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...King and I, he narrowed his sights still further-to Broadway. He studied drama at the University of Texas at Austin and after graduating in 1961 turned north toward Times Square. He missed out on several parts because of his height, but finally got into the chorus of Irma La Douce. Some of the other shows he was in, Baker Street and A Joyful Noise, were less successful, but Tune remembers those days in the chorus line as the happiest of his life. "I love being part of a team," he says. "There is an incredible feeling when...
...mocking offstage self to the attention of millions; of a heart attack; in Burbank, Calif. Conried was celebrated for his skillful use of accents: a villainous Nazi in early films, a zany Bulgarian sculptor in the Broadway musical Can-Can, a sheepish professor on radio's My Friend Irma. "Give me a laugh onstage," said Conried, "and I am like a tiger who has tasted blood...
...naturalized British subject, Cummings lives with his Swiss wife Irma in Monte Carlo (twin daughters, 19, are U.S. undergraduates) and their life is not ostentatious. Unremarkable, too, Cummings claims, is his business: "Like any other trade," he says. "We don't sell anything without official British or American export licenses. I am not a gun runner." Cummings regrets the U.S. ban on arms sales to Iran ("lost business...
...gonna throw you out the window.' Then I said, 'Listen, Peter, before you're gonna throw me out the window, I gonna go out through the door." "Work, good wages and respect. That's what they wanted for the workers. To be people, not nobody," Irma Lombardi, who picketed the Paterson mills in 1913, says...
...Kraft Theater. Says she: "He was a terrible actor then-we laugh about it now-and totally charming." Dougherty also turned up Al Pacino and Dustin Hoffman. Stalmaster's finds include Jon Voight (four lines in Hour of the Gun), James Caan (a silent reaction in Irma La Douce) and Gilda Radner (an other silent bit in The Last Detail...