Spalding Gray

...to a unique style of writing and acting: "The 1980s saw the rise of the autobiographical monologue, its leading practitioner Spalding Gray, the WASP from Rhode Island who portrays himself as an innocent abroad in a crazy contemporary...

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...Cale is thought of chiefly as a monologist. Earlier in his career, he often found himself grouped with Spalding Gray and Eric Bogosian. But while Gray made an art form of his arch humor and dispassionate style and Bogosian was known for his...

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...running time of the performance was four hours long and took place over two nights. Swimming to Cambodia won Gray an Obie award. In 2001, Gray took Swimming to Cambodia back to the stage in Los Angeles, Chicago and Albany, New York. The...

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...Young: Heart of Gold and Rachel Getting Married. But do you think of Swimming to Cambodia as a Demme film? Or do you think of it as a Spalding Gray performance piece? Do you think of Grey's Anatomy as a Steven Soderbergh movie? Ever? If...

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...to Gray's earlier work, Swimming to Cambodia, the work consists of a long-form monologue by Gray detailing the trials and tribulations he encountered while writing his first novel, Impossible Vacation. The soundtrack for the film was...

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...woman (Alina Troyano, a.k.a. Carmelita Tropicana)? If none of them is really close to the "real" Gray, who's to say how close the onstage Gray was, either? Of course we don't see Spalding Gray onstage again, except for a brief video...

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THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING Spalding Gray's widow shares his 'Stories' Kathleen Russo (below) created ''Stories Left to Tell'' because she wanted her late husband, Spalding Gray (above), ''to be remembered also for...

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'Now What?' : An Unexamined Life Wouldn't Be as Funny It was in "Swimming to Cambodia" that Spalding Gray, the late pioneer of the neurotic sit-down monologue, quested for the "perfect moment." Josh Lefkowitz, whose shaggy haircut and sunny...

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...introduction, the piece positively shivers with intimations of mortality. "Death seemed everywhere in Ireland," Gray broods as he recalls a trip there in which his family suffered a serious car crash and where he spotted various eerie omens,...

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...portions will be Saratoga Springs author James Howard Kunstler and Times Union Editor Rex Smith. Russo says Gray's legacy is the fact that "he invented the form." "When you ask these people (doing solo shows in New York) who inspired them,...

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