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Renegade Robbins

Tim Robbins spied \”Mephisto,\” the Nazi-era play based on Klaus Mann\’s 1936 novel about an actor who pandered to the Nazis to advance his career, while rifling through a box of books on his way out of an English-language bookstore in Paris last March. The actor-writer-activist, then on location with Jonathan Demme\’s film, \”The Truth About Charlie,\” was searching for plays to direct at the Actors\’ Gang, the boldly original Los Angeles troupe he\’d co-founded with UCLA peers in 1981.

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