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...energies into filmmaking, which turned out to be a better place for them than painting. In 1996 he directed Basquiat, about you-know-who, with its peerlessly funny impersonation of Andy Warhol by David Bowie. Before Night Falls,made four years later, brought an Oscar nomination for Best Actor to Javier Bardem, who played Reinaldo Arenas, an AIDS-stricken Cuban writer who committed suicide in New York City in 1990. Even before Schnabel began directing, Longo directed a film, Johnny Mnemonic, starring Keanu Reeves in a futuristic film noir. So did David Salle, the painter whose voyeuristic conjunctions and overlays...
...DIED. BARNEY MARTIN, 82, New York City detective-turned-actor who appeared in movies (Mel Brooks' The Producers), stage musicals (The Fantasticks) and, most recently, as Jerry Seinfeld's curmudgeonly father Morty on NBC's Seinfeld; in Studio City, California...
...British Poet Laureate Cecil Day-Lewis and actress Jill Balcon. She's the daughter of playwright Arthur Miller and photographer Inge Morath. They met in 1996 at an early screening of The Crucible, a film of her father's play. By that time Day-Lewis, already an Oscar-winning actor (for My Left Foot), had been offered, and had turned down, a role in one of Rebecca Miller's movies. Their new film, The Ballad of Jack and Rose--an unusual love story between a hippie father and daughter who seem to teeter on the brink of incest as they...
...Lewis also carries the tattoo of his own legend: the actor who goes beyond method to near madness, so encased in his films' characters that he stays in them on the set and off; the star who takes off years at a time to work as a cobbler. (Before the new film was shot, he helped build the house Jack and Rose live in. During shooting, he lived by himself in a shack on the beach.) Yet, for a reputed recluse, Day-Lewis is very chatty. He and Miller are easy with each other, looking at each other as they...
...What I've learned about directing is how to say the least amount you can say and find a way to communicate that to the actors. I only cast people that I trust. And then there is a mutual trust. Because it's not that I'm not composing shots, but without the actor I really don't have anything. All my work is about character. It's all about what goes on behind the eyes of an actor. If the actor feels hemmed in or emotionally stopped up because of what I'm doing, then I'm actually killing...