>> On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 23:53:09 -0400, Elko T wrote
(in article ):

> 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. <<

I respectfully disagree.

>>>> **(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? <<

No idea.  I just know how I've heard them referred to my entire life by my 
Jewish family and friends.  You are entirely free to nitpick my Hebrew 
grammar, but I can't tell you one way or the other if you're correct because 
I do not know.

Amy
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