Comments on: I Blame the Holiday http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/snarl/2006/04/18/i-blame-the-holiday/ Snarl\'s Humble Webpage Fri, 04 Dec 2009 22:14:41 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5.2 hourly 1 By: Will http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/snarl/2006/04/18/i-blame-the-holiday/comment-page-1/#comment-3731 Will Tue, 18 Apr 2006 15:55:24 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/snarl/2006/04/18/i-blame-the-holiday/#comment-3731 <a name='a4546'></a> What a great weekend--I had the same kind--they are just the best: food, friends, loved ones. Pacino's had a wonderful, daring, really varied career. Years I got a gig painting a backdrop for a movie (that I later found out was straight porn :-) ). I rented the paint frame at the Loeb Drama Center and Al was there rehearsing Shakespeare's RICHARD III. It wasn't going too well. He'd wander into the scenic shop on breaks to talk to those of us working on various projects. He's a really short man but dynamic and a nice guy. He'd talk and vent and then go back and give it another try. By the time it got to New York he'd solved the way to speak the verse and he got good notices, which made me happy. No matter how discouraged he was, he never gave up and he kept at it until he'd made the language work for him and made himself work for the language.

What a great weekend–I had the same kind–they are just the best: food, friends, loved ones.

Pacino’s had a wonderful, daring, really varied career. Years I got a gig painting a backdrop for a movie (that I later found out was straight porn :-) ). I rented the paint frame at the Loeb Drama Center and Al was there rehearsing Shakespeare’s RICHARD III. It wasn’t going too well. He’d wander into the scenic shop on breaks to talk to those of us working on various projects. He’s a really short man but dynamic and a nice guy. He’d talk and vent and then go back and give it another try.

By the time it got to New York he’d solved the way to speak the verse and he got good notices, which made me happy. No matter how discouraged he was, he never gave up and he kept at it until he’d made the language work for him and made himself work for the language.

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