Wednesday, 14 March 2012

Woods and Garner take sober stance as AA co-founders // `Bill W.' pulls no punches on drinking

Perhaps, with the help of a computer, it would be possible todetermine the number of drunk scenes that have been played in themovies, on television and on the stage. Ray Milland in "The LostWeekend," Jack Lemmon in "The Days of Wine and Roses," Dudley Moorejoking it up in "Arthur," W. C. Fields in any number of features -they're only a few of the actors who have exploited alcoholism in thename of drama or comedy.

So how is an actor desirous of communicating the horrible,debilitating effects of this great American pastime going to avoidseeming disarmingly familiar - like a harmless old pal?

That was one of the questions facing James Woods as he tackledthe role …

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