Carol Burnett, The Cutup Who Was Cut Out For Greatness

The Washington Post | December 7, 2003| | Copyright

Carol Burnett has an infectious laugh; it follows that her tears are perhaps infectious too. Laughter is something she has given millions of people for dozens of years, while the tears were hers to shed in private. She's survived and triumphed, clinging to her dignity and exercising what long ago proved to be a brilliantly prodigious talent.

"I cannot complain," she says. "Sometimes I'm asked, do I have any regrets, and no. No. To know that whatever it is will pass, that you are not going to be in that tunnel forever, is the way to survive it. 'This is what it is right now, but it won't ...

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