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What do you think about acting? As I'm hunting and pecking here much-aged Kirk Douglas is selling his fourth autobiography on Larry King Live. He's seriously speech impaired, and wisely promotes the acting of his son rather than have anything to say about his own acting (or the lack of it.) He's 90.  For his sake I hope he secretly, or not so secretly, knows he couldn't act at all. All he did was parade his various mental imbalances, anger, and pathological hatred of all people. If he did kiss anyone on stage, which I doubt, or of course on screen, I bet he actually bit them. When asked to kiss professionally I bet he said, "Oh no,  couldn't!"

In other words he's the extreme opposite of the aged Marlon Brando who not only kissed onscreen, but he also kissed Larry King, live, on Larry King Live. On the lips while smiling! Way to go Marlon! Good actors are good kissers. In short, a good actor kisses good, sleeps well, is good at sex, lives long, reproduces (Brando of course had children all over) and genuinely applauds other good actors. 

Odd that actors have such diverse reputations. Lots of successful people, with no relationship with theater, the movies or acting, are very good actors. Life seems to require that we be good actors, regardless of our professions. How's that for a novel point of view??

Barry

That is, perhaps, acting is not lying, it's telling the truth.