Has the taste of the american public been so diminished by over the top hysterics and overemoting and "method" that a performer as restrained and intelligent and *talented* as Gary Cooper is now considered BAD?
Go out and rent HIGH NOON and *watch* it...then tell me he's anything less than one of the finest actors this country has ever produced.
Jesus...just because an actor isn't ripping his shirt of and yelling "STELLLLLLLLAAAAAA" at the top of his lungs, somehow he's "bad."