Word: actorisms
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...kindred spirit in Towne, whose scripts for Shampoo, The Two Jakes, Tequila Sunrise and other films create nearly as dense an overview of Southern California as August Wilson did of Pittsburgh, Pa. And Towne was lucky in his casting of Hayek, who always smolders intelligently, and Farrell. The actor can be roguish, annoying, sexy, loving and lost--Bandini to a T. Towne is more trusting of them than he is of the book's plot; toward the end he seems to mistake Fante's Camilla for Garbo's Camille. But the moments the olive-skinned lovers spend together give...
DIED. DENNIS WEAVER, 81, gangly cowpoke actor best known as the limping sidekick in Gunsmoke and as the titular Manhattan cowboy cop in the 1970s series McCloud; in Ridgway, Colo. The prolific Weaver had leading roles in 40 films, including Orson Welles' Touch of Evil and the 1971 highway thriller Duel, directed by an up-and-comer named Steven Spielberg. A committed environmentalist, Weaver spent the past 16 years living in an Earthship--a 10,000-sq.-ft. house made of tin cans and tires...
DIED. DARREN MCGAVIN, 83, movie-set painter turned actor who played a streetwise crime reporter in the 1970s TV series Kolchak: The Night Stalker and the Old Man, Ralphie Parker's curmudgeonly dad, in the 1983 classic A Christmas Story; in Los Angeles. He won an Emmy in 1990 for playing the title character's father in Murphy Brown...
...know where I fit in. I don't know what people want from me. I'm the most out-of-work actor I know. In the last two years I've basically taken meetings for a living...
...thought about sports management. As a 4-year-old, I didn't say I wanted to be an actor. Acting found me. I thought maybe I should try to find it again...