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...instead of the thousand he once earned, he was man enough to show up. He had some country hits in the '60s, and in 1968 played Iago in the L.A. production of an "Othello" musical called "Catch My Soul"; he spoke the lines word-perfect, in his deep bayou drawl, and stole the show. "This Shakespeare was really somethin," he told the L.A. Times. "I wonder what he woulda thought of my records...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: That Old Feeling: Golden Sun | 8/10/2002 | See Source »

Billings also keeps busy singing bass in his local choir and lending his reassuring drawl to voice-overs for documentaries. And he hasn’t forgotten his early pursuits—he now acts in and directs shows at the Alameda Repertory Theater, which he founded, and writes editorials for his local newspaper...

Author: By Stephen W. Stromberg, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: A Vigilante Travels the Consulting Circuit Alone | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

...Throughout my career, public and private, there have been two things I have had an unwavering commitment to,” the Mississippi native began in flawless Southern drawl, giving a Clinton-esque thumbs...

Author: By Stephanie E. Butler, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Time & Again | 6/3/2002 | See Source »

...worked very hard to get where I am," she says in her intimate drawl. And she has arrived there at an age (she will be 44 this month) when so many actresses are wistfully thinking of where they have been, because where they are is on the unemployment line...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Movies: Andie's Arrival | 4/15/2002 | See Source »

...incredibly quiet and never talked; he just seemed to paint and to stare. But after someone in our group blurted out that I was Miss Harvard, he suddenly became more interested in speaking with me. Chewing on a piece of grass and talking in a southern drawl, he encouraged me as I twirled a broom like it was a baton. Later, when his brother came to pick him up and asked what the best part of his day was, Boone said it was meeting Miss Harvard. His brother, ignorant of who had actually won, wanted to stick around and meet...

Author: By William L. Adams, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: The True Confessions of Miss Harvard | 4/5/2002 | See Source »

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