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Accepting his first and leading role in a “gay movie” was a potentially risky move for a novice actor, but it’s worked to Sandvoss’s advantage...
...movie’s soundtrack prominently features the work of such early alternative pioneers as Frank Black and Robert Pollard. Though the placement of the songs in the film can at times be awkward, Hoge explains that music was a large part of preparing himself, and his actors, for the film. He sent each actor books and music intended to help them with character development. For Gosling, it was the Magnetic Fields; for Spacey, Joni Mitchell; for Malone, the Pixies, who she admits to never having heard before her preparation started...
...come together with the hours of rehearsal to create something truly magical. Also, being out in front of an audience, hearing their reactions and knowing that you’re connecting with and somehow affecting them is always a huge rush. There really is a relationship between the actor and audience that can be exhilarating. I also love the whole process of taking on a character and finding a way to make her real, to lift her off the pages of the script and bring her to life...
...comic invention. With gifts too wide-ranging to be contained in one art form, he wrote hit plays (Romanoff and Juliet) and books of nonfiction and short stories. He could be an excellent film director (Billy Budd) and a serious Shakespearean (King Lear at Stratford, Ont.). He won Supporting Actor Oscars for Spartacus and Topkapi, and earned his greatest movie renown as Agatha Christie's Hercule Poirot, as in the film of Death on the Nile. His spirit was essentially impish (as on a comedy album for which he provided all the voices and sound effects); his greatest role...
...already got his own action figure and his own edition of Girls Gone Wild; he has made guest appearances in everything from Starsky and Hutch to The L Word. Now actor, producer, marketing maverick and--oh, yes--rapper Snoop Dogg has joined Sony Pictures Mobile to launch his own game for mobile phones. Snoop Dogg Boxing, available in April from most carriers, sets rudimentary fisticuffs to a Snoop Dogg sound track. Players (or should that be "playaz"?) jump in the ring and face a posse of pugilists, scoring points with punch combinations. If you make it to the final round...