Word: acted
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...students in the Martinez Junior High School gymnasium, just east of San Francisco and not far from his home in San Rafael. For nearly 20 years, he has melded his comic gift with his passion for social work and has somehow made a career of it, taking his act to schools from Washington to Ketchikan, Alaska. And never has he been in greater demand than since the school shootings at Columbine. Nowadays, he books appearances and sells videos on the Web at SavingOurSchools.org...
Multi-instrumentalist Moby, whose new album Play (V2) is heavily sample-based, is skeptical about the idea that deejays will ever be regarded as true artists. "I think being a deejay is a creative act, but I have a hard time seeing it as a musical act," says Moby, who worked as a deejay for about eight years and recently deejayed at the MTV Video Music Awards. "I see a good deejay as being a really amazing technician as opposed to a being a musician." Still, a good deejay can be a canny promoter. At the MTV awards, Moby says...
Contact consists of three spoken one-act dramas--Stroman calls them short stories--performed by dancer-actors and accompanied by a delectably eclectic jukebox of recordings by everybody from Benny Goodman and Stephane Grappelli to Robert Palmer and the Squirrel Nut Zippers. Nobody onstage sings a note. In Swinging, Fragonard's 1767 painting of an aristocratic young lady (Stephanie Michels) frolicking in a forest glade becomes a real-life menage a trois even kinkier than it looks. Did You Move?, set in an Italian restaurant in Queens circa 1954, is a bittersweet vignette about an unhappy housewife (Karen Ziemba...
...Evon (her cover name), a repressed Mormon with an Olympic bronze medal. In what sport? Don't ask. Turow seeds his story with delayed disclosures and surprises, including an inspired variation on one of dramaturgy's soundest rules: if you show a dangerous implement in the first act, it must be used in the last...
...sort of fishing guide who takes you to the fish, points out the fish, tells you to keep your rod pointed down and when to "strip"--tug the line. All that baby-sitting will produce, he says, is a caught fish. What Chouinard wants to produce is an act of understanding. He teaches me about the different water speeds at three different depths. He shows me how to "mend the line," to slow up the motion of the fly. After 20 minutes of correcting and watching me, he suddenly leaves, and I do not notice his leaving...