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...biggest moneymakers. He's also a doting husband and dad who has vowed never to spend more than two nights away from Hill and their three young girls. Now, with this week's opening of his family-friendly movie Flicka, Tim McGraw can add "lead actor" to his titles. McGraw, 39, talked with TIME's Jeff Chu about parenting, politics and the secret to the success of his 10-year marriage...
...July, actor-director Mel Gibson was pulled over for drunk driving, but really shot himself in the foot when he decided to launch into a frothing anti-Semitic tirade. A dubiously contrite Gibson later explained that, in a state of drunken fury, he had said things he did not believe to be true and which he found “despicable.” There was already some evidence of Gibson’s anti-Semitism, from his equivocations about the Holocaust to his pornographically violent film, “The Passion of the Christ,” which depicts...
...would hardly expect an actor who recently performed a 25-minute monologue at the Loeb Experimental Theater to be shy, but Jack E. Fishburn ’08 seems possessed of a certain soft-voiced, secretive tendency. It’s only on our way out of Adams Dining Hall that the English and American Literature and Languages concentrator and Adams resident deigns to mention, ever so quietly, that he “sort of went to Eton.” Or that one of his motivations for attending a college outside his native Britain was the fact that he?...
Luckily for the actor, his own head seems to have retained its normal size despite the fact Harvard theater has become quite pro-Fishburn in recent years. After a marathon of appearances on Harvard stages that culminated with his participation in three Harvard-Radcliffe Dramatic Club (HRDC) shows last semester, Fishburn has restricted himself to just one play this term, describing it as “methodone to the sort of heroin.” Yet given the intensity of the work Fishburn put into the production—where the previously mentioned monologue constituted the entirety...
...Swan Song” and Bennett’s “Playing Sandwiches.”In the Johnson directed “Swan Song,” Jesse W. Barron ’08 played the role of Wasill Svletlovldoff, an actor past his prime who wallows in alcohol and laments his wasted life. Barron handled the emotions with such poignancy that it excused the actor from his occasional flubbing of lines. His entire performance was tinged with an ironic humor that was absolutely delicious and would have been welcomed in even greater doses. The one problematic element...