Word: laughter
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...actor who impressed director Mike Nichols, who came backstage after watching Lane play a Sid Caesar-like TV star in Neil Simon's Laughter on the 23rd Floor. On the spot, he offered Lane the role of Albert in a remake of the French comedy La Cage aux Folles--alongside Robin Williams, in the more sober role of Armand. Lane initially had to turn Nichols down because of a scheduling conflict with his next big Broadway show, a revival of the musical A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum. But Nichols kept calling, and the show...
...Irish-American family in Jersey City, New Jersey, where he regularly starred in the plays at St. Peter's Prep. In New York he started building his theater resume, appearing in flops (the Doug Henning musical Merlin) and a few prestige successes (a revival of Noel Coward's Present Laughter starring George C. Scott) before finding his artistic voice in several plays by McNally. His long association and friendship with the playwright is currently asunder, because Lane passed up a chance to co-star in the movie version of Love! Valour! Compassion! Lane blamed a schedule conflict, but McNally...
Despite the complaints, however, the two teams seemed to enjoy the show, with both sides frequently bursting into laughter...
...does all this in passable French. Midway through the show, he announces a series of clarinet-banjo duets. "The others have to rest their lips," he explains. "But not me. I'm very strong, because I live right. I eat well and sleep well." The audience howls with laughter...
Often the saw or caulking mallet falls silent while I listen to that whispering, hearing the view from Paris about how the phrase "Native American" subverts United States immigrant assimilation, the opinion from India about the unwillingness of United States intellectuals to seriously analyze Federal farm policy, the laughter from Spain about American feminists as unable to go top-free on beaches as they are unable to nudge Congress toward state-funded daycare, the careful analysis from a half-dozen countries of Muslim imperialism versus the iconography of Madonna, the reminder from Rome that Italy once governed one-third...