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...film star. “This is obviously not the kind of thing that comes my way quite often,” says Wilson of his role in “Vacancy,” which also stars Kate Beckinsale. The move is something of a stretch for an actor who prides himself primarily on the cult films of his earlier career. “Sometimes people say, ‘Why don’t you do more stuff like ‘The Tenenbaums’ and ‘Bottle Rocket’ as opposed...
...schedule, order of things. The only difference is in the scale and the budget,” he says. O’Keefe was in the Hasty Pudding Theatricals, the Lampoon, and sang with the Krokodiloes. Still, the transition can be jarring.Dan A. Cozzens ’03, an actor who prefers to define himself as a person in search of artistic pursuits, moved to New York six months ago after trying his hand at Boston theater. Contrasting New York with Harvard, he points out, “Here, you are bound by typecasting. At Harvard, I played...
...Prolific actor and activist Ed Asner is accustomed to speaking his mind.Asner recently played the role of William Jennings Bryan in Peter Goodchild’s “The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial,” which was hosted by the Institute of Politics on Monday night. Perhaps best known as Lou Grant on the “Mary Tyler Moore Show,” Asner has earned seven Emmys, more than any other male actor. Produced by L.A. Theatre Works under the direction of Susan Albert Loewenberg, “Monkey Trial” is adapted from...
Everyone saw Forest Whitaker win the Oscar for Best Actor, but few saw his performance onscreen. Now, at home, viewers can see what all the fuss was about. They'll find that Idi Amin Dada, the Ugandan dictator Whitaker plays with charismatic power, is a secondary character in this fact-based drama about a Scottish doctor (James McAvoy) testing his scruples against the seductions of power. The film replays the old Graham Greene trope of Europeans acting out their fascination and guilt amid Third World chaos. In this case, that makes for a tepid and implausible sideshow to the immense...
...Every public figure - athlete, pundit, actor - now has two audiences: the one he or she is addressing and the one that will eventually read the blogs or see the viral video. A few have adapted, like Stephen Colbert, whose routine at last year's White House Correspondents' Association dinner was decried by attendees as rude and shrill - but made him a hero to his YouTube audience. Imus, a 30-plus-year veteran of radio shock, seemed to underestimate the power of the modern umbrage-amplification machine. The day after his remarks, Imus said dismissively on air that people needed...