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...says tough, which Lee Marvin is. His specialty: playing the meanest, most thoroughly sadistic roles Holly wood has to offer...
...Marvin stalked in, put a long, cold eye on Torn, then abruptly barked an ad-lib: "NOW!" Torn was so shaken he dropped his pistol. "No matter how fast they are," analyzed Marvin, as if it were all real, "when you've got a white eye for a guy, it really gets them...
...Marvin, 41, has been getting them in films and TV for 15 years, and though he has made 25 pictures, he has never made star rank...
Despite success, Marvin will have a hard time forsaking tough roles com pletely. "I love violence," he says, and it is ingrained. After getting bounced from eleven different prep schools, he tried war. As a Marine scout-sniper, he made 21 Pacific island landings until "some Jap bastard on Saipan" got him just below the spine; he spent 13 months learning how to move again. "You Finked Out." As an actor, he specialized in killers, but he became best known as a cop. Lieut. Ballinger of TV's M Squad. Even there he was tough-"no broads, no mother...
Giving those vicaries is work. "I generally invent most of my own business," Marvin explains. "And I have a fear of imitating myself. You've always got to come up with something new. Otherwise the audience is going to say, 'You finked out, Charlie.' " Marvin hasn't, so far, even in the most hopeless of moments. In one movie, after killing everyone in sight, he is approached by two cops. Unarmed and badly wound ed, Marvin does the only thing left: he cocks his right hand and points his finger bang-bang-bang at the cops...