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At his classes in the technique of acting, Lee laid down the rules, supervised the first exercises. These were largely concerned with the actor’s arousing his inner temperament. The essential and rather simple technique, which has since then been complicated by teachers of acting who seek to make t…

Now don’t believe what follows. Don’t believe that the month of May, which had already passed, and which is my favorite month because it is the burst of spring and the time of hope and promise, was three months long that summer, that it was May all summer that summer. The air of the place that May …

Molly had made up her mind in the first days of our acquaintance that I was gifted and bedeviled—and the man for her. She made it her duty on earth to encourage, protect, support, and—in the end—tolerate me in whatever I did. It nearly killed her, but she did not waver from her self-imposed duty, n…

I can recall nights that spring when at two or three in the morning, dead drunk, I’d be leaning across the sill of my open window and crying in great, coarse-throat jags. I didn’t know what was wrong with me. Despite my new interest in the backstage crafts, I was living a life without satisfaction …

His apartment was dark, and it did indeed look as if a life had just ended there. Over two great slugs of Scotch, I asked and he told me what had happened to the “big” athletes of our day, men I’d admired who’d had jobs on Wall Street waiting for them after they graduated. But their scores “downtow…