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...sentenced to community service. Danny is assigned to mentor Augie (Christopher Mintz-Plasse), an awkward teen obsessed with live-action role-playing, while Wheeler’s charge is Ronnie (Bobb’e J. Thompson), a precocious but foul-mouthed youngster. Both young actors bring impressive energy to their roles. As the shy and socially inept Augie, Mintz-Plasse calls to mind his best-known role as McLovin’ in “Superbad.” Yet he still manages to make Augie unique and remarkably endearing. Thompson, on the other hand, challenges every notion of cuteness...
There is an intuitive bias when judging the cinematic merit of films that feature the last shining moments of a dearly loved star—in the case of “Soul Men,” comedy king Bernie Mac. The death of the lead actor threatens to overtake much of the film’s content, unintentionally confining it to the rose-colored domain of a tribute; a funeral with popcorn and sticky floors. This is not to say that movies with recently departed stars are only well-received for this reason. “Dark Knight...
Jason R. Vartikar-McCullough ’11 is not just a triple threat. As an actor, director, playwright, painter, and costume and set designer, he’s a far more multifarious artistic entity. He started his theater career at the age of six with an appearance on “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood,” and he was extensively involved in community and professional theater throughout high school. Despite his numerous theatrical accomplishments, Vartikar-McCullough says, “Theater was never my focus; it was always very much visual art.” It?...
...concave glass ceiling of the enormous warehouse he’s purchased to stage the piece. The set design becomes more elaborate as time goes on, evolving along with the piece into a façade-metropolis, where Caden retreats from the outside world. He even finds an actor to play himself.Kaufman’s work has always defied classification. The internalized aspects of scripts like “Being John Malkovich” or “Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,” as well as the overt absurdity of those internal structures as they...
Bebe Neuwirth is one of a kind these days. She’s a talented singer, actor, and dancer, or a “triple threat” as they call it in the business. “She represents a very specific tradition that is becoming rarer and rarer...a standard of excellence,” said Thomas Lee, a program manager for the Learning From Performers program at the Office for the Arts, which organized Neuwirth’s visit to Harvard last week. To be sure, Neuwirth has been honored for excellence in different areas...