Only 38 Words, But Ellen Burstyn Makes Them Count

Hollywood Reporter’s Ray Richmond manages to accomplish the precarious act of scolding a well-respected, award-winning acting icon without condescension or the slightest whiff of nyah-nyah. Ellen Burstyn, who’s enjoying her umpteenth nomination for something or other (okay, it’s an Emmy nod), is on the screen for 14 seconds, and Ray thinks this is, to use the word of the moment, unseemly. He must have played the screener a few times, as he gets her word count in HBO’s Mrs. Harris as exactly 38 words.