71.   What good actors in plays by David Mamet do is take you right into the maelstrom.

72.   While Mamet makes good sense on what actors should not do, he is less persuasive on what they should do.

73.   When the giggly star decided to direct, like all actors eventually do, she chose some heavy material.

74.   --Why does an actor who plays a rancher in a television commercial for Volkswagen sound so much like Paul Hogan, the Australian actor featured in Subaru commercials?

75.   Why should actors do less?

76.   With the right amount of preparation time, of course, actors can do that.

77.   Work done by actors during the contract approval process would be paid retroactively, if the deal is approved.

78.   Or some theater actors can do big things big.

79.   But only four actors have done it in Academy history -- Luise Rainer, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn and Jason Robards.

80.   In the sound era, no veteran actor does it better than Jack Lemmon.