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Article: Robards' gallery of characters made him respected, revered.(Knight Ridder Newspapers)
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- December 27, 2000
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They were, for the most part, losers _ men whose dreams and promise were long since vanquished by disappointment, drink, and weaknesses of the will and the flesh. But they remained inhabited by what they might have been; behind their despair and self-pity lay not merely an essential dignity but a mischievous irony and a prodigious gift of the gab. They did not go quietly into anyone's good night.
They were the characters created on stage by Jason Robards Jr., who died Tuesday of cancer in a Bridgeport, Conn., hospital at the age of 78. From his career-making part as the damned and driven Hickey in a 1956 revival of O'Neill's "The Iceman Cometh" to his last New ...