Cliff Gorman

...the play's initial stage run in New York City, includes Kenneth Nelson as Michael, Peter White as Alan, Leonard Frey as Harold, Cliff Gorman as Emory, Frederick Combs as Donald, Laurence Luckinbill as Hank, Keith Prentice as Larry, Robert La...

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...of a live-in caregiver. La Tourneaux won the court case, but died on June 3, 1986. Boys co-star Cliff Gorman and his wife cared for him during his illness up through to his death. ''The Boys in the Band '' (1968 play) ''The Boys in...

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...premiere at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles on October 7, 1977 with Judd Hirsch as George, Anita Gillette as Jennie, Cliff Gorman as Leo, and Ann Wedgeworth as Faye. It ran through November 26 and then transferred to the Imperial...

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...structure is often compared to Federico Fellini's 8½, another thinly-veiled autobiographical film with fantastical elements. Cliff Gorman's role of a difficult and self-obsessed actor portraying a real-life notorious stand-up comic was...

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...convoluted monologue in which Nina confuses herself with the titular bird. (Broadway Theatre Archive) Cliff Gorman, "The Boys in the Band" The Brooklyn-born Gorman, who won a 1974 Tony for playing tough-guy comic Lenny Bruce in Julian...

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...607 performances. The original cast included Ralph Waite as Stanton, Faye Dunaway as Kathleen, and Tom Ahearne as Quinn, with Cliff Gorman and Conrad Bain in supporting roles. Replacements later in the run included Barnard Hughes and Richard...

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...O'Horgan's other notable Broadway productions was "Lenny," a play by Julian Berry about comedian Lenny Bruce, who was portrayed by Cliff Gorman. He also directed the musical revue "Inner City." Among his more notable off-Broadway...

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...that a straight director was handed the keys to the screen version of a breakthrough gay play. One can argue the pros and cons of Cliff Gorman's confrontational performance as Emory, the play and film's most outrageously effeminate...

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...cartoons) and some Jim Jarmusch-style "humor." This consists largely of Mafia lampoons handled crudely for the opera bouffe crowd. Cliff Gorman, for example, one of many people in the hierarchy that Ghost Dog eliminates one by one, is apt to...

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...them. He sends a bird into Louie's apartment every day for messages. "Hold it, hold it, hold it!" says Vargo's sideman, Sonny (Cliff Gorman). "Did you just say he contacts you through a [expletive] bird?" "What particular species of bird?"...

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