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...entertaining us. Forget all the hogwash about their being "a celebration of the TV business" - once an awards show occupies three-plus hours of national television, with paid advertisements, its sole duty is to amuse and never bore us. (This is why I've never felt sorry for any actor or actress who goes over the acceptance-speech limit and gets played off stage: if they want to give long, self-indulgent, weepy speeches, they can give the awards at a private, untelevised ceremony at a nice restaurant in L.A. and talk as long as they want...
Sudden death is always shocking, but there was something particularly unsettling about the way actor John Ritter died last week. He suffered what is known as an aortic dissection, an uncommon condition in which the major artery that carries blood from the heart to the rest of the body basically tears itself apart. More precisely, blood, which is propelled by the beating heart, gets between layers of the arterial wall and pushes them apart, moving down the blood vessel like a run racing down a nylon stocking...
...playing a rogue CIA agent the way Johnny Depp does? He's polite, dry witted, a bit of a gourmet, but also a master schemer and a psycho who thinks nothing of offing a chef who has offended him. It's an alarmingly funny performance by a fabulously daring actor, and it sets the tone for a movie that is not to be taken seriously--except as a bedazzling step forward in the admittedly amoral aesthetics of violence...
Only a few weeks ago, California Republicans were giddy over the idea that Arnold Schwarzenegger could revive their party the way another actor turned politician, Ronald Reagan, did when he got into the Governor's race 37 years ago. But now they fear that dream is slipping away. The campaign that got off to a brilliant start on the Tonight show is becoming themeless and error prone. "They're flubbing this thing big time," says a longtime G.O.P. strategist. Former Los Angeles mayor Richard Riordan, who decided not to enter the race when Schwarzenegger got in, has urged...
DIED. RAND BROOKS, 84, actor best known, to his dismay, for playing Charles Hamilton, the nerdy first husband of Scarlett O'Hara who goes off to war only to die of illness in Gone With the Wind; in Santa Ynez, Calif. Brooks, who also appeared in numerous westerns and played sidekick Lucky Jenkins in the Hopalong Cassidy movies, called his role in Wind "asinine," saying, "I wanted to be more macho...