Word: actor-director
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Wilder directed some of Lemmon's most famous movies, including Some Like it Hot, The Apartment and The Fortune Cookie. The actor-director relationship spanned almost 20 years...
...American terms he's a little Clint Eastwood (actor-director), a dash of Gene Kelly (imaginative choreographer), a bit of Jim Carrey (rubbery ham) and a lot of the silent-movie clowns: Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton and Harold Lloyd. Says Chan fan Sylvester Stallone: "Jackie has elongated a genre that had grown pretty stale. He's infused films with humor and character-driven story while giving audiences these extraordinary stunts that are unparalleled anywhere in the world...
Administrators said they are particularly exasperated because the actor-director's people had approached President Neil L. Rudenstine earlier in the summer to suggest the showing. Initially, Nathans said, "I was delighted...
Thompson was to her manners born. Her mother is actress Phyllida Law, who plays the pruney maid in Peter's Friends and Hero's attendant Ursula in Much Ado; her father was actor-director Eric Thompson; Emma's younger sister Sophie was a successful child actress. Of her parents Emma says, "The main influence is that actors are so good with children. They do not patronize them -- perhaps because they are so close to that state of childishness." Emma's parents were certainly close to her. "Anything I was interested in made them happy," she says. "I had no rebellious...
HENRY V. Kenneth Branagh, 28, is the Olivier wanna-be of the '80s. In this version, keenly faithful to the famous 1944 film, the actor-director stakes his boldest claim yet to Lord Larry's title. The elite cast -- a veritable Burke's Peerage of British acting -- makes it a royal, enjoyable feast...