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[The Valkyrie]

When was he brilliant as an actor?   Both the range and subtlety of his portrayals i’ve seen are Shatnerian.

Unlike brilliant actors, in whose portrayals you always see the character and not the actor, in his there is all actor and no character.

When Anthony Hopkins portray Nixon, Stephens, Adams or Hannibal, neither Hopkins nor any of those others are there except the particular character being portrayed.  And that particular character is all there.

With the film Nixon the historic Nixon was jarring to see in new footages appended at the end of the movie, because the historic Nixon looked physically nothing like Hopkin’s Nixon, so convincingly did Hopkins make you believe you’ve seen in his protrayal the real intimate Nixon.  

But when steward portrays anyone else I’ve seen, it takes effort to recall what is there is not suppose to be Steward channeling Picard.

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Best song ever produced!

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