Amy Guskin wrote:
>>> On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 21:50:01 -0400, Joseph DeMartino wrote:
> 
>> As a general rule, I don't much like it when actors attack other
>> actors for their approach to their craft.  (Although I did have a
>> certain amount of sympathy for Lord Olivier when he interrupted one of
>> Dustin Hoffman's long-winded paens to The Method by asking, "My dear
>> boy, why don't you just try "acting*?" ) <<
> 
> No, no, that's not the way that happened.  It was during "The
Marathon Man," 
> and Hoffman was supposed to come into some scene winded, absolutely 
> exhausted.  The story goes, he ran around the block (somewhere in NY where 
> they were filming**).  When he got back, he came into where they were filming 
> the scene and explained what he'd just done, all the while gasping for 
> breath...to which Larry replied with the oft-quoted phrase.

   Well, I'm sorry to have to naysay Larry, but it just wouldn't have 
worked. You can't fake (act) physiological states. No more can running 
breathlessness be faked, than can a (porn) actress fake orgasm - it 
always shows.


> **(At least some of the movie was filmed in the diamond district, around 47th 
> St.  We were there shopping with my parents for something glittery for my 
> mother, and my father kept staring at one particular group of Hassidim on the 
> street.  Sure, we noticed there was filming going on, but we're New Yorkers: 
> you shrug your shoulders (if that) and move on about your business.  Anyway, 
> my father is looking, and looking...and suddenly says, "That's my
brother."  
> We went over to the group, and sure enough, my uncle was there as an extra, 
> costumed as a Hasidim.  I still can't believe my father picked him out!)

   I'm not cognizant of Jewish tongues, but shouldn't this be "a Hasid"? 
Wasn't "-im" a plural designator?

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