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...that, as you can guess by now, was acting, as my wife Mary and I instantly realized when we met George in the '90s. The man was a pussycat, warm and modest, his strong opinions on politics and the performing arts mediated by a Southern affability. On stage he was master of the quiet revelation of cosmic disappointment - the existential wince - but when the makeup came off he gave every evidence of enjoying his time on earth: spinning anecdotes about the actors and playwrights he knew, or devouring a Bay's English muffin, or working on his flower and vegetable...
...other gig. You can go play a gig and there might be no one there, versus, if you play on the streets, at least in Cambridge, you’re always playing for someone. There’s always an opportunity to build an audience.“I guess essentially a venue would be better, because there’s a better sound system, but I just care to play in front of an audience, so however I can obtain that is great,” Gerard says.He’s trying to develop and maintain...
...play, more than anything else, explores the idea of communicating, of how effectively communicating can act as salvation—communication coming in to save the day when all else fails, when your own faculties fail. Oh God, I do sound pretentious… It’s, I guess, not just pretending like we’re the first people to do that on stage, but rather staying away from the idea of this being a play about ideas."Flynn hopes that the sum of her efforts will leave the audience impressed."It?...
...Saturday, August 13, 2005, at 4:30 a.m., the ring of my red phone woke me in Eliot House. I didn’t know who the caller was, but he told me to guess. I threw out a name, and he confirmed it. We talked for a few minutes, then I excused myself and went back...
...picture of me standing at a lectern. And it might not have been so bad, but it was a really bad picture. I e-mailed them and said, ‘Why are you selling my picture without permission?’ And they responded, ‘I guess we’re not very well-behaved girls.’” This lighthearted anecdote served as a segue into reflections on the nature of historical scholarship.“I’m a teacher, and this was kind of like a teaching moment, as they...