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...says. “The process is more valuable than the end product.” Forbess, who plays the charged role of Martha, echoes Wilner’s appreciation of the play’s rigor. “This is by far the meatiest acting role I’ve ever had and probably ever will have,” she says. Because “Who’s Afraid?” has only four parts, each actor plays a vital role throughout the show. Despite any qualms they may have about doing the play justice...
...with the bathwater, because then you'd have a wet, critically injured baby") and Fred Willard, as the airhead host of a TV infotainment show (complaining about foreign films, he says, "French movies with writing on the screen - I always think it's breaking news"). O'Hara has the meatiest, or hammiest, role as a has-been diva who by Oscar-nomination time has transformed, or shall we say mutilated, herself into a figure of grotesque glamour. Guest has straight-facedly proposed O'Hara as an actual awards candidate. Which proves that he is the master of an irony...
...meatiest role, and the meat was deliciously rancid, was opposite Jose Ferrer in The Shrike, where she's the harridan who nearly drives her husband to suicide. Her performance was both stark and nicely judged - "good (and nasty)," Thomson says, approvingly - but it didn't vault Allyson into the realm of Serious Actress. It didn't set her on a new, thornier path, paving the way for her to play roles suitable for the decades to come, when the Wife role would be replaced by the Woman With a Past. Casting directors thought only of Allyson's past...
...Senator Joseph] McCarthy," he writes to the once radical and by then notoriously reactionary John Dos Passos). While his familial relations, highlighted here, can sometimes be off-putting (one wonders if the letters included from Wilson to his third wife, the much-younger novelist Mary McCarthy, are really the meatiest part of the correspondence inspired by that legendary m?salliance), these letters are filled with wonderfully caustic appraisals of everything from Robert Frost ("partly a dreadful old fraud and one of the most relentless self-promoters in the history of American literature") to the Metropolitan Opera house in the newly-constructed...
...following year she was Louise Beavers' passing-for-white daughter in "Imitation of Life" - the meatiest role Hollywood had yet offered a young black actress in an A-budget film. The stocky, seraph-faced Beavers, who had worked as a maid to silent screen star Beatrice Joy (Mrs. John Gilbert), went on to play maids in many movies; she also followed Ethel Waters and Hattie McDaniel as the problem-solving maid in the early-50s sitcom "Beulah." In "Imitation," from the Fannie Hurst novel that has generated at least four movies, Beavers is Delilah, a single mom whose recipe...