virtual conversations in the office

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v: pope into nylon?
f: stop being random and disrespectful
v: flavia - that describes you too ... you are a gao-gao
f: indeed




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Spalding Gray's Monologues Spring to Life in Actors' Oratorio

Review by Jeremy Gerard
March 21 (Bloomberg) -- Spalding Gray was neither a great actor nor a great writer until he became both by inventing ``Spalding Gray'' the character.
Some familiarity with the two Grays is helpful but not essential to appreciating ``Stories Left to Tell,'' a dramatic oratorio woven from Gray's autobiographical monologues and other writings, now running in Greenwich Village.
``Spalding Gray'' was the star of ``Swimming to Cambodia,'' Gray's intimate account, by turns hilarious and unsettling, of his adventures in Thailand while filming ``The Killing Fields,'' in which he played an American consul in Cambodia. Jonathan Demme's film adaptation of ``Swimming'' brought Gray -- whose Yankee good looks and detached sardonic humor barely concealed a tortured soul --to a wide audience.
He was essentially a creature of the stage who came to life under a spotlight, usually sitting at a table reading from a notebook or index cards, telling stories in what seemed like a stream of consciousness but which was, in fact, meticulously researched and scripted: ``I came to know my life through telling it,'' as he says.

``Spalding Gray: Stories Left to Tell'' continues through May 13 at the Minetta Lane Theater, 18 Minetta Lane in Greenwich Village. Information: +1-212-307-7171