{"id":128839,"date":"2017-05-15T09:49:09","date_gmt":"2017-05-15T13:49:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=128839"},"modified":"2017-05-15T09:49:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-15T13:49:09","slug":"r-i-p-powers-boothe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=128839","title":{"rendered":"R.I.P. Powers Boothe"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nHis was my favorite kind of career. A reliable character actor over DECADES of work. Someone like Boothe is the bread and butter of the industry. Without someone like Boothe, the A-Listers cannot shine as bright. Think of the way he looks down at Anthony Hopkins in one of the key scenes in Nixon<\/i>. Hopkins slumped in a chair. Haig has come with the important message. What must be done. Hopkins, of course, is the focus of the scene. But – as is true across the board, 100% of the time – stars do not act in a vacuum of their own stardom. They rely on people like Boothe to highlight them, to do their part in scenes to make the story happen. In that moment in Nixon<\/i>, Alexander Haig IS the story. He is the one pushing the story along. It is what is in Boothe’s face in that quiet moment – a kind of mournful upright sense of compassion, even pity, overlaid with the strength to know that this man has GOT to go – that makes that moment happen. <\/p>\n

There are many such examples in this man’s lengthy career. In parts large and small. <\/p>\n

He WORKED. <\/p>\n

To an actor, that’s all that matters. Not fame, not above-the-title credits, not even salary. <\/p>\n

It’s the WORK that matters. <\/p>\n

Boothe’s passing leaves even more of a hole than an A-Lister’s passing. <\/p>\n

I will miss him very much. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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