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| | NYU > Office of Public Affairs > Ben Gazzara Discusses "My Life As an Actor" at NYU's Casa Italiana ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-16) |
 | | Ben Gazzara, the actor who originated the role of Brick in the Broadway production of Tennessee Williams’s Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, will discuss his life and work at New York University’s Casa Italiana Zerilli-Marimò, located at 24 W. 12th Street, on Tuesday, January 25, at 6 p.m. |
 | | The son of Sicilian immigrants, Gazzara, after his debut as Brick, spent the next 20 years working with such actors as Laurence Olivier, Shelley Winters, Orson Welles, Anna Magnani, Frank Sinatra, and Anthony Hopkins, among others. |
 | | Gazzara’s most recent films — Happiness, Buffalo 66, The Spanish Prisoner, and Dogville —; continue to shape the independent film tradition for new generations. |
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