It is not just painful, but it is also infuriating to see Ed Harris humiliated by having to deliver his wretched dialogue in the thriller ''Man on a Ledge.'' His character, David Englander, is an evil real estate tycoon given to screaming things like, ''There are two kinds of people in the world -- people who will do anything to get what they want...
You can trust Ed Harris to locate the essence of every character he portrays. And in ''That's What I Am,'' Mike Pavone's righteous reflection on bullying and tolerance, Mr. Harris's depiction of a saintly, soft-spoken, bow-tie-wearing middle-school teacher lends the movie a moral weight it probably couldn't have summoned had another actor played...
DEAR DIARY: A year ago Friday night, on the Manhattan-bound F train, I saw two female Santa Clauses obviously on their way to a gig. One says, ''What are we going to do?'' The other says, ''Don't worry, I have it covered,'' reaches into her Santa sack, roots around and pulls out ... a dreidel. Relieved, the first Santa says, ''Perfect.'' Jennifer...
Edward Allen "Ed" Harris (født 28. november 1950) er en amerikansk skuespiller, manuskriptforfatter og instruktør. Nomineret hele fire gange til en Oscar og vinder af en Golden Globe Award, samt en Screen Actors Guild Award. Ed Harris havde sin debut som filminstruktør i 2000 med filmen Pollock, hvor han også spillede hovedrollen som den amerikanske maler Jackson Pollock.