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I wanted to be a writer before I wanted to be an actor. He learned acting on the burlesque stage. So it was more like sketch acting than what I admired in acting. There wasn't an internal process which appealed to me more. When he was doing Guys and Dolls, he did it for two years on Broadway. And when I was doing MASH, he came on the show playing a character.
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