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teacher extraordinaire: Uta Hagen

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She was, in short, a very fucked up woman.

What woman isn’t?

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clean up: She was, in short, a very fucked up woman. What woman isn’t?

Sad to say, Starmie, I’m beginning to agree with you, but then again, my heart’s still flat as a pancake. Tao te Carl "It takes a village to have an idiot." – Carl (c) 2003 (Kudos to Cap’n Jim Wyatt for this link) BEFORE you ask a dumb-ass question here…http://www.speakeasy.org/~neilco/bart.gif

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Very sad, but then again, she was no angel in life. I worked with Leticia, and this poor woman not only had to live up to her mother’s reputation, but she had to deal with this woman’s…idiosyncracies. She was, in short, a very fucked up woman. up: – Hide quoted text — Show quoted text -NEW YORK (AP) – Uta Hagen, the actress whose brutal, braying performance of Martha in the original production of Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” galvanized Broadway in the 1960s, has died. She was 84. Hagen died Wednesday at her Manhattan home, said Barnetta Carter, managing director of HB Studios, the acting school she helped found. The actress was a versatile performer, at home not only in Shakespeare, Chekhov and Shaw, but in plays by Albee, Clifford Odets and Tennessee Williams. Hagen also was a dedicated acting teacher, running HB Studios with her husband, Herbert Berghof, who died in 1990. But in was as Martha in Albee’s corrosive 1962 tale of a combative marriage that she gained her biggest Broadway success. In a recent interview with The New York Times, Albee called Hagen “a profoundly truthful actress” and “a dedicated and demanding teacher.” “I should add,” Albee said, “she was a great anti-hypocrite, and a superb cook – not a bad friend to have.” Hagen also took on such roles as Georgie in Odets’ “The Country Girl” and, after Jessica Tandy left the role, Blanche DuBois opposite Marlon Brando in “A Streetcar Named Desire.” She received a Tony Award for lifetime achievement in 1999 and was awarded the National Medal of the Arts in 2002. The daughter of an art history professor and opera singer, Hagen was born in Germany and moved to Wisconsin when she was 7. She left college to pursue acting and made her debut in a 1937 production of “Hamlet.” Hagen’s first Broadway production was “The Seagull” in 1938 with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. She played Nina. Hagen met her first husband, Jose Ferrer, while acting opposite him in “The Latitude of Love” in Ridgefield, Conn. She later appeared with him on Broadway in “Othello,” with Paul Robeson as the title character, Ferrer as Iago and Hagen as Desdemona. They were married for a decade and had a daughter, Leticia Ferrer. Hagen then married Berghof and the couple together founded the HB Studios, a performing arts training school, in Greenwich Village. In addition to her daughter, Hagen is survived by granddaughter and a great-granddaughter. Associated Press writer Elizabeth LeSure contributed to this report. http://my.aol.com/news/news_story.psp?type=4&cat=0800&id=200401150956…

Tao te Carl "It takes a village to have an idiot." – Carl (c) 2003 (Kudos to Cap’n Jim Wyatt for this link) BEFORE you ask a dumb-ass question here…http://www.speakeasy.org/~neilco/bart.gif

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NEW YORK (AP) – Uta Hagen, the actress whose brutal, braying performance of Martha in the original production of Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” galvanized Broadway in the 1960s, has died. She was 84. Hagen died Wednesday at her Manhattan home, said Barnetta Carter, managing director of HB Studios, the acting school she helped found. The actress was a versatile performer, at home not only in Shakespeare, Chekhov and Shaw, but in plays by Albee, Clifford Odets and Tennessee Williams. Hagen also was a dedicated acting teacher, running HB Studios with her husband, Herbert Berghof, who died in 1990. But in was as Martha in Albee’s corrosive 1962 tale of a combative marriage that she gained her biggest Broadway success. In a recent interview with The New York Times, Albee called Hagen “a profoundly truthful actress” and “a dedicated and demanding teacher.” “I should add,” Albee said, “she was a great anti-hypocrite, and a superb cook – not a bad friend to have.” Hagen also took on such roles as Georgie in Odets’ “The Country Girl” and, after Jessica Tandy left the role, Blanche DuBois opposite Marlon Brando in “A Streetcar Named Desire.” She received a Tony Award for lifetime achievement in 1999 and was awarded the National Medal of the Arts in 2002. The daughter of an art history professor and opera singer, Hagen was born in Germany and moved to Wisconsin when she was 7. She left college to pursue acting and made her debut in a 1937 production of “Hamlet.” Hagen’s first Broadway production was “The Seagull” in 1938 with Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne. She played Nina. Hagen met her first husband, Jose Ferrer, while acting opposite him in “The Latitude of Love” in Ridgefield, Conn. She later appeared with him on Broadway in “Othello,” with Paul Robeson as the title character, Ferrer as Iago and Hagen as Desdemona. They were married for a decade and had a daughter, Leticia Ferrer. Hagen then married Berghof and the couple together founded the HB Studios, a performing arts training school, in Greenwich Village. In addition to her daughter, Hagen is survived by granddaughter and a great-granddaughter. Associated Press writer Elizabeth LeSure contributed to this report. http://my.aol.com/news/news_story.psp?type=4&cat=0800&id=200401150956…

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