Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2006/10/13

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Subject: [Leica] D'Onofrio
From: jbm at jbm.org (Jeff Moore)
Date: Fri Oct 13 14:30:32 2006
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2006-10-13-17:01:45 B. D. Colen:
> The really high point of his - Vincent D'Onofrio - career was his 1993
> performance in an episode of Homicide: Life on the Street - Season 6,
> Episode 7 - called Subway.

Certainly *a* high point.  It stood out even against the background of
Homicide's remarkably high overall quality (although folk familiar with
the Bal'mer MTA might observe that the trains don't have quite the same
sort of gaps a person might fall into -- I heard that the story was
adapted from an incident which occurred in NYC).

But D'Onofrio hasn't been sleeping since then.  Just recently, on his
current gig with Law & Order: Criminal Intent, there was a stunning
example of his craft: his character was interviewing someone he had
history with and cared for, but he knew he had to get a confession from
her -- with each revelation of either a childhood experience which had
ultimately twisted her, or of a fact which would cement her conviction,
the emotions playing on his face in the reaction shots were appropriate,
perfectly of the moment, and apparently deeply felt...  I just don't
know how it's even possible to do what he did.

Replies: Reply from bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen) ([Leica] D'Onofrio)
In reply to: Message from jsmith342 at cox.net (Jeffery Smith) ([Leica] Re: Lee Harvey Oswald)
Message from bd at bdcolenphoto.com (B. D. Colen) ([Leica] Re: Lee Harvey Oswald)