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...trivia game known as “Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon,” the object is to start with a random actor, link to one of that actor??s co-stars, and then—in only five more steps—get to the ubiquitous actor Kevin Bacon. In 2007, two Vanderbilt professors set out to find Bacon’s legal scholar analogue: someone famous who collaborates often in a variety of genres and who gives no sign of slowing down anytime soon. The man they selected is today’s most frequently...
...namesake: Cadillacs. Complementary to Brody is Jeffrey Wright as the womanizing, ruthless, and somehow lovable Muddy Waters. Although it appears that Wright is mimicking the jowly facial expressions of Brando’s Don Corleone a little too closely, his believable performance shows his range as an actor??something his meager part in the recent “Quantum of Solace” did not. Together, Chess and Waters—along with songwriter Willie Dixon, played by Cedric the Entertainer—begin to construct the Chess empire. Dixon’s voiceover, which opens and closes...
...newsroom. It consists of a few desks, chairs, some Harvard emergency red phones, and newspaper clippings hanging on the walls with some crumpled on the floor. Given its small, seemingly simple set, “The Front Page” successfully utilizes sound, lighting, and the actor??s dialogue to convey the fast-paced action of a newsroom. Despite the show’s dramatic scenes of internal struggle and frantic reporting, “The Front Page” is also a comedy. Characters fire off jokes rapidly, phones ring incessantly, and multiple characters talk over...
...also presents an ease with the stage that is especially hard to portray in such an intimate script. Because “Stop Kiss” doesn’t boast any theatrical pyrotechnics or thrilling plot twists, the task of drawing the audience in depends solely on the actor??s ability to connect with the audience’s emotions. A story which might drag under the influence of less talented actors remains engaging throughout. The leads’ performances are complemented by the rest of the cast. Jack Cutmore-Scott ’10, who plays...
...turned to him as a steady hand to stabilize Harvard’s core institutions.BACKING THROUGH LIFEPilbeam was born in Brighton, England on November 21, 1940, one month after the end of the Battle of Britain. After high school—where he was both a runner and an actor??Pilbeam won a scholarship to Cambridge. Though he initially planned to study medicine, his interests shifted to anthropology.In 1963, he crossed the Atlantic to attend Yale on a fellowship, though he returned to Cambridge within two years “immunized by America...