I met Charles Lane once, at a celebrity golf tournament back in El Paso. We very briefly discussed being part of Capra's stock company, as well as more recent classics such as "The Little Dragons."
He obviously had his admirers; Michael Laughlin cast him in both of his 80's classics, "Strange Behavior" and "Strange Invaders." (Both co-written by Bill Condon, oddly enough.)
Who was the second one? I knew about Beverly Sills. (I was really irked at her some years back when I was taping a concert, and she started talking before the end of Ravel's "Mother Goose Suite." Nothing she had to say was worth missing the climax of the piece.)
(I was really irked at her some years back when I was taping a concert, and she started talking before the end of Ravel's "Mother Goose Suite." Nothing she had to say was worth missing the climax of the piece.)
Not necessarily her fault; she was probably in a booth somewhere, following somebody else's cues, and they jumped it.
I'm sorry to report breaking news of another tragedy in the opera world -- Jerry Hadley is mortally wounded in an apparent suicide attempt. No tenor jokes, please.
I was searching around for Charles Lane as Homer Bedloe in Petticoat Junction and found this. I just liked the dialogue between Homer Bedloe and Uncle Joe. Homer Bedloe was frustrated a lot on that show. Kudzu didn't appear in any of the local SF Bay area newspapers I get but it did appear in some of the newspapers my family received back in Kansas.(Sorry if you received this three or four times. My brain is obviously not working quite right this morning.)
I'm not too terribly upset about Charles Lane. I mean, 102! But it's very sad about Doug Marlette who would have had who knows how many years ahead of him. The local paper dropped "Kudzu" some time back, but there were always some of us who hoped it might return.
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Date: 2007-07-11 03:54 pm (UTC)He obviously had his admirers; Michael Laughlin cast him in both of his 80's classics, "Strange Behavior" and "Strange Invaders." (Both co-written by Bill Condon, oddly enough.)
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