21.   In the hour before the curtain, the actors went through their own personal rituals to prepare.

22.   Jim Carrey plays the Riddler and once he shows up, all the other actors might just as well go home.

23.   Never has a screen actor gone to such Herculean lengths to keep from laughing out loud while his castmates play it straight in a supposed drama.

24.   So many actors today go only to the gym and to acting class.

25.   That the characters are nothing new is clearly the point, and the two actors gamely go about doing what they do best.

26.   The actor went to see the show, loved it and went backstage to tell Becker and seek anointment as his Broadway successor.

27.   The more an audience is surprised, and laughs, the more the actor goes with it.

28.   Then, the actors would go home for the weekend and learn their lines.

29.   Union leaders may also allow actors to go back to work as soon as Monday pending a ratification vote by all members in coming weeks.

30.   What this actor goes for is close to an everyman quality, with a grand emotional expansiveness that matches his monumental physique.