Word: actor-director
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...grudge. And if the glory days of the nation's art film are gone, the export industry for filmed entertainment has never been more robust. Every kid cherishes Pokémon. Every lurker in specialized video stores knows the "violent pink" sex melodramas. Anime is everywhere. And actor-director "Beat" Takeshi Kitano is the tough guy du jour...
...first film as actor-director, Kitano played a policeman too violent for his department; in his next, the 1990 Boiling Point, he's Uehara, a gangster too violent for the yakuza. The movie is mainly about two baseball-crazy kids who run afoul of the mob; Kitano shows up for about a half hour before some unfriendly types splatter him across his car upholstery. But this wild man had it coming. In an interlude between gunplay, he watches a couple have sex. "My turn," he chirps. He pushes the woman aside?and jumps...
AILING. CHRISTOPHER REEVE, 48, paralyzed actor-director and tenacious champion of spinal-cord research; with a broken left thigh bone that snapped during routine physical therapy; in Los Angeles. Because of his paralysis, Reeve has bones that are especially brittle. His dream of walking by his 50th birthday, he admitted in June, is somewhat illusory: "2002 was a thing I put forward as a way to motivate the scientists...
...break this to you, Frank," a longtime adversary tells Eastwood in Space Cowboys, "but you're an old man." No need to tell Eastwood; he knows. As a sleuth in True Crime and In the Line of Fire, and as a career criminal in Unforgiven and Absolute Power, the actor-director has dramatized the perils and grace of something we all do (if we're lucky): age. His breath is short, his trigger finger is arthritic, and the young women in his life are more likely to be his daughters or his bosses than a hot amour. Yet even...
...Actor-director Brad Armstrong--the only porn star to ever change his name to Brad from Rod--says the trend will continue because "in mainstream you're seeing a lot more nude stuff and a lot more sexually explicit films. That's piqued some interest." And Candida Royalle, a '70s porn star who makes female-oriented erotica through her company, Femme Productions, says advertising, movies and TV have made porn seem less shocking: "If people are going to have sex thrown in their face, then they want the real thing...