11. Most American actors come from the working classes, yet few persuasively seem it on screen. 12. Sometimes actors are coming back to reprise familiar roles. 13. The actor is coming off of one of the worst box-office years a major movie star could conceivably suffer. 14. The director Kenneth Tynan, Brustein recalled, said that every time some actor came into the audience he felt like lighting a match and burning his feet. 15. The free market would determine how many British actors come to New York and how many Americans to London. 16. Then, as the actors come forward to take their bows, you begin to lose your nerve. 17. Then, when the actor came back, he was fine. 18. There is one scene, toward the end of the film, where Hanks comes as close as any actor has come to answering that question. 19. Though the series is completely scripted and fictional, the actors come from stand-up comedy and have the same names as their characters. 20. What is it that makes actors come to despise what made them famous? |