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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach)
Newsgroups: net.tv,net.movies
Subject: Re: Actors acting as actors
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Date: Sat, 30-Mar-85 03:48:28 EST
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Posted: Sat Mar 30 03:48:28 1985
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In article <647@masscomp.UUCP> carlton@masscomp.UUCP (Carlton Hommel) writes:
>Last week's episode of Hill Street Blues featured a vignette where La Rue
>was paying several grand for in order to act in a Home Security video.
>Sort of like the "Don't Leave Home Without It" spots - housewife locks up,
>criminal breaks in, action freezes as Security Man walks on to tell you how
>to aviod this situation.  It turns out that this is a set up to get La Rue
>into a porno flick, but what impressed me was the ability of the actor
>to convincingly  portray someone who couldn't act.

I can think of something even harder than an actor acting like they can't
act-- a dancer dancing like they can't dance. Dancing takes so much
training and habit forming that trying to make mistakes on purpose becomes
quite difficult. For a good example of how well it CAN be done, watch
carefully the part of Victoria in 'All That Jazz'. She is a good dancer
dancing badly, and doing it VERY well.
-- 
:From the closet of anxieties of: Chuq Von Rospach, National Semiconductor
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