Word: actor
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...window after his fleeing ex-girlfriend, shouting derogations that make up part of his terrific repertoire of one-liners. He then stops, turns away from the window, dejected, and says, "Life is a shit sandwich, and every day you take another bite." There are no bad parts, only bad actors. O'Keefe is a good actor...
Michael J. Fox is a cute guy and a skillful actor. Jay McInerney's Bright Lights, Big City was a cute novel and a polished one when it was all the rage four years ago. Wrapping them up together was not an entirely unreasonable movie-packaging idea. It arrives, however, looking like something that has been kicking around too long in the dead-letter office...
...institutes to preserve his country's arts, its scriptures and its medical traditions. In recent years he has begun to race around the world like a Buddhist John Paul II -- lecturing at Harvard, meeting the Pope and attending to his flock, be they unlettered peasants or the American actor Richard Gere (a student of Buddhism since 1982). Always inclined to see the good in everything, he feels that exile has in some respects been a blessing. "When we were in Tibet, there were certain ceremonial activities that took up a lot of time, but the substance was -- not much...
...Best Actor Michael Douglas William hurt Marcello Mastroianni Jack Nicholson Robin WilliamsBest Actress Cher Glenn Close Holly Hunter Sally Kirkland Meryl Streep Best Supporting Actor Albert Brooks Sean Connery Morgan Freeman Vincent Gardenia Denzel Washington Best Supporting Actress Norma Aleandro Anne Archer Olympia Dukakis Anne Ramsey Ann Sothern Best Director Bernardo Bertolucci John Boorman Lasse Hallstrom Adrian Lyne Norman Jewison Best Picture Broadcast News Fatal Attraction Hope and Glory The Last Emperor Moonstruck Gary L. Susman Arts Editor Michael Douglas Cher Sean Connery Olympia Dukakis Bernardo Bertolucci Broadcast News Aline Brosh Arts Staff WriterMichael Douglas Holly Hunter Sean Connery Olympia...
Onstage physical stresses can be as fierce as any endured on the football field or basketball court. Actor Mark Frawley, late of Broadway's Starlight Express, had to barrel-jump over five people in the show's opening number. "You're wearing two 4-lb. skates and a costume weighing 25 lbs.," he notes. "In order to clear the people, I had to get my speed up to 35 m.p.h. It was a knee killer." Musicians face peril as well. Pinched nerves and muscle cramps caused by repetitive hand motions are common. Violinists suffer everything from fiddler's neck rash...