Word: ragno
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Kopit's wry premise is to take the rhetorical excesses of ambition -- people saying they would slit their wrists, eat excrement or give up an intimate body part to achieve some goal -- and render them literally. His hustlers from the fringe of the movie business (Joseph Ragno and Bruce Adler) are more than a little crazy. Even crazier is the fact that their self- abasement might make them as rich as they think. The production hit a long dead spot in the second act, where Julianne Moore could not find much real in the underwritten role of a rock star...
...what Sherry's lawyer Robert Gaynor called "a major victory," Judge Thomas Ragno spared Sherry from deportation, which would have prevented him from returning to this country without an official waiver...