Word: huck
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...died of a heart attack. After graduating from Southwest Missouri State University (Kathleen Turner was a classmate), Goodman hopped a train for New York City, helped by $1,000 saved for him by his brother. A decade of stage work culminated in 1985 with a major Broadway role: as Huck Finn's "Pap" in the hit musical Big River. In 1987, while appearing in a Los Angeles production of Antony and Cleopatra, Goodman was asked to audition for a new sitcom opposite Roseanne Barr. The reading was an instant success. "I knew I had the part when I walked...
...River (1985). This winsome adaptation of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn celebrated the frontier in music and lyrics by Roger Miller, a wistful lamenter of the lost open road. Designed and staged with shrewd simplicity, it glowed with sentiment: when Huck and the runaway slave Jim got onto the river, they lit cigars -- and ignited a skyful of stars...