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| As usual I disagree with your opinion. | |
| Posted by: portenopete 03:49 am EST 02/10/18 | |
| In reply to: Denise Gough and James McArdle are perfect - Genealley 10:03 pm EST 02/09/18 | |
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| Nathan Lane is terrific as Roy Cohn: brimming with bile and rage and wit. He sucked me in the way he sucks Ethel R. when he's expiring. I think Prior can be forgiven for being performative given his avocation and I was deeply touched by Garfield's performance. If you must invoke the wildly subjective word "wrong", it'd be McArdle, whose peaches and cream Scottishness does little to evoke neurotic urban Jewishness. Not a whiff of the Steppes from him. |
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| I must | |
| Posted by: Genealley 03:19 pm EST 02/10/18 | |
| In reply to: As usual I disagree with your opinion. - portenopete 03:49 am EST 02/10/18 | |
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| He WAS wrong. IMHO. Too chipper, wise-cracky, no hint of the Jewishness you mention that McArdle also doesn't "have". Yes....wrong for Roy Cohn. Jonathan Hadary was the best - always IMHO. And I don't think Louis has to have the map of the ghetto written all over his face. McArdle captures the tortured, over-thinking Louis perfectly. I for one was happy he didn't do stereotypical "Jewish" acting. Whatever that really is. (Fire away!) |
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| re: I must | |
| Posted by: lonlad 08:58 pm EST 02/10/18 | |
| In reply to: I must - Genealley 03:19 pm EST 02/10/18 | |
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| How Jewish was Al Pacino??? F Murray Abraham??? That seems a very limited criterion for assessing success as Roy Cohn. | |
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| Limited to you? | |
| Posted by: Genealley 10:08 pm EST 02/10/18 | |
| In reply to: re: I must - lonlad 08:58 pm EST 02/10/18 | |
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| Crucial to me. I wasn't crazy about Pacino or Abraham. |
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| re: I must | |
| Posted by: Snowysdad 06:11 pm EST 02/10/18 | |
| In reply to: I must - Genealley 03:19 pm EST 02/10/18 | |
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| I can't say Hadary was the best because there are a lot of important people in the role that I did not see, but I did see him on tour and thought him excellent, as good if not better than Pacino in the HBO film and decidedly better than Nathan Lane who I did not care for at all. | |
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| And do you know who else was surprisingly good as Cohn? | |
| Posted by: Genealley 07:15 pm EST 02/10/18 | |
| In reply to: re: I must - Snowysdad 06:11 pm EST 02/10/18 | |
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| David Margulies in the original Perestroika He was a standby and he was excellent | |
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