51. Only a great actor at the height of his powers can do justice to the sheer range of feeling within the character. 52. So he also had to be a great actor. 53. The experience was a kind of boot camp that formed great actors. 54. The great English actor Roth is encouraged to twitch and spasm to the rafters, which gets pretty annoying pretty quick. 55. The huge, all-star cast appears and disappears, with some great actors wasted and others never to be seen again. 56. The great actor does not turn out to be the sharpest knife in the drawer. 57. The performers are mostly wonderful, although sometimes the all-star casting of great actors in tiny parts seems wasteful. 58. Then a newcomer to the business, Gardner was working on the set when he was dumbstruck by an informal conversation between his father and the great Shakespearean actor. 59. There are a lot of great actors in Hollywood, but few, if any, could have gotten away with being so over the top without seeming campy. 60. There are a lot of great actors in this film, even in some of the smaller roles that appear only once or twice. |