"I played it as good as I could," he wrote, in English.
"We felt if we played it as truthfully as possible," adds Faris.
But he, like Leno, doesn't play it/never played it as well or with as much interest as his successors".
Over the last 15 months, he has played it as well as, if not better than, anybody ever has.
After the young man played a Jimmy Dorsey tune, his father asked if he had played it as well as Dorsey could.
Members of the administration of Mayor Fiorello H. La Guardia of New York played it, as did Ernest Angell, an attorney and chairman of the board at the American Civil Liberties Union, according to his son, Roger Angell.
Fox executives said they had learned from the experience of ABC's "Millionaire," which suffered from overexposure when the network put it into the regular prime- time lineup and played it as many as four times a week.
Well, not always of course — his fumy Oscar performance was a disaster, but he was good stuck at the bottom of a crevasse because he instinctively played it as light as possible.
But few played it as deftly as Williamson.
"And he played it as well as anybody I know, especially coming from nothing.
They had the power to pull out of the bundled deal, he notes, and "we played it as hard as we could".
