>> On Sun, 19 Sep 2010 21:50:01 -0400, Joseph DeMartino wrote
(in article 
):
> 
> 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.  (After doing a 
one-man show as Vivien Leigh as my senior theater project in high school, I 
can only ever think of him as "Larry." :-)  )

**(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 Hassidim.  I still can't believe my father picked him out!)

Amy
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