Re: BSG "Saul Tigh" ... smiling, glad-handing politician?!!?!

On Apr 23, 2:51 pm, F=C3=A9achad=C3=B3ir <F=E9ach@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> Scr=EDobh "Victor Velazquez" <k-can...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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> >Jack Bohn wrote:
> >> Ken from Chicago wrote:
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> >>> P.S. "ACTING!"--Jon Lovitz, 'Master Thespian', SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE.
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> >> (I wonder if the Lovitz "ACTING" schtick is based on the story
> >> about Laurence Olivier and Dustin Hoffman.  Dustin, a method
> >> actor, was almost literally beating himself up getting into
> >> character.  Olivier, looking at him, said, "My boy, have you ever
> >> thought of 'acting'?")
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> >I do believe you'e right (and I can't believe it's never occurred to
me).=

> >I've heard the story thusly: Olivier comments on how ****y Hoffman
looks=
..
> >Hoffman responds that since his character has been up all night, he has
t=
oo.
> >Olivier quips, "My dear boy, that's why they call it ACTING."
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> >Even if it never happened, it seems famous enough for Mr. Lovitz to
have
> >heard it.
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> In the version I heard, , Hoffman went on a weekend bender before
> playing the toothpulling and escape scenes, and when he explained his
> method Olivier's response was 'My dear boy, why don't you just act?'

I think the Olivier version was more like this: Hoffman was down about
an ongoing breakup and Olivier noted that hard work in the craft he
loved always relieved his depressions.