What we intended to say was something like this: Minnesota Fats is played, curiously enough, by Jackie Gleason, and where audiences might have arrived expecting a million laughs from the most celebrated buffoon ever to rise through U.S. television, they leave with a single, if surprised, reaction: inside the master jester, there is a masterful actor.
Human or animal, it plays a curiously intense role in Tom's life.
He also played himself, curiously enough, in Mr. Eszterhas's film, "Burn Hollywood Burn".
A.: Nine miles below the surface of Earth, according to Soviet engineers drilling in Siberia (the Soviets played a curiously large part in these discoveries).
His profile of Daley that month, "The Son Also Rises," would come to play a curiously pivotal role in the political complexion of Chicago — and, indirectly, the White House.
For a small, isolated country deep in the heart of South America, Paraguay has played a curiously noteworthy role in literature and for good reason, as John Gimlette's absorbing new book, "At the Tomb of the Inflatable Pig," quickly reveals.
Hepburn got glowing reviews, while the New York Post wrote of Ferrer: "To my mind, his playing is curiously uninteresting".
The guy learning the lesson firsthand is Paul Giamatti, playing an actor named, curiously enough, Paul Giamatti.
This intriguing game of bluff would deserve to be remembered even if it hadn't played such a curiously apt part in the hostage crisis.
More curiously, Mr. Turturro was playing an actress who is portraying — in a play within the play — the mother of a character who is played by Mr. Turturro's wife, Katherine Borowitz.
