Word: stagehand
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...Afraid of Virginia Woolf? But his greatest role was the one that both he and his audience seemed to enjoy best: Richard Burton, the romantic and joyous spirit. When he died of a cerebral hemorrhage at the comparatively youthful age of 58, it was as if some clumsy stagehand had missed his cue and dropped the curtain before the performance had really come...
...beginning, and half the fun is telling one sex from the other. David Engel, for example, was a football player in the film of The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas. In La Cage he is Hanna from Hamburg, a blond beauty with a taste for sadomasochism. "A stagehand in Boston saw me in my wig, leotards and whip," says Engel, "and said, 'Honey, you can whip me any time...
...burly figure standing calmly on the podium of a darkened opera house pit bears little resemblance to the conventionally glamorous image of a famous conductor. At 205 Ibs. and standing less than 5 ft. 10 in., he is built more like a stagehand than an aristocratic maestro, and his round face, capped by a corona of curly hair, is a world away from the suave image of a Leonard Bernstein. Yet as his baton comes slashing down with swift, chopping strokes, he is abruptly transformed into a figure of grace. Cuing the orchestra, effortlessly guiding singers through an opera...
...show. Viewers delirious to watch Al Pacino, Leonard Nimoy and 34 others don white tie, topper and tails and kick a leg with the Rockettes will have to see them through the eyes of a young Rockette, sidelined by a twisted ankle, as she is comforted by an aged stagehand while the show goes...
Richard Queen, a stagehand and spear-carrier in Hostage, was the first to benefit from Mission Innoculation. Today, Queen is strolling the streets of Geneva, buying shoes for the first time in nine months and seeing a doctor for debriefing...