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March 08, 2004

Spalding Gray, in memoriam

I'll be the first to admit it: The first time I saw My Dinner with Andre, the movie bored me to sleep. The prospect of two men talking for two hours does not a movie make. Or so I thought. Imagine my surprise a few months later when I found myself riveted by Gray's Anatomy, an even unlikelier setup for a movie: a one-man monologue about eyeballs by a middle-aged white guy I'd never heard of. But then, one-sided conversation was one of Spalding Gray's greatest gifts (missing since January, Gray's body was discovered in New York's East River on March 7), and I'll always remember him as the man who showed me that compelling content, not razzle-dazzle pyrotechnics is the thing that makes movies great.

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