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...like a classic sketch on Your Show of Shows, except that Lenny played all the parts: Sid Caesar's, Carl Reiner's, Howie Morris' and Imogene Coca's. He wasn't a great mimic ? all the voices had his nasal Long Island timbre ? but he was a confident actor. And since each routine tended to evolve as he performed it, Lenny was less a sick comic than a Method...
...watching oneself is, as Jackson claims, all actors' secret pleasure, Jackson distinguishes himself from his peers in two ways: he cops to vanity, and his vanity has a track record for dovetailing with popular taste. "My agent is always looking for movies to get me the Academy Award, but I don't think like that," says Jackson, whose films have taken in more money at the box office than those of any other actor in history. "I want the movies I'm in to remind me of things I spent Saturday afternoons watching as a kid and then went home...
...thing just doesn't make logical sense ..." He stops there in frustration, but Jackson has been known to bring a little bit of Shaft-like menace to the set. David Ellis, who directed Snakes and has worked as an assistant director on four other Jackson films, says of the actor, "Unless the director is a total jerk, he's always very respectful. But he's a tireless advocate for the film he read in the script and pictured in his head. He so wants to entertain people, and folks in the movie business often forget that's what our mission...
...does the recent history of stem-cell politics offer much encouragement to research advocates. The issue didn't help John Kerry much in 2004, though he gave Ron Reagan a prominent speaking spot at the Democratic Convention and appeared frequently in the final months of the campaign with actor-activist Christopher Reeve's widow Dana. A poll conducted by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation shortly after the presidential election found that more than half of Bush's voters favored broadening the federal policy to include using embryos that would otherwise be discarded by fertility clinics--but voted for him anyway...
DIED. Mako, 72, Oscar-nominated actor who, as co-founder of East West Players--the first Asian-American drama troupe--was hailed as "the godfather of Asian-American theater"; of esophageal cancer; in Somis, Calif. Born Makoto Iwamatsu in Kobe, Japan, he came to the U.S. as a teen and discovered acting. Roles for Asians then were demeaningly comic, written almost exclusively in pidgin English. But Mako's portrayal of Chinese coolie Po-han in 1966's The Sand Pebbles, although in broken English, rose above stereotype and won him an Oscar nomination...