From this gem, found in Sunday’s Personality Parade:
This is proof, if proof be needed, that newsprint cannot fully express sarcasm without emoticons. I, however, am not so restricted. Therefore: :rolleyes:
could it be that Jan L. of Saginaw, Michigan meant to imply that Caruso does this all the time? Any student of theatre arts will tell you that’s not acting - that’s indicating. The (frowned upon) practice of going thru particular body movements often associated with particular emotions in place of actually feeling them. It often produces a shallow and often substandard performance (and it got me a D in Acting 203)
Alternatively, could it be that there is no sarcasm and simply a snotty, abrupt response?
You know, I didn’t really want to reply to this post…
puts sunglasses on, turns to look wistfully into the distance
…but I just promised that dead little girl’s parents that I would.
takes sunglasses off and looks thoughtfully out to sea
Wow, DonCorleone, that was really good! You should be a print actor!
Heh. He should cough up the $15 so he can continue sharing quality snark with us.
Bravo!
Why won’t you look AT me? Am I horribly disfigured? A medusa? Are you lying to me? Just look me in the eye and tell me what happened!!
I think the origin of this line is with Laurrence Olivier.
Dustin Hoffman came to film a scene in Marathon Man, but he looked terrible…all worn out and so forth. When asked by Olivier why he really looked so bad, Hoffman told him he had wanted to feel the same as his character, so he stayed up for two days, eating like shit and just making himself feel terrible.
Olivier replied, “You know…it’s called acting.”
Olivier was not big into method acting.
It can be both! It’s not just acting, it’s bad acting! The whole package!
If they ever make a live-action movie of a Lucky Charms commercial, that guy is set, by the way. He would make a perfect leprechaun.
The way I heard it, Hoffman had just run around the block a couple of times to get sufficiently sweaty and out of breath for the scene. And Olivier looked at him and said, “My dear boy…why don’t you try acting?”
I like my version better, but it might not actually be true. 
Your version is also the one I’ve heard.
Yeah, 2 interpretations of the mystic Oracle of Parade:
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You stupid person, don’t you recognize *acting * when you see it?
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That’s what passes for “acting” if you’re David Caruso.
[shakes head slowly while watching DonCorleone from a distance] That’s a man fighting his demons. Sometimes they win. [sighs deeply, signals waitress for another drink]
(Please spend the $15 on a membership. You’ll just waste it on instant lottery tickets anyway)
I’m part Jewish, part Scottish and all stingy. I don’t pay for nowt.
tries to take sunglasses off, realises he’s not wearing any, starts looking around for them, checking pockets, neglecting to notice that they are propped on top of his head, tries to style it out, looks into the middle distance and squints
Maybe the editor screwed it up. Maybe the original answer was:
Yes. It’s called: “ACTING!”
–or something like that!
I vote for number 2.
The accompanying picture had a picture of Caruso squinting and tilting his head. The caption read something like, “David Caruso - Acting”
DonCorleone writes:
> I’m part Jewish, part Scottish and all stingy. I don’t pay for nowt.
Yeah, well, not only are you going to have to pay the fee for SDMB membership, but you’re going to come up with $100 for your membership in the Print Actors Guild.
Why Bubbadog (BD) cannot watch **Caruso © ** on TV when Mrs. Bubbadog (MBD) is in the room
C: Little Girl, I… will make sure that you are safe!
BD: You know most parents teach their children to run when a strange man looks at them like that.
MBD: SSHHHHH!
C: Did your mommy tell you where she was going?
BD: Does he really think, by removing his sunglasses, that child will be any less frightened of him.
MBD:Just watch it!
C:Maaaaaaaybeeeee we just found our killer
BD: David! hold your head up straight. David, your head is tilting for no reason! David, why is your head tilting like that !!!?!?!?
MBD: JUST SHUT UP!
BD: He can’t hear you honey. He’s on the TV. But I can understand why you’d want him to shut up.
MBD: That’s it! I’m outta here!
David Caruso does so much more than just squinting and tilting his head.
He puts his hands on his hips too.
The creatures on David’s home planet have their eyes on the side of their bodies. He tilts his head to remind himself of his roots.
And here I thought someone on TV finally had the nerve to write a “real-person” kind of character. One that doesn’t know how to complete a sentence in perfect english. One that doesn’t always maintain eye contact; or resist wiggling their hands & arms in a distracting fashion. Like so many real people I come into contact with every day.
You guys are saying it’s not part of the character?