Word: actorisms
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Dennis Quaid remembers the Alamo. "I used to play the Battle of San Jacinto as a kid," says the Houston-born star, above center, with Spanish actor JORDI MOLLA, right. Quaid, with the aid of some happenin' muttonchops and the largest standing movie set in North America (50-plus acres), plays General Sam Houston in The Alamo, due out Christmas Day. Directed by fellow Texan John Lee Hancock, who teamed up with Quaid in 2002's The Rookie, this account of the Lone Star State's battle for independence from Mexico shares little with the 1960 John Wayne film...
That gift has won him (in these pages two years ago) the title of America's Best Actor--though, he jokes, "I don't think I've ever been in danger of being America's Best Movie Star." Or America's best-behaved one. That scar, for instance: it's the memento of a bar fight with a superbuff gym fetishist--a "mirror athlete," Penn calls him. In 1987 the actor did a month in jail for bopping an extra. His four-year marriage to Madonna made for all manner of naughty headlines. He has lost a few industry friends...
...Grams, which won Penn the Best Actor award at the Venice Film Festival, traces a circle of pain similar to the one in Mystic River. Paul (Penn) is a math professor whose life is saved by a heart transplant. He learns that the heart came from a man killed with his two daughters in a hit-and-run accident. He joins the man's widow (Naomi Watts) in seeking out the driver (Benicio Del Toro) and considering whether the inadvertent killer should live...
...People just lie to you all the time. I hate that,” she said. “I think sometimes the actor in me suffered because of the producer in me…It was a very strange experience...
...Activities: Studied law, according to childhood friend Kevin Arnold. Years after starting college, he was “still allergic to everything.” Year of Graduation: 1978 If Only Real Life Were So Kind: After “The Wonder Years” ended, Josh Saviano, the actor who played Paul, graduated from Yale in 1998 and is now a paralegal at a New York City law firm...