Reverend Billy For Mayor: Is He For Real?
…thirties, he finally settled down as an actor, writer, and producer in the San Francisco theater scene. It was there that Talen met Sidney Lanier, an Episcopal minister whose own antics were dramatized in the play-turned-film The Night of the Iguana, by his cousin, Tennessee Williams. At the time, remembers Lanier, he was “mostly traveling in the opposite direction from the Church.” After seeing Talen perform, Lanier took him out to lunch and said…
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