Word: acted
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...J.T.T., this role barely differs from his normal schtick on "Home Improvement" it might as well be another hour of "TGI Friday" on ABC. Part of the problem is that he's a teen trying to act 21-he simply looks too young to be playing a college student. This stretches the believability of the story from the beginning, when the caption "Palisades College" flashes onto the screen as we see Jake and his freshfaced sidekick, Ian, walking past a row of lockers...
When I think of Edward Albee, I think of the psychological explorations of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf. The first act of his last play, The Seascape, fulfills that generalization remarkably well. It opens with a married couple bickering. Charlie (John Beard) and Nancy (Nicole Charbonneau), just like the pair in Woolf--they are past middle age and frustrated by the stagnancy into which their lives have fallen. Nancy is devastated by it and Charlie is burdened by her insistence that he empathize with her misery. Soon another couple arrives whose own personal issues mirror and illuminate those...
Once I stopped resisting the idea of Leslie and Sarah as ludicrous and illogical, I began to appreciate them. Their characters were both the best-written and best-acted part of the play. With their entrance towards the end of the first act, they invigorated what had been a tedious melodrama about one couple's relationship (something we all see enough of at home) and turned it into a comic drama with abrasive edges. Leslie and Sarah put a necessary stop to Nancy's whining and Charlie's obstinance. They interrupted a fight which easily could have continued inconclusively...
PHOENIX--The Arizona Diamondbacks, in the spectacular final act of their ambitious offseason pursuit of free agents, agreed yesterday to a $52.4 million, four-year contract with Randy Johnson...
...inhibitors attempt to act as a stop valve,inserting defective nucleotides that are unable tobind with other molecules, thus ending the growthof a new chain of DNA and preventing thereproduction...