Word: gazzara
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...process is finding out what not to do, like indulging in excesses. I've seen more talent ruined by what I call indulgence ?Method acting where they all get together and act for each other in a test-tube atmosphere. Many people work marvelously that way?Gerry Page, Gazzara, Brando?...
Husbands. John Cassavetes' dynamic portrait of three middle-aged men on a desperate tear also featured some of the year's best acting by Ben Gazzara, Peter Falk and Cassavetes himself...
There is no plot to Husbands, just a premise. Archie (Peter Falk), Harry (Ben Gazzara) and Gus (Cassavetes himself) are three reluctantly middle-aging men who go off on a bender after the death of a friend. For two days they stay away from home, drinking, horsing around, trying to forget. But the carousing only reinforces their sense of loss and their feelings of entrapment. In a final act of rebellion, they fly off to London, do some gambling, pick up some girls and discover that instead of escaping, they have only come up against another boundary...
...convenient to speak of Husbands as Cassavetes' film, since he is its author as well as director and costar. The contributions made by Peter Falk and Ben Gazzara, though, must have been enormous. Cassavetes works in a very personal, freewheeling style that draws heavily on the inspiration of his actors. The performers are so supremely good in their roles that they wipe out any distinction between the actor and the character. The virtuoso feat may be unnoticed by audiences who prefer to assume that the three are merely playing themselves...
...YOUR LIFE (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). Julie Harris plays a fading novelist, Lucrece, who makes serious charges against her old friend Paul (Ben Gazzara) Bryan in "The Rape of Lucrece...