Anatomy of an Actor Studies the Greatest Actors’ Crafts

Hello Yoav,

I did read your ed. kicking off this months focus back when it first went up. I’ve also read the cars and actors pieces which Petrolicious has published since then, and yes, I also read the piece about the Mini and liked it very much because it’s about a car…all good with that. But your original piece introducing this months focus says that you would be “shining a proverbial spotlight (pardon the pun) on the cars and characters that Hollywood has made larger than life”. Perhaps I misunderstood you. I thought that, since there are so many movies and TV shows that Hollywood has produced with cars featuring prominently, that you were going to focus on the stars and cars [b]together[/b], not run some pieces about actors that has no relationship whatsoever to anything remotely to do with cars.
Why not look more in depth at Steve McQueen, Paul Newman, James Garner, Jay Leno, Tim Allen and others who are true car guys? Did you know Jeremy Irons has driven in the Mille Miglia? With so much truly car-guy movies and people to focus on, I guess I just didn’t see the reason for the piece above. Still don’t.

I’ve appreciated all of the above actors in various of their films, but honestly, if I wanted to read about these actors, I’d have gone to a movie buff website. I come to Petrolicious because I am a car guy. I enjoy cars and appreciate stories about them and the people who drive them. There’s been other items on Petrolicious that don’t have much to do with cars/bikes but they’ve at least been somewhat related. This piece isn’t (and frankly, I don’t much care about the other remotely related items either). I hope this doesn’t represent the direction this website is going or you’ll lose me to sites that focus consistently on great cars and the people that drive them.