The invention of film has given our generation the dubious advantage of watching our acting heroes deteriorate before our eyes.
His last days, a noble confrontation with death, made his life as much a work of art as his plays.
The love that previously dared not speak its name has now grown hoarse from screaming it.
Olivier's idea of introspection was to hood his eyes, dentalize his consonants and let the camera circle his blondined head like a sparrow looking for a place to deposit its droppings.
Laurence Olivier once made the rather cruel remark that when you've got the strength to play Lear you're too young, but when you're old enough, you haven't got the strength. Well, Alvin is well muscled and trained.
Alvin had the most startling blue eyes and blond hair at the time. He also had an extraordinary physical grace that made him an actor early on.
When ghosts begin resolving realistic plays, you can be sure the playwright has failed to master his material, ... The Piano Lesson.
Theatergoing is a communal act, movie going a solitary one.
No enlightened person would deny its premise, but as an ongoing program it is monotonous, limited, locked in a perception of victimization.
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