Anna Deavere Smith's new one-woman show bills itself as being about health care, but the truth is that 'Let Me Down Easy' is mostly about the grimmer subject of death and dying.
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In life, I'm like Molly Brown. I've had tough times along the way and gone through experiences that many women have gone through. But I ain't down yet.
Dying, dying, someone told me just recently, dying is easy. Living is hard. for everyone.
Women know the financial, social and physical costs of not having access to basic health care.
Everything's harder for women: harder to start, to stay employed, to run a life with a family.
I'd like to think Helen very much understood what it was to be disadvantaged in the medical field. And that that was something that she never let dictate her choices.
I'm not interested in being easy anymore. Readable, yes. Easy, no.
A woman's best protection is a little money of her own.
I love playing a woman suffering, thinking about the choices that she's made and obviously wanting more. It's classic.
We can't let people down when they can't get any medical care, when they're sick and don't have money to go to a doctor. You help them.
Heath Ledger's recent death, like that of River Phoenix, was handled with great care by the press. Anna Nicole Smith's not so much.