Tracy Letts

And again, a kind of dawning awareness of the actor on the part of the audience, right?

It's not like...

Philip Seymour Hoffman sort of exploded on the scene.

It was a guy where you kind of looked back and you went, oh, wait a minute.

He was this.

He was that.

He was this.

He was that.

Does that playhouse still exist?

Did you go back and look at any of that stuff?

I did.

Uh, so 60 to 62, he's on the Robert Horridge theater, two episodes of Armstrong circle theater, playhouse 90, John Brown's raid, which was a TV movie, great ghost tales, the defenders, Kane's hundred Shannon, Alfred Hitchcock presents four episodes of the naked city.

I watched his Alfred Hitchcock presents, uh, called ironically bad actor, uh,

written by Robert Block, who wrote Psycho.

And he was the lead in that show.

And a grisly little tale about an actor who cuts off a rival's head and hides it in an ice bucket.

And it's pretty standard angry young man stuff for TV.

There's not much to it.

We'll talk about it more perhaps when we get to the Godfather, but all these people worshipped at the altar of Brando.

I mean, Brando was the icon for