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    In 'Cyrano,' Haley Bennett's Roxanne is an 'outsider in an insider's body'

    by Michael Ordoña, Los Angeles Times Jan 12, 2022 3 minutes

    Edmond Rostand's "Cyrano de Bergerac" is a classic outsider tale. Cyrano is brilliant, a poet, a romantic and the greatest swordsman anyone knows — yet because of his abnormally large proboscis, he's the subject of ridicule (when out of earshot; who would dare insult him in front of his nose?). And he's doomed to loneliness: He believes the woman he deeply loves, a beauty who fits right in with society, Roxanne, could never love him. Though the two are close friends,

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