>> 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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