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...Christy and Ariel (played by real-life sisters Sarah and Emma Bolger). They're penniless contemporary Irish immigrants, haunted by the recent death of a son and, before the movie is over, scared witless by Sarah's life-threatening pregnancy. Oh, and we forgot to mention, Johnny's an actor who's afraid to let his authentic emotions boil over onstage. Which means, for him, the choice is between driving a cab and destitution...
Russell Crowe is a strong person and a great actor because of his intensity and savant-like dedication to his characters [Nov. 10]. It was refreshing to read an article about him that wasn't sensationalized. The quirks of temperament in his personality are what you find in most people who are as dedicated to their work as he is. While I like finding out a little bit about the person behind the actor, I have to agree with his statement about his privacy that you quoted: "I'll make movies, and you go to the cinema...
Crowe is an athletic reincarnation of the great Richard Burton, except that Crowe doesn't have to get drunk to behave obnoxiously. Nonetheless, he is today (as Burton once was) the finest actor on the planet. ANTHONY F. PROVENZANO Bronxville...
...play’s only serious acting difficulties came in the tricky second act, during which the cast members deal backstage with a complex and shifting network of sexual jealousies, an alcoholic actor, an irate audience, and an unplanned pregnancy—all while they’re trying to keep quiet to avoid disrupting the action onstage. Any company would be proud of this production’s skill with the gag coordination and choreography called for in Frayn’s script, but the act’s pacing in this staging was so breakneck that a considerable...
...actors shone in the third act, in which the characters struggle through their show despite improvised lines, broken scenery, missed entrances and flying sardines. Jokes that could have been fairly insipid on paper—three actors coming on at once to play the same part and delivering their lines in unison, an actor coming on several times to deliver the same line that’s already been delivered by someone else, a couple returning to a home that’s covered with newspapers and fish and having to be convinced that nobody’s been there?...