Word: actor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Last year, a student production of Lillian Hellman's Toys in the Attic featured a white student in the role of Henry, a white woman's Black lover. "I couldn't find a Black actor," the play's director explained at the time...
Many directors agree that they cast roles with particular physical types in mind. While an actor's physical type is only one of the factors that directors say they consider, some directors concede that it could be a reason why more Black actors are not cast...
Brian Williams '88, a Black actor who appeared in a Kirkland House production of Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat, says that none of the Black actors he knows feels "frustrated" by a lack of opportunities. But Walker says, "There is a large number of Black women who would love to act" but have not been able to land roles...
...contempt for projecting, at this ! late date, a ludicrous cold war stereotype -- the Soviet as gibbering sadist -- and a certain amount of comment for going into release just as the Soviets are withdrawing from Afghanistan. But what is the spirit of glasnost compared with the needs of a successful actor's ego and his fans' expectations? Somebody has to keep the priorities straight around here...
...this a lovely day? Jerome Kern once summed up Berlin's place in & American popular music by observing: "Irving Berlin has no place in American music. He is American music." Way back when, George M. Cohan spotted the appeal of the man who had "named himself after an English actor and a German city." Berlin, said the Yankee doodle dandy, "writes a song with a good lyric, a lyric that rhymes, good music, music you don't have to dress up to listen to. He is uptown, but he is there with the old downtown hard sell...