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GINIA BELLAFANTE'S PAEAN TO THE PRESENT Hollywood crop of young actors, ``Generation X-Cellent'' [Cinema, Feb. 27], devastatingly illustrates the debasement of currency in talent and beauty of today's actresses compared with their counterparts of the 1930s and '40s. Can the dim-bulb performance of Marisa Tomei in Only You (1994) stand up to Carole Lombard's luminosity in My Man Godfrey (1936)? How can Winona Ryder, Uma Thurman, Sarah Jessica Parker and Drew Barrymore compete with Rita Hayworth's Gilda, Gene Tierney's Laura, Ingrid Bergman's Ilsa in Casablanca and Merle Oberon's Cathy in Wuthering...
...realize the harm of this term until I read your article on new young stars, with its chart updating the careers of the stars of St. Elmo's Fire. What I don't like is that the media is once again trying to label actors. Call them Generation X-Cellent now, so that in 10 years you can write the story of what ever happened to those ex-Generation Xers who have since been replaced by Generation Next-ers. It is hard enough to do good work in this industry. The pressure of the label ``hot young actor...
...under his clerical robes and Rasputin beard, with a pneumatic grace and, except for a deficient malevolent laugh, his voice is the silky articulator of a deft cartoon of nastiness. When, after Emerson and Levi's "Living in Sin" number Mr. First Nighter lets loose his battle cry ("Ex-cellent!), there is no dissent here or anywhere...
...discussion period after his speech, Harrington answered questions knowledgeably and realistically. At the same time he displayed his unmistakable conviction that something must be done at once. He refuses to reject any idea, no matter how implausible it sounds, until it has been tried. As an example, Harrington cellent and creative cooks, for instance, could be paid to teach other poor housewives how to use the meager food they receive. The cooks would get a little much-needed money and the poor would eat better...
...Eleventh Hour (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Wendell Corey is a psychiatrist in this ex cellent program; this episode deals with a soldier who deserted the Army in World War II and has been brought home for court-martial 17 years later...