Best bio ever!

i noticed that bio when i went to drs too!

Yeah, Shanley responds with lightning speed. I e-mailed him and got a response within an hour. He's awesome.

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Doesn't Christopher Sieber's bio say something along the lines of "Never been on 'Law & Order'"??

Yeah, that's what really got me. Marc Shaiman also lists all the times he's been nominated for an Oscar, and has never won. My friend used to have hers like a dictionary definition. Something like...

Emjoy Gavino (Patty): noun. Starving Asian artist.Also look under: Delia (Searching 4 Y), Liat (South Pacific)

Hers was a bit odd for me, but I LOVE interesting bios.

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juliet. you win. enough said.

I love bios. I think it's fascinating to see what other roles an actor has played.

The best bio ever is Bronson Pichot's in "Putting It Together." I wish I had a copy of the program with me so I could post it. It's hilarious.

From the FUNNY GIRL program (1965):

Barbra Streisand (Fanny Brice): In addition to having appeared off-Broadway, on Broadway and away-from-Broadway, in nightclubs, on television and on the concert stage, Barbra Streisand is the recipient of CUE magazine's Entertainer of the Year Award. A top recording star, a talented interior decorator, dress designer and portrait painter, she also plays field hockey. Her performance in the musical I CAN GET IT FOR YOU WHOLESALE stopped the show, and was much admired by the critics, the public, and the show's leading man, Elliot Gould, who married her. Barbra is a follower of Eastern philosophy and cooking but also favors TV dinners on occasion. She is a reknowned collector of antigue clothes shoes and fans. Her favorite flower is the gardenia since it is the only scent that can never be captured. Her favorite day of the week is Tuesday, since she spends part of each Tuesday thoughout the year to stringing crystal beads which are sold in a Vermont general store. She knows how to make coffee ice cream and to fix her own hair. For more personal information, write to her mother.

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i like that barbra one!

I also had to take a break reading Patti LuPone's one and a half page bio in Matters of the Heart.

Too bad Babs takes herself too seriously to right a bio like that now.

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The Spamalot bios are the best! They're all hilarious. I love the fake ones, too. My mom thought they were real at first.

Here's John Patrick Stanley's

"JOHN PATRICK SHANLEY (Playwright). John Patrick Shanley is from the Bronx. He was thrown out of St. Helena's kindergarten. Hew was banned from St. Anthony's hot lunch program for life. He was expelled from Cardinal Spellman High School. He was placed on academic probation by New York University and instructed to appear before a tribunal if he wished to return. When asked why he had been treated in this way by all these institutions, he burst into tears and said he had no idea. Then he went in the United States Marine Corps. He did fine. He's still doing okay."

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