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Outside of reading the script and learning a text completely, a great actor will do an enormous amount of research for his or her character. In performing a piece from Tom Griffin’s A Boy Next Door, Kargman extensively researched the daily life of autistics, the emotional structure of autism and the scientific rationale of the disease...
...Travolta In 2008? In the new film A Love Song for Bobby Long, John Travolta plays a startlingly gray-haired literature professor on the skids [Nov. 8]. The actor is used to physical transformations. In 1998 TIME reported on how he turned himself into a familiar President to play Governor Jack Stanton in the movie Primary Colors [March...
...website, Branson already has a waiting list of more than 7,000 people who are apparently willing to pay the $190,000 price for a suborbital flight--more than enough to cover Virgin's investment. Among the pledged passengers are former Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Dave Navarro and actor William Shatner. As more people sign on, says Branson, Virgin will be able to lower the price: "This isn't just a pipe dream. We will get this to the point where thousands of people can go into space." He and Rutan plan to be aboard the first Virgin Galactic...
...Boston's curse-reversing 2004 World Series run--with locker-room footage and sound via microphones set by the bench and diamond--brings new detail to baseball's most dramatic postseason. Sport contests can lose their luster once they wrap. But this lively DVD, narrated by Boston-bred actor Denis Leary, captures the suspense, and chats with manager Terry Francona and former Sox like Pudge Fisk and Bill Buckner exorcise the ghosts all over again. --By David Thigpen
...film about betrayal was a tough way to get back in the game. "I'm the anti-Method actor. As soon as we finish a scene, I need to go back to being myself, because it freaks me out. But it was hard not to take this home with me," she says. "I would feel cheated on when I went home. There were weekend nights I would lie in bed instead of going out with my friends...