I've seen Henry Goodman be positively porcine. Cerebral is not a word I would associate with him in the shows I've seen. I don't claim to know what his Max was like- you saw it and I respect your opinion that he wasn't working the night you saw him- but on paper he seemed ideal to me. (Unlike Richard Dreyfuss, whose stage chops were extremely limited and his musical chops nil, as far as I know.)
