--- In [email protected], new.morning <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > With the film analogy, Rick's. recently posted exchange with friends > come to mind. Like two actors meeting 30 years after having done > college drama together. > > Guy1: "So you are still doing community theatre like when I last ? saw you?" > > Guy2: "Yeah, its the greatest. Its by far the fastest track to the > top, especially my theatre in located in Podunk, a town of 10,000 > in the midwest, far from any urban center." > > Guy1: "Really?" > > Guy2: "Oh totally! Its the only way to get to the top. Its like a > rocketship. You are really missing out! We do the same play over and > over again, every season, with some minor variations to expand our > range." > > Guy1: " And what actors from your theatre have actually made it to > the top?" > > Guy2: " You just don't get it do you! Thasts so irrelevant a > question. Why are you so hostile and angry. Is it because of my > great success?"
Funny. And apt. > --- In [email protected], new.morning <no_reply@> wrote: > > > > Do you two, and others who have identified some past life: do you > > identify with that person? It's just a role. There was a funny story told about one of the great actors, Lawrence Olivier. He was in a piece with a younger actor, who was from the Method school of acting -- put on the role at the beginning of prod- uction, and *stay* in it until the film was finished. They were shooting a scene together and, between takes, the younger actor stayed in character, while "Larry" dropped character the moment the director yelled "Cut." Larry would be laughing and joking with the crew the whole time, having a ball, and then when the director called for the next take, snap! -- he'd be right back in character. Then "Cut," and he'd be back to laughing and joking with the crew, while the younger actor was stuck in his role. Finally the young actor asked Olivier, "Larry...how do you DO this?" Olivier looked at the young fellow and said, "It's called ACTING. You should try it someday." :-)
