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...White was drawn to writing and drama at an early age, inspired by a second-grade teacher whose son was playwright and actor Sam Shepard....
...Families feature prominently: Philip Seymour Hoffman led its Loman clan on Broadway in Death of a Salesman, and its Glass Menagerie upped the Wingfields’ dysfunction, exacerbating both Tom’s homosexuality and Laura...
...After Warr’s wife (Laura Fraser) dies of cancer, he is charged with raising their young son (Nicholas McAnulty)....
...The one witty line in an early scene – “We’re not in a Sam Shepard play” – comes back to haunt us. We think, “If only they were”....
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