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Saturday, March 25, 2006 12:00 AM

Confessions of a utility actor

I'm not a star. I'm not even a "name." I'm just a workaday actor trying to make a living. And after 20 years of waiting for that big break, I'm ready to move on.
By Peter Birkenhead

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  • Saturday, March 25, 2006 12:53 PM

    Couldn't get a grilled soy tempeh with sprouts at J-Dawg's Burgers, could we?

    Yeah, I guess the [Chicago] theater ain't all it cracks itself up to be, but it does crack itself up a lot, hurting those who could help it most with its own idiotic myopia, its clannishness, its insistence on being marginal and out of step with where the country should be going.

    I think commenting on this sentence would merely be gilding the lily.

    —Marianna Trench Read Marianna Trench's other letters

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