All his life he has relentlessly refused to treat himself as a tragedy and is furious when anybody regards him as a cute freak or calls him "kid." It bugs me green, he says, when people assume I am less than human because I'm less than human size. Once a woman took him into her lap and stroked him like a child. He bit her-- because I'm a man, he angrily explained.

"I like Downey's partly because most of the time nobody stares at me when there are 48 other people in the room better known than I. When anybody does sneak a look at me, I take it to mean they recognize me from the show. Whether this is right or not, I pretend it is."

After curtain, strain and exhaustion tense Dunn's face. He is on stage most of the play [The Ballad of the Sad Cafe] in a role requiring constant, spiderlike movement.

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