Happy birthday Wallace Shawn 🎂
📷 Catherine McGann, 1997
"I’m trying to write plays that are smarter than I am. I don’t fully understand them."
Wallace Shawn & Louis Malle on the set of Crackers
A marvellous photograph by Mary Ellen Mark, San Francisco, 1982
Wallace Shawn, William Finley, Alan Arkin & Austin Pendleton in Marshall Brickman's Simon, c. 1980.
The still photographer on the set was Adger W. Cowans.
Wallace Shawn & André Gregory in Louis Malle's wonderful film My Dinner with André, 1981. Shawn & Gregory wrote the screenplay.
The still photographer on the set was Diana Michener.
Larry Riley, Donald Sutherland, Wallace Shawn, Sean Penn & Trinidad Silva in Louis Malle's Crackers, 1984. I've never seen this; I need to track it down!
Morgan Renard was the still photographer on the set; this is a marvellous shot!
Highly recommended on Wallace Shawn's birthday:
his #PhoneCallFromPaul conversation with Paul @holdengraber
lithub.com/wallace-shawn-…
"In my own mind I’m just a writer with a bizarre activity - acting - that I undertake."
📷 Susana Raab, 2008
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