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Anatoly Dobrynin, who died April 6 at 90, was not your average diplomat. As the current U.N. Security Council so plainly put it in a statement, "He played a major role in saving the world from a nuclear disaster." Dobrynin, who worked with six American Presidents as the Soviet ambassador to the U.S., took on that position in 1962. Almost immediately, he was involved in negotiations with the Kennedy brothers to defuse the Cuban missile crisis. Originally an engineer, Dobrynin was ambassador for 24 Cold War years; altogether his storied diplomatic career lasted more than 40 years. While serving...
...turn in Vice Versa, she half jokes, is "a hard thing to watch"), she caught a break as a lesbian poodle trainer in Christopher Guest's 2000 mockumentary, Best in Show. ("She's as smart as anyone I think I've probably ever met," says Guest, who tailored the role to suit Lynch's talents.) Over the next decade, she delivered impeccably timed comic performances in a slew of roles, among them a porn star turned folksinger in A Mighty Wind (2003), an unctuous lawyer on Showtime's The L Word (2005), a guidance counselor with a past in Role...
...playing small by being in an ensemble," she says. "It's my favorite way to work." Her co-stars enjoy her too. "There are only a few people out there who are universally beloved," says Paul Rudd, who worked with Lynch in The 40-Year-Old Virgin and Role Models. "Everybody knows how funny she is. The biggest challenge is not laughing while you're doing a scene with...
Standing 6 ft. (1.8 m) tall in gym shoes, Lynch has often gotten screen time by taking on parts intended for men. "My first role in high school was the king in a one-act version of 'The Princess and the Pea,'" she recalls. "It started the pattern." (In The 40-Year-Old Virgin, she plays Carell's boss - a part originally written for a guy - with lecherous absurdity.) But Glee is the first chance audiences have had to watch Lynch inhabit a featured character over time...
Perhaps no player’s role is more important than the goalkeeper’s—the team’s last line of defense...