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For deaf actor, “Only Murders” saved a dark time

James Caverly’s acting career was zipping along neatly.
He’d done shows everywhere – Boston and Baltimore and Berkeley, Ithaca, NY, and Washington, D.C. and more. Now it was time to live in the center of the theater world.
And then? “I moved to New York City, believe it or not, two weeks before the Covid-19 pandemic hit …. All of a sudden, the entire industry just collapsed.”
He was deaf and unemployed … and somehow, it worked out. A key episode of “Only Murders in the Building” (shown here) – rerunning at 9 p.m. Jan. 16 on ABC – brought new life. Read more…