seem more like sarcastic putdowns coming from Moore's. It is scarcely due to her inflections but to the fact that rightly or wrongly, one expects a woman to respond differently to personal calamity than a man does...