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I'd probably want to be acting all the time just so as not to have to come up with something to do with myself for months at a time
If not for the paranoia I have about my rent check, I'd much more love the periodic work. Colin's always "...and then I'm going to spend ten days in Belize." I never spend ten days anywhere that's not my apartment.
Ben Kingsley wishes he were Michael Caine.
Or vice versa. Has Caine ever won an Oscar?
Two.
Yeah -- right? He won a couple of years ago, for The Cider House Rules, and then was nominated again for The Quiet American but I don't think he won that time.
Predictably, I liked the second performance a lot more than the first.
Really? I stand corrected!
I like that about Michael Caine -- it's like he's still a working class guy, so he wants to make sure there's a next paycheck coming.
Film critics refer to the Caine/Hackman rule. Which is that at any time of day, you are guaranteed to find a movie on cable with either Michael Caine or Gene Hackman in it.
Supporting for Ciderhouse and Hannah And Her Sisters. He has six noms, from 1967 to now. Which really only represents a scant portion of his output. (117 credits). Ben's got 4 noms, 1 win. (76 credits).
Hey, Olivier did The Betsy, a film so bad that it never shows anywhere. Plus he has a sex scene in it which is just wrong wrong wrong. I do NOT need to see an elderly and venerated performer humping the maid, thankyewverymuch.
Dammit!
I had successfully eternally sunshined The Betsy right oughta my mind. Now it's back again with all its truly terribleness. Curses.
One of the few movies I've ever walked out of.
So it wasn't safe, then?
Olivier ended his career doing pretty much everything that came his way (see also Boys From Brazil, the Langella Dracula, etc.). Occasionally he got one like SLEUTH (with, hey now, Michael Caine), but usually, nsm.