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Jane Lynch, the 49-year-old actress who wields Sue's bullhorn, has made a career out of playing a hard-ass. But in person, as it happens, Lynch is nice. She smiles easily and gushes over the show's writers, her castmates and her fans. In the earnestness department, in fact, she isn't too far removed from the Glee clubbers themselves. (See the all TIME 100 TV shows...
...pattern that could just as handily describe Lynch's career. After years of acting in commercials, minor films and TV shows (her 1988 turn in Vice Versa, she half jokes, is "a hard thing to watch"), she caught a break as a lesbian poodle trainer in Christopher Guest's 2000 mockumentary, Best in Show. ("She's as smart as anyone I think I've probably ever met," says Guest, who tailored the role to suit Lynch's talents.) Over the next decade, she delivered impeccably timed comic performances in a slew of roles, among them a porn star turned folksinger...
...added that until very recently, LGB groups were reluctant to include the ‘T’ in their advocacy, suggesting that because gay people have had to fight so hard for their own humanity, it is difficult for them to embrace a group that tends to be even more vulnerable and marginalized than they are. In order to be included, he said, transgender people had to adopt an alternate way to address the issues...
...came out pretty hard and established a good lead,” freshman James Groeneveld said. “We were pretty comfortable during the middle thousand. Then in the last 500, Navy really came back strong. They never gave up and pulled hard, which they always do. But we came here to win and were happy to do that...
...thought we came out great,” Shaw said. “We hit the ball very hard, and we came out and really showed our intensity in our bats...