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...dance and drama and much of her time was spent in New Haven’s community theater and in drama-heavy summer camps; and throughout high school, she dedicated three hours each afternoon to a performing arts conservatory, where, as a senior, she began making the change from actor to director.This extensive background and dedication to the craft of theater has served her well in her time at Harvard, where she has had a large impact on the theater community as both an actor and a director. This fall, “Slavs!,” her third show...
...this “American Gigolo” found a “Pretty Woman,” only to discover she was a “Runaway Bride,” and ultimately, “Unfaithful.” Yep, this tap-dancing, piano-playing, Tibet-loving actor is the 2006 Hasty Pudding Man of the Year. But before we toast his achievements, we should take a look at some flops that weren’t “All That Jazz...
...Having first trained as an actor at Australia's National Institute of Dramatic Art, Freeman should know. He dropped out to direct, but the experience taught him the importance of long rehearsal periods, something he has campaigned for ever since. At the now-defunct Opera Factory, he was famous for training his singers in yoga, primal screaming and Butoh dance, and his productions successfully broke down the image of a singer plonked on stage. (Musically adventurous as well, Freeman will premiere a hip-hop opera based on the life of Libya's Colonel Muammar Gaddafi for the ENO in September...
WHAT THE BUZZ IS SAYING: That he's the sentimental favorite. That he's an actor's actor. But also that the contemporary relevance of Clooney's vehicle trumps the nostalgic pleasures of Giamatti's. And that, of course, he'll get an Oscar someday...
...THIS FAR: The usually suave and gorgeous actor put on weight (literally and figuratively) to play a tormented CIA operative trying to do the right thing in the morally and politically murky Middle East. Clooney is both commanding and sympathetic; his character's confusions and eventual tragedy mirror the region's much larger ones...