Miles Alex Fastt) is a very earnest actor who has come to this small town with a troupe.
How is it possible that I can be Nicolas Cage, most mumblingly, intensely earnest actor of a generation, yet the IRS should be forcing sales of my property?
The main action occurs between a grimacing dynamo with a slipping red wig (Anne Gridley); an earnest, aspiring actor of sorts (Zachary Oberzan); and, as best as I can tell, a Hasidic pirate with a Swedish-Jamaican accent and a fondness for bead necklaces (the magnificent Robert M. Johanson, who stood out in a strong cast).
Though the joke was not primarily about race, it was hard to avoid the subtext — an earnest white American actor coming to the defense of a British white actor for a joke a black actor made about the ease with which the Brit landed roles.
Alas, there is no megalomaniac theatre director Desmond Oliver Dingle on hand, but the self-regarding and earnest actor-manager Alexander Berkin John Hopkinss), who believes in "an epic theatre that can bring about real social change", is a good substitute.
It hardly needs saying that the death of a child shatters a family, but Carole Gaunt says it anyway in "Dance of the Seven Headed Mouse," whose earnest actors can't quite overcome the script's clumsiness and clichés.
What quality can turn an earnest middle-aged actor into an action hero?
Mr. Winton, a real-life hero who is still living, is played in the film by Rupert Graves, an earnest, good-looking English actor who lends the character little more than earnestness and good looks.
There's the time, during a touring production of "The Importance of Being Earnest," an actor changed the clocks backstage, so another actor thought he'd missed his cue.
He added that the actor possesses an earnest innocence, "almost like Peter Sellers in 'Being There.'" Puckler started the bike and was off, descending canyon roads and hitting the freeway, the speedometer tipping 80.
