American character actor and writer Wallace Shawn has one of those amusingly homely faces just made for show business and, through stage, TV, and film, smartly managed to turn himself into a winner with his loser-type looks. Woody Allen's character in the movie Manhattan (1979) amusingly describes Wallace's character as a homunculus, which is a pretty fair description of this predominantly bald, wan, pucker-mouthed, butterball-framed, slightly lisping, gent. Wallace made his film debut playi ...[Read Story]