Posted
5:11 PM
by Gene
How many people in newsrooms or out said this week, "
Maureen Stapleton? Wasn't she Edith Bunker"? Perhaps
the top photo tells us something. (@#$%^& Playbill.com had to combine two photos in one URL.) She had the face we might associate with today's quickly disappearing ac-TORS, only prettier -- the unmemorable face of an actress (ac-TOR in news-hack speak) who can act, but who, because she lacked those facets that distinguish the great personalities from good ac-TORS, must remain essentially anonymous. And that is one reason THE CONSPIRACY is enjoying record B. O. Who can get hot with an ac-TOR?
We don't mean to be disrepectful to the late Miss Stapleton, as we have no doubt she was very good -- she had to be doing Tennessee Williams -- but when the heds run "Academy-Award winning actress dies" we're missing something.