postmark, needles

"Mr. Penn, his eyes darting as if in anticipation of another blow, his shoulders tensed to return it, is almost beyond praise. Jimmy Markum is not only one of the best performances of the year, but also one of the definitive pieces of screen acting in the last half-century, the culmination of a realist tradition that began in the old Actor's Studio and begat Brando, Dean, Pacino and De Niro," says Tony Scott in today's NYT ... So apparently this performance by the best living actor will be different from the time Chris Hoerter and I saw him in a SF restaurant, impersonating Barbra Streisand riding James Brolin, dropping little dollars into his mouth, singing "people who need people" ...