Word: actor
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Kevin Costner is the man of the moment and a star out of his time. What other actor would think to achieve rampant movie fame by playing a Soviet spy and two baseball fanatics? For Costner, though, the improbable risk was a good career move. As Eliot Ness in The Untouchables, he played the straightest arrow in Prohibition-era Chicago and made saintliness sexy. As Tom Farrell, the cryptic intelligence officer in 1987's No Way Out, he brought devious modernity to a character right out of a '40s suspense novel. As Crash Davis, the bush-league catcher...
...would thus take a Parisian time to get into the spirit of a Los Angeles traffic school where motorists ticketed for a moving violation may attend eight hours of driving instruction in lieu of court. At the newcomer's school in the San Fernando Valley, an actor named Dick Corbin provided diverting impersonations of a woman driver on the freeway talking on the car phone, eating lunch and doing her lashes in the visor mirror all at the same time...
...GRAPES OF WRATH. Grittier than the movie, as panoramic as Steinbeck's novel, this 35-actor adaptation by Chicago's Steppenwolf troupe lights up California's La Jolla Playhouse stage on the way to a late-June run at London's National Theater...
...GRAPES OF WRATH. Grittier than the movie, as panoramic as Steinbeck's novel, this 35-actor adaptation by Chicago's Steppenwolf troupe lights up the La Jolla Playhouse stage on the way to a late June run at London's National Theater...
...list of nominees to the Board of Overseers includes Secretary of Commerce Elizabeth H. Dole, then-Democratic National Committee Chair Paul G. Kirk '60 and actor John A. Lithgow '67. HRAAA members claim that the alumni association nominated the celebrities only to draw attention away from pro-divestment candidates...