My colleague Frederick Allen and Forbes contributor and Syracuse University Professor Len Burman have written eloquently about those two issues.

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What he really wants to do, he insists, is appear in a comedy, a wish thus far denied him on film unless one counts his performance as the dyspeptic painter Frederick in Woody Allen's "Hannah and Her Sisters" (1986).

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