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The film: “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf.” The stars: Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor. Each willing to take a Hollywood risk and portray the antithesis of their carefully crafted star personas. Willing to be as nasty and ugly as the Edward Albee script called for. Their expressions filled with emotion, frozen on film. I asked actor friends to mimic their faces. The actors start with the emotion, but then freeze in a still that morphs the emotion — perhaps becoming nastier, sardonic, or bemused.