Word: actore
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...mock his charm. The production is vigorous, persuasive, at moments unforgettable, and in Kenneth Branagh, 24, it features a potential heir to the legacy of Olivier, Richardson and Gielgud. Branagh has the animal magnetism of a leading man and the cerebral fire and ice of a character actor. He brings off the hortatory set pieces of command with howling fervor and excels at the gentle comedy of courtship, pouring his heart into the cracked vessel of his schoolboy French as he woos the French princess Katharine (Cecile Paoli...
...dismissed the theater too hastily as a training ground for leadership. A renowned drama teacher and director, Father Gilbert Hartke of Catholic University, who has known Reagan for 45 years, believes so. Theater isolates and defines the human dimensions more clearly than anything else, says Father Hartke. A skilled actor with good character is instructed by the parts he plays. An actor, perhaps more than most other people, studies courage and failure and bravery and cowardice. "The success of an actor," Father Hartke insists, "depends finally on how much the actor really loves people." Reagan's affection for people...
...goodbye, he asked that I pass along a message. He said, 'Nancy, will you tell them how proud I am of them? How often I think about them?' " That message is at once so stagy as to be suspect and still so obviously corny as to be genuine. The actor and the man have become indistinguishable or, as Father Hartke would put it, they always were, we just would not believe...
...both Kennedy and Ike at times seemed to possess the actor's detachment and view themselves from a distance and then make adjustments for their weaknesses. From Kennedy's fatalism bubbled bursts of great humor, based on the realization that man was often absurd and there was only so much he could do during any working day to repair the damage. Ike often used his wisdom and warmth to fill the gap left by waning physical vigor...
...Reagan now compensates for the changes that have occurred and will occur within him will be better viewing than any drama now playing on the stage or on film. The old motto, "The whole world acts the actor," which legend says was on one of London's early Drury Lane theaters, is the title...