Word: actorly
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Robert De Niro is still fuming over his run-in with a French judge after the actor's name was found in an address book seized in a prostitution-ring inquiry. "I never paid for a woman in my life," De Niro told the newspaper Le Monde, adding that he would never return to France and would tell his friends to stay away, too. He also said he would boycott the Cannes Film Festival and send back the Legion of Honor (one of France's highest civilian decorations) that he was awarded at last year's festival. Later...
...actor would have mapped out this road to celebrity. But jaunty, reckless Burt Reynolds followed it, becoming the No. 1 box-office attraction for five straight years (1978-82) and, quite possibly, the zeitgeist star of his generation. You know what? This still is his generation. Last week, the day before he turned 62, Reynolds copped an Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role as the porno patriarch in Boogie Nights...
...Boogie Nights auteur Paul Thomas Anderson says, Reynolds was more than "the coolest guy on the planet"; in Deliverance and Starting Over, "Burt also had great chops as an actor." The athletic grace, caged intensity and wounded dignity are on display in Boogie Nights, but so is Reynolds' status as '70s icon--once tarnished, now burnished...
...resurgent career. "I'm finally choosing a role for the right reason. It's not about the location--Jamaica? I'll take it--or the leading lady. It's about the words. I know I'll never be No. 1 again, but I'll be a working actor. And this time, I'll be a grownup. It's time. We have a saying in the South: 'No man's a man until his father tells him he is.' Well, mine never told me, and that was a problem...
Even for Burt Reynolds--once and forever movie star, icon and damn fine actor--there are things in life besides an Oscar...