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From that moment on, I learned that Lithgow is what every student on this campus aspires to be, deep down in his or her heart: he’s fifty percent intimidating, fifty percent welcoming, and one-hundred percent in control of his audience. Skills honed during a lifetime of theater give him an unmatchable presence...
...Lithgow admits that the speaker at his own Commencement, the venerable diplomat and political thinker Edwin O. Reischauer, probably made some very important statements in his address. “But I have no idea what he said,” he guffaws...
...uncannily prescient review of Lithgow was written for The Crimson in 1965 about his role in “Tartuffe,” in which Harrison H. Young ’66 says, “If John Lithgow weren’t the star of this show it wouldn’t be worth seeing. He is. It is. See it. When you grow up you can tell people at cocktail parties you saw him before...
...mention the Hasty Pudding Theatricals to Lithgow, however, and he immediately grunts like a disapproving waiter at a fancy restaurant. “I considered the Pudding beneath my dignity,” he says...
While such statements make Lithgow sound like he was a pretentious theater kid, he makes a compelling and typically Harvardian argument for the merits of his attitude. He says theater at Harvard “was pretty cliquey. There were rival camps; there was ferocious competition for slots. That’s the terrain, but also, we were cutting our teeth. You learn a lot more from that...