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Myself, I can't see the play without thinking of the late Jason Robards, who definitively played the alcoholic elder son Jamie on the stage and the screen and in O'Neill's sequel, "A Moon for the Misbegotten"; and I can't pretend that Paul Rudd matches that dark, doomed intensity.
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Sharif later admitted that he had briefly imagined himself in love with Streisand, and also recalled being smitten by Ava Gardner, his co-star in Mayerling (1968), in which he brought a suitable intensity to the doomed Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria, and Gardner, with some incongruity, played his mother.
Scarlett Johansson's Janet Leigh is briskly pert – pretty much the default Johansson performance – but doesn't begin to suggest the nervous intensity that Leigh brought to Psycho's doomed Marion Crane.
Darien has an intensity that is undercut by wisecracks, yet he seems neither anxious to charm nor doomed to irritate.
Afflicted with "awful tenacity" by "the vice of literature", doomed to addictive authorship despite poverty, failure and loneliness, his broken heroes somehow transform their misery into "vistas of… beauty and intensity".
Imminently doomed?
Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming.
Obviously, they are doomed.
"Ah, the doomed".
"This government is doomed.
Humans are doomed.
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