There’s a stock phrase critics often use to describe compelling actors: “I’d watch them read the phone book.” With the late Gene Hackman, however, I’d probably defend his greatness by using a metaphor from the opposite end of the telephone spectrum. I’d watch him listen to his phone messages.
I guess that’s not much of a metaphor since I have literally w…
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