Age 55
Mustworthiness With a career like Irwin's. . .oh, wait, there is no career like Irwin's. The actor-writer-clown was Mr. Noodle on Sesame Street. He's written and performed a Tony-winning bluegrass-mime hybrid, Fool Moon. And now he's won raves and a best-actor Tony award for Broadway's revival of Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, where he faces off with Kathleen Turner in a three-act, three-hour marital duel that would put Zeus and Hera to shame.
The Hard Smell ''One day, Kathleen told me, 'It's hard to talk about this, but. . .your breath doesn't smell good.' It was shocking, the thought of being offensive. But I'm sure it did stink. I was holding everything in.''
How to Negotiate That Dense Albee Dialogue ''You can use any of the tired old metaphors — tightrope walking, doing a dance. But it remains true: You can't have your mind behind you.''
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