Word: actor
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...seems that your career has progressed gradually over the years. Did you ever consider giving up acting? -Tala Woods, Jacksonville, Fla. I never considered giving up acting. I've always worked as an actor because I've taken scraps and made meals out of them. I think the fast-talking nature of some of my characters came from the fact that I tried to just keep talking until they pulled me off the set. Singles is a good example. I think I had maybe 1½ lines, and I turned it into a minute-and-a-half monologue...
...Reportedly first went to Mumbai, home to Bollywood, not to be an actor but to reconnect with an ex-girlfriend. They later married; Shah Rukh and Gauri Khan have two children. He is Muslim, she is Hindu...
...play to the gallery. More than an actor, I am a performer ... I'm a great believer - honestly so, shamelessly so, vulgarly so - that cinema is for entertainment. If you want to send messages, there's the postal service." - Business Times Singapore...
Kirtzman, for one, believes Madoff was bad from the beginning and scammed for so long that immorality became a way of life for him. But the curse to Madoff's victims is that he was a superlative actor, right up until his sentencing. "Standing there in his old, expensive suit, you could still see in him the discerning old wise man, reluctantly agreeing to take one more person's money," Kirtzman writes. Readers of these three accounts will fare better than those Madoff swindled. The books are $25 each, but you at least get a decent return for the investment...
...Blomkamp turn his science-fiction short Alive in Joburg into his first feature film. It would be set in Blomkamp's native South Africa, focus on the country's traumatic tradition of apartheid, have characters who speak in unfamiliar accents or unknown languages, boast no star power - the lead actor had never acted in a movie, and his costar is one of the digitized space creatures derisively called "prawns" - and bear a title that sounds less like an action movie than a highway sign. The picture might have been destined to play art houses, or to be tossed...