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St. Niles Of The Collapse: Niles Crane As Female Mystic Saint
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St. Niles Of The Collapse: Niles Crane As Female Mystic Saint

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Daniel Lavery
Oct 09, 2019
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Someone recently mentioned that David Hyde Pierce has the most distinctive skull in all of show business, and I think they’re absolutely right. As Niles Crane, he often looks less like a sitcom character and more like a Jules Feiffer illustration from The Phantom Tollbooth, sketched out rapidly in ink and then left to his own devices. As substantial as …

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