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...cash reward. Willis, 48, and his rock band the Accelerators performed for soldiers (haven't they suffered enough?), who sat atop helicopters and in humvees on various Army bases in the sweltering Iraqi desert. "If you catch him, just give me four seconds with Saddam Hussein," the actor told a cheering crowd as he promised $1 million to the person who nabs the dictator. And if Saddam won't talk, perhaps Bruce could play...
...kids are won over, as Linklater and White must have been to the idea of going straight for Rudin. Black's energy is at once harnessed and released in a role that should earn the actor the stardom predicted since his supporting role in High Fidelity. Preening and wheedling, playing to the camera like Mick Jagger to a microphone, Black gives this unaffected, four-on-the-floor In-School Special the ardor, and innocence, of that old-time rock 'n' roll. --By Richard Corliss
DIED. GORDON JUMP, 71, TV actor best known as the bumbling boss of a radio station in the 1978-82 sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati and later as the lonely, restless Maytag repairman, replacing Jesse White in one of TV's longest-running ad campaigns; of complications from pulmonary fibrosis; in Los Angeles...
...played everything from a low-life English thief to an Arab prince to a Jedi sage, but in a 62-year career, Alec Guinness never played Alec Guinness. This most chameleonlike of actors did his best to keep his true self hidden from the camera and from the world. Three years after his death, biographer Piers Paul Read aims to explode that subterfuge in Alec Guinness: The Authorised Biography (Simon & Schuster; 632 pages). He succeeds at a superficial level, uncovering plenty of unpalatable truths about Guinness. Sadly, Read brings us no closer to understanding the actor's art. The mask...
...didn’t have to go through Common Casting, because How I Learned to Drive is a pre-season show. We did casting in the spring and got a grant from the Gilbert and Sullivan Players, and they’ve been wonderful collaborators. Common Casting is so actor-friendly. It can be hard for directors, because there are so many talented actors and you have to share. But, I feel like Common Casting gets so many more people to try out for shows that directors have to benefit...