On 2010-09-19 22:33:13 -0500, Patty Winter said:   
   > 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.   
   >    
   >    
   > Patty   
   I love "Slings & Arrows"! That's a great scene, too, but it's not so    
   much method as to exhaust them so that they can't think too hard about    
   their lines and just deliver them. Breaking them out of artiness, if I    
   recall.   
   The scene I think of from that show is Geoffrey acting like an    
   emotion-starved crazy person to get a change in direction from Darren    
   Nichols' (Don McKellar) character. "You were such a goof! And I'm dead    
   inside." Words to that effect.   
   -K   
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