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Acting is a trick word invented in the festival of Dionysus, before Christ, in Greece at a fertility festival. That's where theatre came from: a fertility festival. No women were allowed. All the men played all the parts.

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Gary Busey
Age: 80
Born: 1944
Born: June 29
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