Ms. Abedin considers the coming race an adventure, and she has even been willing to break her cherished status as a seen-but-not-heard insider.
Alison Fraser, as the bedraggled alcoholic in whom Anna sees her own future, and Walton Wilson as a seen-it-all bartender find strength in understatement.
Mr. Souther's easy authenticity as a seen-it-all music business Zelig probably springs from his having seen plenty himself.
Some, as always, see a conspiracy.
Even well into his 70s, he pitched himself as a seen-it-all consultant unburdened by regrets.
Edwards also gave Loggia parts in S.O.B. (1981) as a seen-it-all Hollywood lawyer, and in That's Life (1986) as an alcoholic priest.
Too often, the Doctor seemed scripted as a seen-it-all-before smartarse hell-bent on greeting every creature, artefact, space station and gizmo with a loudly over-familiar "oh, it's YOU" bordering on camp.
After he made the 2000 indie hit "You Can Count on Me," the lovely "Margaret" (in which Guirgis has a small role as a seen-it-all N.Y.P.D. detective) was a critical darling but a disappointment at the box office.
The new drama certainly boasts a top-notch pedigree: the cast includes Angelica Huston as a seen-it-all producer, Debra Messing as one half of a frazzled writing duo, Jack Davenport as a suitably saturnine director, the 2006 American Idol runner-up Katharine McPhee as a hope-filled ingénue and Broadway star Megan Hilty as the musical's would-be-star.
The film stars Humphrey Bogart as a seen-it-all director and Ava Gardner in one of her signature roles as Maria Vargas, a woman beautiful enough "to use the moon for a key light".
