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Joan Hackett |
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Former model Joan Hackett diligently
studied acting under Lee Strasberg; proof that her diligence
paid off was her critically acclaimed performance in the 1961
Broadway production Call Me By My Rightful Name. A versatile
actress who successfully combined brains with beauty (not always
the case with ingenues of the 1960s), Hackett made her film
debut in 1966's The Group. Perhaps her best film performance
was as the lonely frontier wife who is briefly attracted to
drifter Charlton Heston in Will Penny (1968). Hackett's TV work
included recurring roles on the dramatic weekly The Defenders
in the early 1960s and the situation comedy Another Day in 1978.
Ravaged by cancer in her last months, Hackett could take some
small comfort in the knowledge that her penultimate movie appearance
in Only When I Laugh (1981) had won her a Golden Globe award
and an Oscar nomination. Joan Hackett was at one time the wife
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Martin Mull |
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Martin Mull intended to become a painter
when he enrolled in the Rhode Island School of Design, but his
Scaramouche-like sense of the ridiculous led to a career as
a nightclub comedian. The deceptively conservative-looking Mull
is widely recognized as one of the most accomplished satirists
in show business. Even before he gained TV fame, Mull's barbed
comedy albums had earned him a following on the college campus
circuit. His first major TV assignment was Mary Hartman Mary
Hartman (1976-77), where he was seen as Garth Gimble, an ill-tempered
wife beater who ended up being impaled by a Christmas tree.
When Mary Hartman Mary Hartman producer Norman Lear developed
the spin-off series Fernwood Tonight in 1977, Mull was brought
back as glad-handing emcee Barth Gimble, Garth's twin brother.
In films since 1978, Mull is often called upon to portray an
underhanded or vacillating CEO (vide Mister Mom). His well-groomed
mustache and tweedy appearance served him well as Colonel Mustard
in the 1985 movie version of the venerable board game Clue.
Back on television, Mull has etched such indelible comic characterizations
as Leon Carp, Roseanne Connor's gay boss, on Roseanne (1988-
), and the leading roles of Martin Crane in Domestic Life (1984)
and Dr. Doug Lambert in His & Hers (1990). In collaboration
with Allan Rucker, Martin Mull was the creator/writer of a devastating
series of lampoonish "cultural studies" books and TV specials,
under the blanket title The History of White People in America.
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