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...greenest actor in Hollywood...
Even for sophisticated New York theatergoers, there's nothing like a little onstage nudity to get the blood flowing. Even better, a little nudity involving perhaps the best-known child actor in the world. Daniel Radcliffe, who has played Harry Potter in five (going on six) hugely popular movies, made his stage debut last year in a London revival of Equus - Peter Shaffer's acclaimed 1973 play about a stable boy who, in an inexplicable act of violence, has blinded six horses with a metal spike. The big news, however, was not the first glimpse of Radcliffe's acting chops...
...real revelation from Equus, which has just opened at Broadway's Broadhurst Theatre, is that Radcliffe proves himself a strong, confident and convincing stage actor. As the troubled 17-year-old Alan Strang, he holds his compact, still-smallish body straight and still, his hands thrust down at his side - a polite, almost stolid youth who, as his story unfolds through the prodding of the psychiatrist tasked with finding the motivation for his horrific crime, is transported into religio-sexual ecstasy in the presence of his equine gods. In a Broadway season when neophytes from Katie Holmes to Cedric...
...Confessions of a Dangerous Mind,” fills Victor’s slime-caked shoes with appropriately intelligent and acerbic abandon. Rockwell excels at playing the sane man on the ship of fools, and it’s a testament to his talent as an actor that Victor flirts with his own psychological undoing in the film’s climax.Anjelica Huston gives a typically fantastic performance as Victor’s senile mother. The tumultuous relationship between the adolescent Victor and Huston is one of the few things that Gregg seems to get right. These flashbacks...
...western like Appaloosa, never takes a while to come. The best thing about the picture, which Harris also directed and co-wrote, is its respect for the strengths of a film form that dominated Hollywood 50 years ago but today is made only when a pedigreed actor like Harris (or Kevin Costner or Tommy Lee Jones) insists...