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| • | "When the producers of Agnes of God, the forthcoming drama, were negotiating with Lee Remick to return to Broadway after an absence of 16 years, they neglected to ask her an important question. The play's author, John Pielmeier, stipulated in the script that Miss Remick's character, a psychiatrist, 'is never without a cigarette, except in her monologues.' In one script reference to smoking, Geraldine Page, who portrays a mother superior, says to Miss Remick: 'Would you mind not smoking?' Miss Remick replies, 'Yes, I'm sorry, I should have asked if it bothered you', but instead of extinguishing her cigarette, she merely waves the smoke away. The question the producers forgot to ask Miss Remick was, of course, was she a smoker, and they gave the delicate job of finding out to Michael Lindsay-Hogg, the play's director. 'I was relieved to find that indeed Lee has the smoking habit. Smoking is such a basic part of th e character as written that she would have been faced with having to fake smoking throughout, which would be extremely difficult to do, or learning to smoke for the role', he said.", New York Times , Feb. 13, '82 |