Krin, I'm not sure that this is the sort of performance you're after, but a stand-out for me has to be John Cleese's castle-bound french soldier in 'Monty Python & the Holy Grail' with dialogue rich in type-cast franca lingua (your mother was a hamster...I fart in your general direction...why do think I speak with this outrageuos accent?...etc) Bye the bye, Australian TV has recently seen the 'live' ER episode. It was heavily promoted as a *live* performance, albeit a few months after the actual event. I can only presume the episode replayed here was the third version recorded for syndication. There were certainly no obvious 'snafuus', although the direction wasn't as frenetic as normal. I thought it a very smart plotline to use 'cinema-verite' as the main visual style, to cover any shakes or out-of-focus occurences in the shooting pattern. It bodes well for the state of television drama generally when the major US networks and series can push the envelope like this and get viewer support. cheers RP ---- Online resources for film/TV studies may be found at ScreenSite http://www.tcf.ua.edu/screensite