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...defendants access to avowed terrorists, perhaps inspiring the government in the future to try all such cases in military tribunals. Unless Moussaoui's prosecutors yank the case into a tribunal, it would mean that they would have to pursue much reduced charges. Instead of proving Moussaoui to be an actor in a plot that murdered thousands, they would have to accuse him of simply being a me-too schemer whose efforts went nowhere...
...that gays are as ubiquitous on television as Law & Order spin-offs, actor-playwright HARVEY FIERSTEIN is set to break new gender-bending ground. Fierstein, who won a Tony Award for his performance as a plus-size hausfrau in Broadway's Hairspray, has signed on to play a divorced mother of two in an ABC pilot. More Roseanne than Will & Grace, the show will include "no acknowledgment that this is a man playing a woman, no winking at the camera," says Craig Zadan, who is developing the project with Neil Meron, his co-executive producer on the film Chicago. Fierstein...
Cross-dressing comedian and actor Eddie Izzard’s show “Sexie” finishes its run in Boston tonight. Well-known for his witty and often surreal humor, he has been called the “funniest man in pretty much all of the known universe,” “a human search engine,” “a surrealist maestro of historical and scientific trivia,” and “a one-man Monty Python crew.” In between tours, Izzard has been earning rave reviews...
...remaining two poles of President Bush's "Axis of Evil," it's been a good week to be less of a bad actor. First, President Bush Sunday signaled his readiness to sign security guarantees if North Korea agrees to end its nuclear program, and repeatedly emphasized that the U.S. has no intention of invading. Then, on Tuesday, Iran accepted a deal brokered by Britain, France and Germany requiring a more intrusive inspection regime to satisfy international concerns over the potential for Tehran's nuclear energy program to camouflage a bomb program. Two prime candidates for further testing of the Bush...
...hero has a familiar cohort of misfits: sassy kid, young woman, saintly monk and an old man with one last battle in him. I don't know if you can drawl in Mandarin, but Jiang Wen is sure-as-shootin' John Wayne, the gruff leader who tells his supporting-actor pals, "I don't want to turn your wives into widows," and rides off alone. (Of course they follow...