Sleeping Muse and Falling Rocket

 

  Mark Rolston, who played Bogs in The Shawshank Redemption, once toured the country as Richard II.

 In Alfred Hitchcock's The Wrong Man, Henry Fonda goes in search of witnesses to clear his name of a crime of which he has been falsely accused. At one point, he knocks on an apartment door only to be told by the giggling girls who answer that the man he seeks is dead. Those little girls were making their sceen debuts in the film: Bonnie Franklin and Tuesday Weld.

 "'Oh Lord,' I cried, 'if I could write a book half as fine as this, but set it on Mars, how incredible that would be!'"

  Group Theatre Company, circa 1938. Art Smith, Walter Fried, Sanford Meisner, Ruth Nelson, Lee J. Cobb, Michael Gordon, Leif Erikson, Roman Bohnen, Morris Carnovsky, Kermit Bloomgarden, Luther Adler, Phoebe Brand, Harold Clurman, Irwin Shaw, Eleanor Lynn, Frances Farmer, Robert Lewis and Elia Kazan (front far right).

Singer of such songs as "Hello It's Me" and "Bang the Drum All Day," producer of such albums as Meat Loaf's Bat Out of Hell and XTC's magnificent Skylarking, also scored four episodes of Pee Wee's Playhouse!

 

 Kurt Vonnegut, during an Australian radio interview in 2005: "People have asked me, you know, 'Who would you rather be, than yourself?', and Vonnegut replied "Jerry Orbach, without a question...I talked to him one time, and he's adorable."