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Herbert Kuhner
There’s a Hollywood myth about Lawrence Olivier and Dustin Hoffman, Hofmann is reputed to have gone without sleep for a whole weekend in order to be convincing in a scene in Marathon Man. Olivier is alleged to have suggested to the dishevelled Hofmann: “Why don’t you try acting, dear boy?!”
Robert Di Niro, Silvester […]

I started at the top and worked my way down.
- Orson Welles
Orson Welles often pulled the chestnuts out of the fire,
but he threw them in just as often.
I saw Citizen Kane in 1955 at the 55th St Playhouse, which is off Seventh Ave. At the time it was still an “art house.” Years later it […]

Herbert Kuhner
He could speak Shakespeare’s lines as naturally as if he were actually thinking them.
- Charles Bennett, English playwright
Larry was the greatest of them all - and the most handsome. He was the prince and his princess was Vivien. She wasn’t bad at acting, and she was the most beautiful of them all.
Laurence Olivier directed […]

Manny, Moe and Jack are not the Three Stooges; they’re the Pep Boys. The Pep Boys used their first names after Moe saw a dress shop called Minnie, Maude and Mabel’s, way back in the Twenties. The Pep Boys didn’t have an act. They were the owners of the Pep chain stores for auto parts.
The […]

Herbert Kuhner

De box looks at vun fellow, and de box says
“Yes, dot vun is for me!”
It looks at annoder, and it says, “Nawww!”
- Akim Tamiroff, as related by Orson Wells
Larry, Marilyn, Vivien and Noblesse Oblige
He could speak Shakespeare’s lines as naturally as if he were actually thinking them.
- Charles Bennett, English playwright
Larry was the […]

Herbert Kuhner
The two love scenes in films that are indelible to me are between Laurence Olivier and Renée Asherson in Henry V and Gary Cooper and Doris Davenport in The Westerner. In Henry, Larry playing Harry proposes to Princess Kate after subjugating her country. He tells her that he is a man of action, not […]