People: Feb. 23, 1998

THE GEL OF HUMAN KINDNESS

A Macbeth with slicked-back hair, a suave tan and a really self-important political ambition? Maybe yes. While Alec Baldwin prepares to play the lead in New York City's Joseph Papp Public Theater's production of Macbeth, ANGELA BASSETT is working on the female lead. Feeding nickels into a pay phone in a very un-Lady Macbeth manner, Bassett says Baldwin is losing the Brylcreem for the part. "He's going to shave it down. He's playing with it today," she says. "The guys have been joking that he looks like Kevin Bacon." The show has already sold out its...

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