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We Need More Actors With Crazy Voices

Or at least more that sound like haunted toys.

Of course, Goth isn’t alone in the current landscape of crazy voices: We have one of this summer’s other stars, Austin Butler, still loping around with the ghost of Elvis inside him, using him like a ventriloquist dummy. To listen back to movies from 20 or 40 or 60 years ago is to hear a whole symphony of voices, as best exemplified yesterday as people celebrated the fairy-tale flutter of the recently passed Shelley Duvall. In reality, any gathering of actors on a red carpet should sound like an episode of The Muppet Show, rich and textured with accents and rasp and buoyancy and pitch, reminding us that what we see on the screen is a performance.

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