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...auditions or rehearsals, the students brandished impromptu props like a plastic skull, originally a Halloween decoration, that stood in for “Poor Yorick” and a blown-up rubber glove with a hand-drawn face that impersonated the ghost of Hamlet’s father. Actors drew parts randomly from a bowl, before each scene, to give them the opportunity to play more than one role. In a room laced with glowing Christmas decorations, the actors took the stage in front of the fireplace, completing the entirety of “Hamlet” in only...
...investment. That return is employee satisfaction--assuming that people like to work for companies that do good, a belief notoriously difficult to prove. (Citing internal surveys, Swartz says his employees identify strongly with the company's human-rights positions.) That reasoning also supports Timberland's current drive with actor Don Cheadle to raise awareness about the genocide raging in Darfur, Sudan. Although it doesn't cost the company much, the campaign could be dismissed as the sort of self-indulgent do-gooding or splashy p.r. drive that irritates some CSR activists as much as it does the movement's detractors...
...giant pink sunglasses. But rather than trying to extend his 15 minutes, he's still in rural Pennsylvania working on a collection and, he says, turning down offers to cash in on his fame. "People throw scripts at me for the dumbest s___," he says. "I'm not an actor! I don't want to play Santa Claus' gay assistant. I have to buckle down and be the designer that I went on the show to be." (O.K., he's not a total shrinking violet: his where-is-he-now? special, Project Jay, airs on Bravo in February...
...jargon with authority while simultaneously showing the reasoning behind ethically ambiguous decisions. Jeffery Wright’s (“Angels in America”) smooth portrayal of lawyer Bennett Holiday serves as another anchor, showing that a good side does not guarantee a good man. Several talented supporting actors, including Chris Cooper (“Adaptation”) and Amanda Peet (“A Lot Like Love”), make sure that scenes never lose persuasive authority. Like “Traffic,” Gaghan keeps the focus on his characters, literally and figuratively. In numerous shots...
...miraculously spared from teetering off a cliff during their drive home from Christmas at Grandma’s; however, it largely focuses on the after-effects of tense family dynamics. Drawing on Bunraku traditions, each child in the car is represented by a puppet operated by an actor who will later play that child as an adult. After almost falling off the cliff, however, the siblings grow up to experience other personal tragedies. One sister has an unwanted pregnancy, another sister struggles with her homosexuality, while the brother, Stephen, is dying of AIDS contracted on a post-breakup sexual binge...