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CONGRATULATIONS
TO ANTHONY LAPAGLIA FOR WINNING THE 1998 TONY AWARD FOR "A VIEW FROM THE
BRIDGE"! "Anthony LaPaglia
proved how enormously appealing he can be in The Rose Tattoo a few seasons back, and he is
appealing here once again, albeit against type; his is as compassionately-realized an
Eddie Carbone, I imagine, as anyone could render."
--Martin Denton
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BRAVO!
Credit: Sara Krulwich/The New York Times
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"A View From
The Bridge" , "...with a cast that approaches perfection..." "...is so
thoroughly compelling and such a distinctive, successful blend of elements great and
small..." and "...LaPaglia, the wonderfully bull-like suitor in the recent
revival of "The Rose Tattoo," brings to Eddie a charisma-magnified
man-in-the-street quality that never condescends to the character. ...". "...The
degrees of repressed explosiveness LaPaglia conveys...are astonishing. "
"...Miller, Mayer and this top-flight cast have indeed found the tragic muse in a
kitchen sink in Brooklyn. "
--BEN BRANTLEY, New York Times |
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"With his stocky build,
sandpaper voice and dewy, jittery eyes, LaPaglia provides a firm center for the
production, playing Eddie as a guilt-ridden guy who sacrifices everything without quite
understanding why."
--Greg Evans , Reuters/Variety |
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| (Bulletproof Heart) "The
movie is thoughtful, surprising and haunting." ---Roger Ebert |
("Commandments") "And the
more I think about it, the more I'm impressed with Anthony La Paglia. Sure, it was a
breeze for him to play a
morally-bankrupt scoundrel. But as the film's narrator, he has to maintain some degree of
sympathy. I was amazed at how repulsive La Paglia made Harry, without turning him into an
outright villain."
---Michael
J. Doyle |
(In "Commandments")
"LaPaglia's Harry Luce - journalist, adulterer and all-around ne'er-do-well - isn't
the centerpiece of the story. But he lurks about its perimeter, providing the link to
sordid humanity that keeps "Commandments" at least remotely in touch with our
planet...LaPaglia is refreshing vile and ultimately humanized."
---John Anderson |
"What a lot of stories
need, at their center, is a really rotten subordinate character to capture our hearts and
minds. "Othello" has Iago, for instance. In "Paradise Lost," Satan
manages to steal most of the scenes. In "Commandments"--a promising debut by
writer-director Daniel Taplitz--it's Anthony LaPaglia."
---John Anderson |
"Anthony LaPaglia, a De Niro for the
'90s, shuns feature-film fodder for a juicy television role...one of Hollywood's leading
character actors since his first film role in 1990...Robert Falls, who directed LaPaglia
last year in Broadway's "The Rose Tattoo," called him a leading actor in the
mold of Al Pacino or Robert De Niro who "came of age in the wrong decade."
---Daniel Howard Cerone
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| (In "The Custodian")"LaPaglia,
who reverts to his native Australian accent here, seems in danger of imploding from anger;
it's a brave and arresting performance."
"Anthony LaPaglia creates
impassioned performances that linger in people's minds long after the show ends."
---WCHS-TV8 |
"It seems like eons ago when this
column predicted a big future for Anthony LaPaglia, the only Australian male actor who can
do a convincing American accent."
---1996 Sydney Morning Herald article |
(In Brilliant Lies) "Anthony
LaPaglia's Gary is a compelling display of sleazy belligerence against the feline
self-satisfaction exuded by Gia's Susy and the quiet intelligence of Zoe Carides' Katy,
Susy's decent, ethical sister."
---Sandra Hall |
(In "Bulletproof Heart")
Rock-solid contemporary film noir thriller serves as a perfect example of an entertaining
film which did not earn the theatrical release it deserved. Its stars offer letter-perfect
performances, with LaPaglia cast as a jaded hit man and Rogers playing his tough, sleek
prey. "This may be the Body Heat for the '90s, with first-time director Mark Malone
practically redefining film noir in the process....With plenty of twists leading to the
breathless finale, Heart never stops thumping to a gloriously twisted beat."
---Larry Worth, New York Post |
ASIAN REVIEW OF
"Whispers In the Dark"
starring 芝姬莉寶 (Anthony LaPaglia)
女心理醫生夏安娜接觸光怪陸離的精神病人，
解構病人的性幻想、 性暴力、 綺夢。
現實同樣迷離怪異，愛人麥德格竟是病人艾依
芙的前度男友, 艾依芙引頸上吊,
麥德格的前妻亦上吊身亡，疑兇
尊尼墮樓致死，負責調查的探員被刺殺，麥德格又遭離奇車禍，
構成一重又一重的懸疑，真兇是誰?
(English Version):WHISPERS IN THE DARK - In this well-cast psycho-sexual thriller,
Gotham psychiatrist Sciorra begins getting turned on by tales of bondage and great sex
confided by her patient Deborah, a disturbing development she in turn confides to her
professional mentor Alan. To her surprise, Sciorra finds that her lover Jamey, a
straight-arrow pilot, is in fact the sex partner Deborah so deliciously describes. At the
same time, she finds Deborah murdered in a gallery. While investigating the case,
detective LaPaglia falls for Sciorra, and the whole case devolves into a guessing game.
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