I prefer to think of him as our supreme actor-poet-playwright, reliving recent history because it's such a rattling good yarn, packed with great parts, bound to break all box-office records.
At just 11 years old, Hollywood's supreme child actor looks like the love child of Shirley Temple and Chucky.
All of this confirms what has long been obvious: that Finley is one of the supreme singer-actors of our day.
For Thurman, she is not simple Vanessa Redgrave but "the sublime, the supreme Vanessa Redgrave": actor, activist and all-round miracle worker.
Mourinho can be the actor supreme or, to paraphrase his rival, Pep Guardiola, "the boss of the press room", yet it was his next quotation which bears revisiting.
Well hello Roger Ashton-Griffiths, British character actor supreme and hopefully a source of much amusement as the bumbling Mace Tyrell in weeks to come.
THE WEDDING MARCH As this extravagant, wickedly ironic 1928 melodrama shows, Erich von Stroheim was not only a supreme (if typecast) actor but one of the greatest silent-era directors.
But with several major European and Latin American releases in the coming months, a probable worldwide $50m or so testifies to his late-career status as character actor supreme and hipster cause celebre.
"Yeah, right!" And oh my friends and oh my foes, Micky Dolenz, comic actor supreme, cracked up at my joke.
It is a supreme asset for actors and actresses to be beautiful; it gives them greater range and greater possibilities for expressiveness.
