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Comic Chris Farley was no suffering fool, as your headline said [NATION, Dec. 29-Jan. 5]. He was a man who made me and thousands of others laugh at his high jinks. You quoted Saturday Night Live cast member Rob Schneider as saying that Farley "didn't love himself." I disagree. Although I did not know Farley personally, I believe the joy he brought to others is love itself. We all have good angels and bad angels. The bad angels took Farley flying off to heaven laughing. WALTER BUITRAGO Hollywood...
...contemporary Hoboken, New Jersey, the play opens as Julie (Edith H. Bishop '00) confesses her longtime obsession with computers and technology to friend and neighbor Claire (Claire E. Farley '01). With little experience in high school and even less self-confidence, Julie explains that she fears her own stupidity and inability to succeed. Though Claire initially lets her know that school doesn't have to be her thing, Julie eventually agrees to join her for night classes at a local community college. Telling neither her husband or her children, Julie quietly sets out on her efforts to redirect her life...
...Farley is brilliant in her depiction of Claire, moderating comical absurdity and adding intensity to simplistically earnest emotions. With some dangerously cliched lines yet displaying incredible depth of character the novice to Harvard drama proves a worthy opposite to Bishop's Julie...
...friends had always given him "the Talk." Sheldon Patinkin, artistic consultant of the famed Second City comedy troupe, where Farley got his start, says, "He seemed to be hell-bent. I told him, 'You're drinking yourself to death. You're destroying your brain cells, and pretty soon you'll find it hard to be funny.'" Says Patinkin: "He knew it, and he'd agree, but he couldn't stop." Equally concerned was Farley's mentor Dan Aykroyd, who worried about the young comedian's idolization of another self-destructive SNL comic, Aykroyd's friend John Belushi, who died...
...performer's vices," says a former SNL writer who was fond of Farley. "He was always on." Adulation helped ease that anxiety, but that drug was of limited efficacy. Says friend and former SNL cast member Rob Schneider: "If you need love from everybody, it feels good, but eventually the nightclub audiences go home, eventually the TV shows are over and the movies end, and you've got to live with yourself." Schneider adds, "Everybody loved him, but ultimately that wasn't enough, because he didn't love himself...