Word: actorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...balled up on a bus for a three-hour predawn ride from New York to Massachusetts to collect signatures for state-campaign-finance reform. The coffee's awful, and his cell phone doesn't work. "We should have a working phone, even if you have to FedEx one," the actor growls as he tosses the offending cellular to an aide. Maybe he'd be in a better mood if he were in jeans and sweaters like the other volunteers. But Baldwin is twisting about in a tight gray suit. Comparing himself to the rancid glop that fishermen use as bait...
...chum he is. From the moment he enters the Greek cultural center that serves as the tour's home base, people are after him, begging for autographs (Baldwin obliges) and introducing their wannabe-actor friends (Baldwin is polite). It could be worse. He could be younger brother Billy, who is along for the tour and is the center of a permanent amoeba of giggling girls. But it could be better. He could be older sister Beth, who sits unnoticed amid her famous brothers. "They have sisters?" asks someone in the crowd. "We're known as Nothing and Nobody," jokes Beth...
...should The Crimson review campus theater productions? The recent criticism of The Crimson's Oct. 24 review of Macbeth brought this controversy to a head. Many letters criticized the review of the lead actor's performance, deeming the review too personal, overly critical or too harsh...
...exhudes two distinct talents: the ability to play a number of extremely different characters, and the ability to make each of them as delightfully absurd as possible. The script itself a tight-laced tango of double entendred and hysterically ironic scenarios, could only be mastered by a group of actor with impeccable comic timing and greaversatility. Particularly notable are Jame A. Carmichael '01 as the dry Lt. Co-Korn; Michael P. Davidson '00 as the stereotypical Italian brother; Mattias Frey '01 as the timid Major Major Matthew E. Johnson '99 as the boomin Col. Cathcart; Ollie M. Lewis...
Hoffman is superb, underplaying even the punchiest lines for maximum effect. A spotlight line such as, "You're the best show in town, Sam," might have amounted to little more than a melodramatic leer in the hands of a less talented actor; Hoffman delivers it quietly, almost swallowing the words, and the effect is chilling. To its own detriment, the script fails to learn from his example. Writers Tom Matthews and Eric Williams, journalists themselves, cannot resist hammering home their message. "I don't want to cross the line," Brackett tells his boss; Lou, at the beginning of the movie...