chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Chuq Von Rospach) (03/30/85)
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 {cbosgd,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA "I can call spirits from the vasty deep." "Why so can I, or so can any man; but will they come when you do call for them?" -- Henry IV, part I