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Linda Lavin

Posted: 5/4/12 at 10:15am

Couldn't find a thread on her, so get the wood ready to burn me at the stake...

Saw her show this week and she is a study in how to do everything right. If you're an actor, get a ticket just to watch her.

I think it was someone here who said that all she has to do is turn the page of the magazine she's reading and, not only is it funny, but you can't take your eyes off her. It's true. She's great.

Linda Lavin

Posted: 5/4/12 at 10:21am

^

I agree with you.

But on an earlier thread, someone found her turning the magazine pages too studied.

Linda Lavin

Posted: 5/4/12 at 10:23am

My mistake. Thanks.

Linda Lavin

Posted: 5/4/12 at 2:46pm

On the SMASH thread, Linda posted that she was in TECH and therefore could not commit to unstudied page-turning.

Linda Lavin

Posted: 5/4/12 at 3:14pm

I am a huge fan of Linda. In my book she can do no wrong. She is an exceptional actress. That being said, she is also a very mannered actress. It might have been her training or background. Like many great actresses, including Jessica Lange, who is also very mannered, Linda uses her hands and body alot in her characterizations, often in similar ways.

"The sexual energy between the mother and son really concerns me!"-random woman behind me at Next to Normal "I want to meet him after and bang him!"-random woman who exposed her breasts at Rock of Ages, referring to James Carpinello

Linda Lavin

Posted: 5/4/12 at 11:50pm

Had my first Linda Lavin experience last night and was blown away. Mannered, maybe, but I think it works very well for Rita in The Lyons. That monologue....perfection.

Some people paint, some people sew, I meddle.

Linda Lavin

Posted: 5/5/12 at 8:50am

I haven't seen The Lyons but everything I've read makes me believe that Lavin's character - as she has quite intelligently created it - is "mannered."

Isn't it possible that Lavin's performance is mannered precisely because she is portraying a woman whose every moment, every shifted glance, is calculated for maximum effect?

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