Robert de Niro

From the wingman to the lovable bastard, portrayals of boys on film are not always complementary but usually consistent in their archetypes. Charlie Lyne of Ultra Culture and Beyond Clueless fame finds that he's fallen out of love with the male...

In Marathon Man, Dustin Hoffman plays a character denied three nights sleep; when he stumbled onto set, exhausted and true to method form, co-star Laurence Olivier quipped: "Have you tried acting, dear boy?"