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...Actor's Genius The headline of Richard Schickel's Appreciation of Marlon Brando, "Hostage of His Own Genius," was unfair to the actor [July 12]. Schickel quoted Laurence Olivier as saying there is no room for genius in the theater because it causes too much trouble. Your critic noted that Brando's genius was for a long time "too much trouble" for everyone to bear. However, without Brando's genius, cinema today would not be as good as it is. He inspired actors to contribute their own share of genius and ideas about moviemaking to the art. Film lovers wish...
Pity this is the most we'll get to see of perennially underappreciated character actor HANK AZARIA'S hunky side in his new one-hour television show, !Huff (or should it be !Buff?), which premieres on Showtime Nov. 7. Azaria plays Dr. Craig Huffstodt, a well-to-do Los Angeles psychiatrist whose life revolves around a bevy of people plagued by varying degrees of insanity. His schizophrenic brother lives behind locked doors in a private mental institution. His best friend, a lawyer, asks him to lie under oath. His mother Izzy, a manipulative, acidic and passive-aggressive divorce played...
...retire soon. "I kind of wanted it to suck. I wanted it to be a big, noble failure," says Scrubs creator Bill Lawrence, who will have Braff, 29, direct some episodes this season. "I was extremely jealous. I might have to put myself on the show as an actor to even the playing field...
...notebooks of overheard stories, personal experiences, friends' lives and local newspaper clippings (thus saving from being lost to history the tale of the Jersey hotel workers who drilled holes in the walls to watch guests have sex). He used them in a romantic comedy about a young, depressed Hollywood actor who comes home to his mother's funeral, confronts his father and meets a woman. He wrote the script in 2000 while working as a waiter in Los Angeles after graduating from Northwestern, where he majored in film. "Almost everyone had passed on it," he says of his script. "They...
...today. "I committed myself body and soul to it." Not surprisingly, his petro-philosophy was more Marx than Rockefeller, and his rhetoric even now might give a capitalist oilman cold sweats. "The people are the owners of their natural resources," says Rodriguez, "so we all have a proprietary actor's role on the oil stage...