Monologuist SPALDING GRAY. Since 1979 he's been performing monologues about his life and anxieties before audiences: "Swimming to Cambodia" was about the Vietnam war and his acting part in the film "The Killing Fields," "Monster in a Box" was about writing/vacation and Hollywood, and "Gray's Anatomy" was about an eye ailment. In all, GRAY has written and performed 15 monologues. His latest is considered his most confessional, "It's a Slippery Slope" about the breakup of his marriage, an affair, and the birth of his first child. In a New York Times review, Peter Marks writes "with a baby to distract him, the monologuist seems to have begun a dialogue. It's a hopeful omen in a clear-eyed and life-affirming performance piece." (THIS INTERVIEW CONTINUES INTO THE SECOND HALF OF THE
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