In article >,
The Cook > wrote:

> Katra > wrote:
>
> >In article >,
> > notbob > wrote:
> >
> >> On 2005-06-12, Siobhan Perricone > wrote:
> >>
> >> > unwatchable. Lucille Ball was considered a great actress, she was one of
> >> > Hollywood's biggest stars in the late 40s early 50s, but as far as I can
> >> > tell her broad, low humor is an acquired taste, like the Three Stooges.
> >> > She
> >> > doesn't play Mame Dennis with as much of the sophistication that
> >> > Rosiland
> >> > Russel brought to the role....
> >>
> >> By the time she did Mame, LB had shed all her early sophistication
> >> and was left with nothing but cliched Lucy mannerisms. Having already
> >> reached toxic levels of Lucy saturation, I just couldn't take any more.
> >>
> >> nb
> >
> >That's what I was afraid of...
> >
> >Once an actor gets a particular style of acting and sets a habit, some
> >tend to keep it. William Shatner did that, so that's probably why he did
> >not land many jobs after Star Trek.
> >
> >I think, at this point, two of the more versatile actors that I REALLY
> >like are Val Kilmer (Real Genius, Willow, Batman to name three totally
> >different kinds of movies that he starred in) and Dustin Hoffman. His
> >rolls in "Tootsie" and "Hook" were total opposites! He is very flexible.
> >:-)
>
>
> And of course to very different characters for Hoffman are in "The
> Graduate" and "Midnight Cowboy."


I have yet to explore all of his films.

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