Oscar Spotlight: The Actors
"Actors aren't animals! They're human beings!" the wise producer Leo Bloom once said, to which his partner, Max Bialystock, replied, "They are? Have you ever eaten with one?" Most of the Oscar-nominated actors this year seem like agreeable dining companions"which turns out to be an asset on the campaign trail, where instead of kissing babies, nominees must schmooze with out-of-work screenwriters over luncheons at the…