He was very, very good in The Sure Thing. He was even better in The Shawshank Redemption. And even though there were incredibly annoying aspects of it, his first movie as writer-director, Dead Man Walking, is an accomplished and powerful piece of work. However…he has become a horribly mannered actor. Horribly. HORRIBLY!!!! Almost as mannered as an actor as Leon Wieseltier is as a writer. Actually, they would make a wondrous team. Tim Robbins could play Leon Wieseltier in the acclaimed biopic, I Am Rushdie (a sentence once composed by Wieseltier in response to the anti-Salman fatwa that, in its humorless and melodramatic posturing, may be the worst three words ever written).