The Independent - London, January 8th, 1995
HE SLUMPS in the sofa and asks a question. "Who in the 20th century has been world famous as a soloist in mime?"
"Who?"
"I ask you the question. Who?"
"You?"
"Absolutely. It is the truth. You spoke the truth. What I did as a one-man show throughout the world, no one can do again in the 20th century." (A beat.) "Maybe in the 21st. I don't know."
Marcel Marceau sits in a tiny room at the Marcel Marceau School of International Mime, near the Place de la Rpublique in Paris. He's 71 and wrapped in a sheepskin jacket. He looks androgynous, like an old crone: his fluffy grey hair crowning an anc...
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