Platoon, Dafoe was at the Performing Garage, the Wooster Group’s home base in Soho, doing double duty onstage as acid guru Timothy Leary and a persecuted Puritan in When the word came that he’d scored an Oscar nomination for Our Town), and in the nude (as part of a grainy stag film). Route 1 & 9, which featured Dafoe in blackface (doing a Pigmeat Markham vaudeville routine), in tears (on a video version of Thorton Wilder’s In fact, he was holed up at The Kitchen, New York’s legendary avant-garde showcase, where he was appearing nightly with experimental theater troupe the Wooster Group in its controversial performance When Platoon hit the movie screens this past Christmas, Dafoe was far from Malibu. He’s hardly your typical male star, though. Devil or angel, Dafoe has joined Hollywood’s new breed of funky leading men. Elias, he was an inspiration to his men only because he’d been through hell and back. In To Live and Die in L.A., he was an arty androgyne with a heart of darkness. Willem Dafoe’s looks could kill – lips born to sneer, the eyes of a cobra with cheekbones.
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