71.   Paul Sorvino, a well-known character actor who accompanied his daughter to the show, broke into tears.

72.   Payday is a lot bigger for action stars than for talented character actors.

73.   Pinky is played by Ricky Jay, the noted sleight-of-hand artist who has become a first-rate character actor.

74.   Platt is a character actor who appears to be working nonstop and has a movie surfacing, it seems, just about every month.

75.   Rounding out the cast are a fine group of first-rate character actors.

76.   Sears and Williams, marvelously resourceful character actors, play all the cozy, crazy characters who people this peculiar burg.

77.   Rufus sees himself as a character actor.

78.   Shawn may be the busiest acting playwright, with a play opening soon at the Royal National Theater in London and a prolific career as a comic character actor.

79.   Sorvino, daughter of character actor Paul Sorvino, is a find.

80.   Strathairn, a veteran of independent film -- notably the movies of John Sayles -- and one of the best character actors working today, is equally effective.