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...until one day when a patient of hers nearly dies after submitting to her "procedure" and she finds herself in the law's clutches. It is as gentle as it can be, considering her saintly demeanor. But it is also implacable in its need to punish her--indeed, to crush her spirit...
...brings to the role, at last we can." So far, no replacement candidates have materialized to play Max after Lane moves on. British actor Henry Goodman, who replaced Lane in New York City before being sacked after just 30 performances, says he loves the show, but the role can crush a star's creativity: "I wasn't allowed to try anything, not one step, that was different. Mel Brooks said to me, 'Go and see Nathan Lane every day and do what he does.'" Even Landesman acknowledges the enormous energy and patience needed to nail the role. "Casting...
...It’s been a huge crush to my self esteem. The shortest guy is like six inches taller than me, and one of the guys is like 6’8.” Davies, who stands at 6’4, has felt more at ease...
...have been spent on his subjects; many are the central figure in one or several books. Even the comparatively little-known Giannini gets four pages in the Dictionary of American Biography. And it's hardly revealing that creative minds universally must put up with institutional doubts that would crush lesser individuals...
...Motown. But where these genres draw their pain through mostly musical means, this is nothing compared to more clever bands who have made albums chronicling their pain through woe-wrought lyrics cast over pop melodies that add pathos to the songs in a brew that never fails to crush the willing spirit. It occurs to me that Rob’s tastes may have never needed to cross the Atlantic...