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Hopkins, of course. No other actor of his generation need apply. Alan Bates, Albert Finney, Ian McKellen, Derek Jacobi -- each brings the handsomely monogrammed baggage of an outsize personality. They would be too big for the role, tell too much. Hopkins is just the man for this. For much of his career, as a prissy Richard the Lionheart in The Lion in Winter (his first film, 1968) or the Rupert Murdoch-like press baron in the 1985 play Pravda, he had his own suitcase of mannerisms: the clipped elocution, the run-on sentence, all the pensive ahhs and umms...
...always, the West End is also a showcase for revivals: Our Town with Alan Alda and Robert Sean Leonard; Becket, with Derek Jacobi as the saintly bishop and Robert Lindsay as his carousing King; Tartuffe, with Paul Eddington as the dithery paterfamilias turned acolyte to a charlatan and Felicity Kendal as the saucy, commonsensical maid in a cheerily broad staging, almost willfully devoid of undertone or relevance, by Sir Peter Hall, founder of the Royal Shakespeare Company...
Nielsen is standing firm. We've checked out the people meters, they say, and found no methodological problems. "We've been at this long enough to be able to reach the conclusion that the audience decline is a real one," says a top Nielsen executive, William Jacobi. Still, the company is continuing to study the mystery and will issue a new report in the next week...
...TENTH MAN (CBS, Dec. 4, 9 p.m. EST). Anthony Hopkins and Derek Jacobi lead a blue-chip British cast in Graham Greene's story about a French lawyer, imprisoned by the Nazis during World War II, who bargains to save his skin...
...Jacobi, a Shakespearean best known in the U.S. for the title role in the PBS mini-series I, Claudius, again employs fidgety mannerisms. But Turing emerges distinctly in his fierce, futile independence. Although joined by fine, mostly British actors -- Jenny Agutter, Michael Gough and Rachel Gurney among them -- Jacobi gives what approximates a masterly one-man show. In a brilliantly calibrated scene near the end, he makes Turing's happiest moment also serve as a sad metaphor for his yearning, and inability, to communicate. He enfolds himself in the arms of a Greek youth, neither able to speak the other...