Word: actorisms
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...don’t know what it’s like to be chased by dinosaurs, or to fight in a war, we instead cut an onscreen character down to size, distill what we can relate to, and decide whether it matches our experiences or imaginings. Thus, the actor who comes off as most familiar to us is the most successful. It’s the utter defiance of this convention that makes Frank Langella’s portrayal of Richard Nixon so wholly fascinating, and by extension, makes “Frost/Nixon” a mesmerizing film...
...attending summer programs at New York University’s Lee Strasberg Theatre and Film Institute and the Yale School of Drama, Bohrer felt he had the tools to start writing his own pieces. “Knowing how to analyze and break down a script as an actor really made me feel ready to try my hand at writing,” he says. He began work on the content for “Slipping Away” in a creative playwriting class at Harvard, an experience which he sees as invaluable to his work. “Having...
DIED Because of hundreds of roles in TV, film and theater, character actor Robert Prosky, 77, had one of those "I know that guy" faces. He put it to good use with parts in the TV drama Hill Street Blues, the film Mrs. Doubtfire and the play Glengarry Glen Ross...
...this for an Agatha Christie plotline: performing on stage inside Vienna's Burgtheater, one of Europe's oldest and grandest, an actor takes a knife to his throat in his character's desperate attempt at suicide. As audience applause fills the opulent theater, blood pours from the actor's neck. But something's not right. Buckling and staggering his way off stage, the actor collapses to the floor. That's because the knife, and the harm that it's done, are both tragically real...
...Unfortunately for Daniel Hoevels, a 30-year-old actor from Hamburg, those pages from a murder-mystery came to life last Saturday night during a performance at the Burgtheater of Mary Stuart, Friedrich Schiller's play about the wretched life of Mary Queen of Scots. Rushed to the nearby Lorenz Bohler hospital having sliced through skin and fat tissue but thankfully not his main artery, Hoevels was fortunate to survive. "Just a little deeper," said Wolfgang Lenz, a doctor who treated him, "and he would have been drowning in his own blood." (See the Top 10 oddball news stories...