He _became _a musician, he _became _a poet because the tyrant within him, his actor's genius, compelled him".
Danny is also brilliant, a gifted actor, a genius mathematician and a hilarious cut-up (she swears that her high-profile friends agree).
Has a director spent weeks fostering an actor's genius, or is a dreadful performance down to the actor following, to the letter, wrongheaded directions?
This is partly because David Hyde Pierce, who plays Niles, is a comic-pathetic actor of genius, a sort of modern-day Buster Keaton for TV.
Bernardi is an actor of genius; his Janus-faced pantomime, as Sylvio struggles voicelessly for a place among human chatterboxes, channels the infinite grace of the great silent-film comedians.
She kept on with Shakespeare at three hundred and fifty dollars a week in Stratford, Connecticut, drawing large crowds and mixed reviews, living alone on the river and hoping Tracy would join her — she cooed to the press over what a great Macbeth he would be, since he was, after all, America's presiding actor of genius.
Behind Albert sits Cora, the travel agent, and beside her, gazing out his window, is Dean, a blond actor whose genius for stating the obvious — "It's hot," or "The sun is setting," or "There aren't many trees" — is a staple source of amusement for Mindy.
You can sample two Sweeney Todds in London currently: Tooting Arts Club's cheery version at Harrington's Pie and Mash shop, reviewed by Susannah Clapp last week, and this new, more luxuriant, gravy-rich one starring two greats of opera and theatre, bass-baritone Bryn Terfel and actor of genius Emma Thompson.
(ii) (iii) No compendium would be complete without a precis of the celebrity dog-walker Marybeth B and her spouse, Alex B, a former Sci-Fi Channel segment producer, bedridden with leptospirosis. iv) In this unusual instance of a New2 Groveling folie deux, the couple became fixated on Robert Downey Jr., whom they regarded as not only an actor of genius but also as a political prisoner.
The show was never more mesmerising than when Don was pitching a new product, because what he revealed in those scenes was a born actor's genius for believing in a lie until it becomes the truth.
