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Carolyn Laurie "Carol" Kane (born June 18, 1952) is an American actress. Kane has worked on the stage, on the screen and in television. She appeared on the television series Taxi in the early 1980s, as the wife of the character played by Andy Kaufman. She received two Emmy Awards for her work. She has played the character of Madame Morrible in the musical Wicked, both in regional productions and on Broadway from 2005 to 2009.
Kane was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of Joy, a jazz singer, teacher, dancer, and pianist, and Michael Kane, an architect who worked for the World Bank. Her family is Jewish, her grandparents having emigrated from Russia. Her parents divorced when she was 12 years old. She attended the Cherry Lawn School, a progressive boarding school in Darien, Connecticut, until 1965. She attended the Professional Children's School, in New York City, and made her professional theatre debut in a 1966 production of The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, starring Tammy Grimes.
Kane is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Simka Dahblitz-Gravas, wife of Latka Gravas (Andy Kaufman), on the American television series Taxi, from 1981 to 1983, and also for her role as Allison Portchnik in Woody Allen's Annie Hall. Kane earned two Emmy Awards for her work in the series and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in the film Hester Street. She also appeared in The Princess Bride (1987) and Scrooged (1988), with Bill Murray, in which Variety called her "unquestionably [the] pic's comic highlight."
Crazy by your standards
Won't apply
Oh how lonely
This poor day
He says take me to your leader now please
We've not much time
Cause I've got a final protest
Yes, it must be heard
Well I would not come much closer, officer
Unless you're sure
Cause I'm doused in gasoline
This match is itching
To burn
Sure was more
Forever know that he had cause
Bout time someone took the fall
That your movement and his life someday was
Understood
And his reasons were his own
But for the jester
Oh but what most
That eft?last cry never
To be heard
Well this is his contribution to your future
I offer you
My life
My change
My sacrifice
My good name
My good name
I know you'll find a way to
Form a meaning from my demise
Oh but maybe from the news someone will
Wonder why
Or maybe this will open up their eyes
I offer you
My love
My change
I sacrifice
My good name
I take my life
Communicate the shame
I beg you please
Do something
Something