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...Greenwich Village, the son of an underground filmmaker and an actress. They divorced when he was 13. Downey was acting in his father's films-and partaking in his father's drugs-before he hit his teens. He learned his craft by osmosis. "I did the entire Sanford Meisner process just by hanging around and smoking weed in the stairways with my friends who had just gotten back from class," Downey says. "They'd tell me the exercises. It seemed like inevitably they wound up screaming and crying-screaming at each other and crying at what was screamed. I would...
DIED. VERNE MEISNER, 66, Wisconsin's polka king, known for his melodic Slovenian, or Cleveland-style, sound; of melanoma; in Milwaukee. In the Badger State, where polka is the official dance, Meisner started performing at age 11, gaining fans at taverns and festivals with a boost from a local disc jockey, Fritz the Plumber. Meisner recorded dozens of albums and wrote 60 songs, including the hit Memories of Vienna...
...unadulterated crap, but on the 365th, Buffett comes to town and we slip away to Margaritaville. Being a Parrothead isn't without its responsibilities, however. Like Gypsies in the Palace, Parrotheads know that the good times aren't free, that giving back is part of the Pascagoula Run. BETH MEISNER Yorktown...
DIED. SANFORD MEISNER, 91, master acting teacher; in Sherman Oaks, California. An original member of the seminal 1930s Group Theatre--which also nurtured teaching greats Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler and Robert Lewis--Meisner coached actors to interact convincingly and to project emotional believability. Among his many students: Gregory Peck, Diane Keaton, Robert Duvall, and directors Sidney Lumet and Sydney Pollack...
...Highlands and Sidney Kingsley's Pulitzer-prizewinning hospital drama Men in White. Its members included Actors John Garfield, Frances Farmer, Morris Carnovsky, Franchot Tone and Lee J. Cobb, Directors-to-Be Elia Kazan and Sidney Lumet, Theorists and Teachers Lee Strasberg, Stella Adler and Sanford Meisner...