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...steeliness, Ickes opened the 8:30 a.m. White House staff meeting with the grim news, then issued a call for business as usual. But within minutes he had turned the meeting into an impromptu wake, with staff members swapping fond anecdotes and roguish tales, all of them rich in laughter and full of deep pride in Brown. Even Ickes told...
...gonna do the U.N. The President wants me to be Secretary of Commerce." Brown took a sip of cognac and smiled. "What does Commerce do?" he asked. "I don't even know where the building is," replied Ickes. As he told the story, Ickes swung from laughter to tears, then settled into a wistful chuckle...
...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...