Noni Hazlehurst’s splendid new memoir ‘Dropping the Mask’

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Dropping the Mask
Noni Hazlehurst
HarperCollins, $34.99

Noni Hazlehurst is a special kind of actor and has written a special kind of memoir. She recently performed Daniel Keene’s Mother, burning up the stage with histrionic power as a hopeless alcoholic woman, self-maimed and self-hating,…