Patty Winter wrote:   
   > In article <0001HW.C8BC42B8002D1BB6B01AD9AF@news.eternal-september.org>,   
   > Amy Guskin   wrote:   
   >> 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.     
   >    
   > There's a scene in "Slings & Arrows" where Geoffrey Tennant (Paul Gross)   
   > sends his Romeo and Juliet actors on a run around the block before they   
   > try a scene, and it works beautifully. That series had a lot of exquisite   
   > scenes.   
   >   
   That does help sometimes.  I've always looked at the Method (I'm trained    
   the Meisner way myself) as a tool to use to get you through rough    
   patches, not as the be-all and end-all of the process.  You have many    
   tools in your toolbox, and you use the ones that help.  I've seen a    
   number of actors (gender-neutral) put themselves through all kinds of    
   grief with no result.   
      
   Blair   
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