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Viva La Lassalle!: Veteran actor and stage director Jacques Lassalle has been named to head the prestigious French theater company Comedie Francaise. He succeeds Antoine Vitez, who died in April. Lassalle, 54, has directed the National Theater of Strasbourg since 1983. He said that he would maintain the 1990-91 program of performances planned by Vitez.
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